Petition Introduce a 3 strike policy before benefits can be sanctioned.

The use of automatic benefit sanctions is littered with examples of hardship incurred to those being sanctioned. There is no evidence that automatic benefit sanctions "help" people into work. It takes time to find a job, however anybody can have an emergency which causes them to miss an appointment.

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http://tfne.ws/1him6Lp - "Half of all DWP sanctions wrongly imposed"
http://bit.ly/1Yex8Tr - "Warning vulnerable families are being pushed into poverty by wrongly imposed benefit sanctions"
http://bit.ly/1TYFXki - "A list of completely ridiculous benefit sanctions people have experienced"

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18 signatures

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Date closed 8 December 2016
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