On the 10th May 2019 Amber Rudd announced to the nation that she was changing the DWP sanctions regime to ensure future sanctions are proportionate. To that end, she is abandoning the ‘rarely used’ (she says) 3-year sanction and, in the future, the longest length of a sanction will be 6 months. A sanction means … Continue reading Amber Rudd announces max period of government enforced starvation of only 6 months