You have the most vulnerable in society being hounded for every penny they DON'T have. And then, you have MP's earning £100,000's a year scrounging £700 from the tax payer for...a bed. I'm ashamed of this country. It's truly shocking.

Universal Credit is designed to kill off those not working, its not designed to help anyone. If it was there to help people, then I would love to know how £8.22 a week can help me find a job.

That poor guy who lost his farther ,mother ,and sister my heart goes out to him poor poor guy

A broken system in a broken Nation..

I had a friend who got sanctioned, she was found in her dark cold flat with just cat biscuits to eat, we sent her a food parcel and some cash, she cried so much when she thanked us, something inside me changed at that moment, I realized that the DWP and the government it serves are the enemy, it filled me full of hatred for them, a government that does that to its own citizens doesn't deserve to be in power. I truly believe there is a revolution coming to Britain and those that caused the suffering and the deaths of human beings will be made to pay. Just like a the Nuremberg trials after WW2 the excuse that they were just doing their job will not be acceptable.

How many people over the past 7 years have died as a direct result of benefit sanctions imposed on them by jobcentre staff, a hell of a lot so in my opinion that makes all those job coaches or whatever they are called murderers. They set these people up so they can deliberately stop their money and in many cases leaving the victims with nothing to live on. The staff at the jobcentres are murderers, they have the blood of so many people on their hands i'm surprised they can sleep at night. I wonder if they are haunted by all the victims who have died as a direct result of them setting them up to be sanctioned resulting in them dieing. Surely they know what they're doing is wrong but they're too weak and cowardly to fight back against orders from above, if i ever have to go the jobcentre i'm going to ask the person i see what's it's like to have blood on their hands, blood that can never be washed off no matter how much soap you use!

Scumbags in charge but most people don't care.

I have been practising social research for about 25 years. One of the problems appears to be the poor calibre of the staff working in the offices. They must realise what they are doing is very harmful.

It's so easy for a non-mentally ill person to say put these people back to work. For a start, what employers would be willing to take on someone who is long term unemployed because of their health? Do know a guy who hears voices in his head and has been applying for jobs for the last 2 years with zero success. Once an employer knows about this, they are just not interested. To Geordislassie. Do you judge a book by its cover? Why pass judgement on someone you don't even know?

Green and white stripe envelope on a friday demanding council tax on unemployed people is wrong!

Absolutely sickening

So many vulnerable people are dying. This benefit systems is going totally wrong

the young man has lost his father sister and his mother. shame on this country for not looking after him. what a joke this country has become

My deepest empathies goto the man. Why can't people see that we're one class? These people are my fellow brother and sister within the human race. "Helps people into work". From what I see the system is helping peoples mental and /or physical health deteriate. I myself have suffered from the system. The treatment I recieved from a compliance officer shouting at me like a sargent would to a soldier I had a nervous breakdown infront of everybody. The officer provably lied on a letter saying I'd been sanctioned for not turning up at that appointment. CCTV doesnt lie, I was almost crawling out that day. I was hyperventilating. he may aswel have said ' fit in or f*** off and starve. Better yet hurry up and commit suicide'.

Yes it does exaccerbate physical and mental health problems with heightened anxiety levels. .they did it to me a few times...it can be a big battle..😢

Definitely out of order what happened to that guy. It's quite upsetting that one, he deserves every penny. Not enough information on the £3 lady though, can't you still sign on working 12 hours a week.

The Tories are shameful hounding the vulnerable.

If the husband was disabled she should have been claiming income support...don't understand why she was signing on..

I want to hug Lee tight 💔

This is the Blair, Thatcher, Brown, Cameron, May ...Britain. Help Corbyn Help Us.

3 YEARS???????!!! Are they taking the piss???

People have the right to not work in one job if the Job is making them less money and almost minus per week or month and ask the social for help and look for more work on benefits

How would these mp feel if there money was sanctioned they dont understand with no money how will they feed there families the person who thought that idea must need his wages stopped for 6 weeks see how them would feel

i really feel for that poor gentleman,lee,i myself am an only child,with no wife ,girlfreind or children,i felt i was watching myself,watching this poor bereated chap. i myself lost my dad8 years ago,to a massive heart attack and brain death,and my mum,3 years ago with a massive heart attack and full organ shut down. i wasthe main carerfor them with carers help. i was left alone by the benefits agency,whilst i was a carer,i too like lee,went into very deep severe depression,and was even having suicidal thoughtsafter loosing both my mum and dad.. thank heavens to god ,a doctor recognised my symptoms,and got me treatment, i was just starting to getmyself together,and now,ive got a really cold officous,callous benefits adviser{universal credit},and she has threatened me and effectivly called me a liar to my face. i actually broke down in tears the next day,when i had to take,my fit note back to her,when she wouldnt accept it for not having the correct info on it,my doctor was fuming, i have just got a bad feeling that she is absolutely dying to sanction me,when she can,she is a cold crual heartless person,who seems to be getting of on being crueal,to me and other people, im so exausted with the constant threat and intimidation from her and the system, im starting to be near having another nervous breakdown,i have my appeal soon, hopeit gives me hope,please dont let these thugs beat you,be proud of who you are,and know that you are all good people,who do matter. thankyou and godbless.

she can do better than cleaning.

