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Retrospective sanctions applied due to a new court decision?
We have had a client call in today, she has had a letter from the Jobcentre which says she is being sanctioned for something she did, or failed to do, back in January. The letter says that due to a new court decision, the DWP is now allowed to apply sanctions retrospectively.
Nobody has heard of this, and the letter doesn’t say what the court case is: no reference, no title. Has anybody else come across this?
(We are carrying out a survey about sanctions from next week, but like most places, we get few JSA claimants coming to us to complain about sanctions, so it’s difficult to get information about what’s going on, and just how bad, or even unlawful, local decision making is.)