Sanctions and passporting?

I’m revising a training course and I’m not sure about this point.  Where someone is sanctioned by a withdrawal of benefit are they treated as still receiving it for passporting purposes.  For example disabled facilities grants are, currently, passported by UC.  If someone is sanctioned would they qualify.  Would there be a difference between a 4 week sanction and a 3 year one?

For some purposes it would be an enormous loss that might not occur if the relevant date was a week later or earlier.

Hi Gareth,

This is a very simplistic view, but does the claimant not remain entitled to benefit when they have been sanctioned, it’s the payability that is affected, therefore passporting would remain unaffected? This is certainly the case for HB as someone who has had their IB JSA claim sanctioned would remain entitled to maximum HB by virtue of passporting via Income based JSA claim, as they still retain entitlement to IB JSA even though it can’t be paid due to the sanction. (Reg 2(3) (a) HB Regs). Not sure whether this remains the same for UC though.

In a sense that’s the question.  Entitlement is one test that’s relevant to some things but, for DFGs for example, the regulations use “in receipt of”.