Guardian
•Business
Business & Economics
84% Informative
Department for Work and Pensions ordered to release 'sensitive' research into sanctions.
The study was commissioned in 2019 after MPs found sanctions had negative effect on claimants' health.
Ministers have claimed sanctions focus the minds of claimants on work discipline.
But academic evidence shows sanctions are ineffective and more likely to make people impoverished, unwell and less likely to work.
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