Question reference: S6W-07137
- Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: 8 March 2022
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Current status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 22 March 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what contact during this parliamentary session it has had with the Department for Work and Pensions regarding the impact of social security sanctions in Scotland.
Answer
Since the start of this parliamentary session the Scottish Government has written to the UK Government on three separate occasions regarding a number of different issues with the Universal Credit system. The Scottish Government is very concerned that since the DWP reintroduced conditionality, including sanctions, the number of hardship payments have increased substantially. The Scottish Government will continue to call on the UK Government to make Universal Credit a system that works for people and not against them.