The SNP has called on the Department for Work and Pensions to scrap benefits sanctions
The party's social justice spokesperson David Linden asked the UK Government why it had not scrapped the practice in the House of Commons on Monday afternoon.
Linden criticised this move, saying that the assessments could now be "far more restrictive" than before.He said: "The new health and disability paper introduces the new Universal Credit health element through PIP that could be far more restrictive than work capability assessments. Junior Work and Pensions minister Tom Pursglove said: "I think that these are genuinely common sense reforms that reflect the feedback that we received from disabled people from their representative policy and we will work with them to make sure that we get this right.
"We think that the right way of dealing with that and supporting that employment is to work constructively with them with plans that work, meeting their circumstances, meeting their needs. That's what the budget announcements are all about."
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