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See below and attached. Latest sanctions stats from David, with our grateful thanks. Please share. Best Mo "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter." Martin Luther-King Jr Mo Stewart Disability studies researcher Author of 'Cash Not Care: the planned demolition of the UK welfare state'. New Generation Publishing 2016 <https://www.mostewartresearch.co.uk> https://www.mostewartresearch.co.uk <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mo_Stewart/publications> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mo_Stewart/publications *** The contents of this email are intended for the recipient only and may be confidential. Permission is not given for this information to be published, forwarded or distributed further. *** From: David Webster [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 06 September 2018 16:46 Subject: Briefing on DWP benefit sanctions statistics, Aug 2018 Dear Colleague I attach a briefing on the latest DWP sanctions statistics release, made on 14 August. Here are the key points: * In July the number of UC claimants passed one million, of whom 685,000 were subject to conditionality. * Methodological problems with the DWP's statistics are making it more difficult to extract meaningful information from them. Nevertheless the best estimate is that the overall UC sanction rate is now about 4% per month before challenges. The JSA sanction rate appears to have bottomed out at just over 0.5% per month before challenges. The rate for ESA has now fallen to about 0.1% before challenges, below that for lone parents on IS, at about 0.25%. The crossover point between ESA and IS was actually in April 2017 but it is now clear that this is a firm trend. It suggests that DWP has been influenced by the particularly heavy criticism which has been aimed at ESA sanctions. The rate for IS claimants other than lone parents is very low at 0.01% per month before challenges. * A very approximate estimate of the total number of sanctions on all four benefits (UC, JSA, ESA & IS) before challenges in the year ended April 2018 would be 318,000. * In all UC conditionality groups, there is a downward trend in the proportion of claimants under sanction at a point in time, although it remains high for the unemployed, at 6%-8%. * There is a relentless rise in the length of UC sanctions and even on the DWP's understated measure the mean length is now about 12 weeks. In the latest quarter (March to May 2018), almost a third of UC sanctions were over 3 months and one in eight was over 6 months. I would like to express thanks to the many people who have told me how valuable they find these briefings. I would like to make them even more useful if I can, so if you have any suggestions for varying the contents or format, please do let me know. With best wishes Dr David Webster Honorary Senior Research Fellow Urban Studies School of Social and Political Sciences University of Glasgow Email: [log in to unmask] Webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/davidwebster/ Home phone 0141-633 2366 Mobile 07804 315911 ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.