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Universal Credit sanction
Care leaver has been sanctioned for 237 days at £8.70 per day. The period is for 30/12/21 until 10/08/22. This is now being applied. He missed a requirement to attend JCP appointment on 30/12/21. He received notificaiton on his journal on 10/01/22 that a sanction had been applied to his claim and that he needed to complete the action or the sanction will continue to increase in duration. I think the original sanction would have been only 7 days if he had completed the action at the time. However, he still continued to receive standard living and housing costs despite this at the time. On 19/04/22 rececived notificaiton, all payments were stopped and this applied from 17/03/22, and then he received another notification that only housing costs will be paid as he then went into custody from 17/03/22.
On 10/08/22, young person leaves a note on journal stating that he is now out of custody from 03/08/22. Only housing costs are now being paid, and payments for standard living allowance will not be paid until he has met with a work coach. Having checked the journal, there is no other contact with any work coach during the period 30/12/21 until custody, only being sent job offers. He was not in employment. He completed the action to the missed meeting on 30/12/21 in October 2022 on the journal but said he could not recall why he missed the meeting as it was too far back and he then had to meet a work coach to get back in payment, only then not to get any payments due to the sanction.
Any advice? His personal advisor will ask for a mandatory reconsideration but wanted to now what is best to put in regards to this
Thanks
This sounds like an Open Ended sanction in force until the Work Search Requirement has been satisfied. The DWP calculation is incorrect as the WS Requirement ends on the day of imprisonment.
ADM Chapter E3 provides further guidance on prisoners.
1 UC Regs, reg 2(1); 2 R(I) 9/75
J3196 A prisoner must not have a work search requirement imposed on them and the claimant also does
not have to be able and willing to immediately take up work or attend an interview.
.1 UC Regs, reg 99(3)(b)
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