All is not well as far as Britain’s welfare system is concerned.
A quarter of Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants have been punished for abusing the benefits system over the past five years.
The scale of the problems in Britain’s welfare system has been exposed in a report warning the government is spending millions of pounds more checking up on claimants than it is clawing back in penalties.
Use of sanctions varies ‘substantially’ across the country and there is little evidence they are effective, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).
Over 1 million unemployed benefits claimants have to meet certain conditions, such as showing they are looking for work, to receive their payments.
