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Two real-life accounts of the effect of benefits sanctions

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imageHands up. Iain Duncan Smith leads the Department for Work and Pensions, which fabricated testimonials in a leaflet praising benefits sanctions.Reuters/Toby Melville

The Department for Work and Pensions has admitted that the quotes they presented from two benefit claimants extolling the virtues of sanctions were made up.

The DWP subsequently...

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