The National Audit Office (NAO) are currently undertaking a study to examine whether the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is achieving value for money from its administration of benefit sanctions.
This includes how benefit sanctions fit with the intended aims and outcomes of DWP's wider working age employment policy, whether sanctions are being implemented in line with policy and whether use of sanctions is leading to the intended outcomes for claimants. Disability Rights UK has submitted evidence to this study