Petition Stop the monitoring of benefits spending.

Benefit payments are a lifeline. These payments are funded by the public as an insurance against misfortune. The monitoring of these subsistence payments is a gross misuse of public money and an abuse of the public trust. People are entitled to spend their benefits as they choose.

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http://www.thecanary.co/2016/07/13/snooping-on-benefit-recipients-spending-and-is-totally-legal-with-this-phone-app/

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

37 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 37 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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Date closed 22 January 2017
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