The Tpries love to say work pays. It doesn't. Wages are not high enough. Pay people properly and they'll work, and be able to afford bus fares etc You can't give someone who doesn't drive a job five miles away, and expect them to pay £40 a week on travel when that's a huge chunk of your wage

If you go to a doctor and he gives you a mis diagnosis or you get bad advice from a surveyor you can sue themmif they have acted negligently. Does the law allow one to sue the DWP if theyre systems have caused phyical or emotional stress?

all we are to the goverment is numbers we dont matter you have to be a big shot to matter

The system sucks. These cutbacks are doing more harm especially with the cost of living crisis and eay the vulnerableare now getting sanctioned. I've been there years ago with claiming between jobs fear of sanctions were hell. Glad I'm now working

Feckin ridiculos that these people are being treated like this,truly shockng to say the least, all people working or not, should be alarmed as you may be next ,hitler iwould be proud of those that instatuded this f,,,,,n uc system,instead of worrying about brexit and all that other shit,its the culling of the poor, and what work as nearly everybody i know is on 16hrs a week and 0 contracts, and to those who are working all i can say is lets hope you dont get laid off or get sick , b ecause this might well be you in 2019, i think all of us working should be crying out to our MPs to get this sorted more than anything else as this is seriously an attack on the working class.

3 year sanction - how is that a fair consequence for anything?

Don't give them the excuse to sanction you. Turn up for appointments, fill in the silly forms, tell them what they want to hear. Beat the system!

Honestly i swear if you dont have mental health issues, these agencies give up giving you mental health issues. I mean HONESTLY!!! How can you kick someone when their already down😢. My son suffers from mental health, and he hasnt had to deal with this. He finds working difficult and has started his own gardening business. I hope the young guy who lost all his family get a huge back pay. I hope he gets better and perhaps thinks about doing his own business. My son has coped alot better mentally doing his own business

Employees need to pay a livable wage And people need to have jobs. Even if that means they lose credit

Not just in Great Britain. Here in Australia Ive had no end of hassles with Centrelink because of my anxiety/post-traumatic stress.Had serious anxiety about appts and panic attacks from non payment that have seen me hospitalised.I am now a full time carer for my gran's partner, and dont have to attend interviews...just on call 24 hrs a day :(

To be honest,this country is finished!It all started with Thatcher,and all the work going to China.Its the young ones i feel sorry for,as theres nothing for them!Im glad i never brought kids into this!!

Never heard of nor do I understand why there’s even a council tax to begin with or a bedroom tax! It’s ludicrous really. You pay x amount monthly for rent. The more bedrooms the higher the rent. Period. A bedroom tax!! Craziness is what it is. Also don’t understand how or why y’all pay for gas and electricity the way you do. In the states. What the rate is per kilowatt hours a year is what you pay on a monthly bill. Same for gas. It’s paid on a monthly bill based off of the current years rate. If you’re late on a month we’re allowed to make payment arrangements on the arrears but still keep our services on. Of course if you’ve not paid for a period of time at all then of course they’ll shut off your services until paid in full. Your system is too complicated and just plain crazy. Council tax or what is known as property tax is paid for by the landlord not the tenants. In social housing your rent includes a small stipend that’s built into your monthly rent. It doesn’t matter here if you have three bedrooms if you use only one as a single person or a couple without children. If say a three bedroom apartment goes for 2,400$ monthly and you can afford that then that’s all you pay. Likewise if on social housing, if you’re single they aren’t going to punish you for having that extra room but you might pay day 50$ more a month in rent. That’s not a sanction. It’s just the rent for that two or three bedroom apartment.

Fiat cash is not worth the paper it's written on. u need 500 quid a week just to get by in the UK. and that's being thrifty

This video makes me feel very sad.💗🧑🏻‍🦼

10:35 needs heart tablets on the dole and smokes. He needs to lose his dole now

Cant find work all have great expectations of you was a kind caring carer but now on these small payments monthly is crippling me

Fascism?

Yes but these people who are advisors and do things at the DWP are educated enough to do that job the people who are claimants are not otherwise they would doing their bloody job to wouldn't they it's common sense so they're trying to talk to people on their wavelength but they are not on their wavelength are they and then they sanction them the most vulnerable people in society,,,,, it is outrageous yes I know they put you on all these courses to learn you computers (for example ) but it never went in at school never mind on a two-week course talking about the weather most of the time .

Giz a giro innit

punish the poor

Why are all these claiming help are all land whales

I think 'mental health harmed by benefit sanctions' is more fitting.

If Hayley is caring for her partner who is disabled, she would get more than£78 a week, so someone is talking B.S. I don't think Lee should have been santioned, poor guy has been through so much. The Government should clearly define those with severe physical or mental health, the strikers and the skivers.

The trouble is theres alot of kids on the street not bothering to work the sancion system is based on them it means other people have to suffer who are genuine making it difficult for everyone

Heart failure and still smoking pffft

These people are infuriating. Deducting what they would have got in benefits from their wages and claiming that adds up to working for nothing? Making a career move of getting onto mentally handicapped sickness benefits? I don't believe the lad with is ridiculous list of cancer victim relatives. Wonder he looked so embarrassed? Did he get paid by the BBC?

2:00 well done for sanctioning this idler nonsense about being disabled. step up to the plate or lose your dole.

They're bone idle, no reason for them to be in this situation its entirely of their own creation. So many people commenting here about the government being at fault, but seem to completely absolve these people of any personal responsibility for their own lives. And as for those that say people have died over benefit sanctions, im calling your bluff and asking you to name them here and now

6:41 jail him for not taking responsibility for his life

He can find a job these people play the system

If you leave a job voluntary, then you have yourself to blame when claiming benefits, not surprised at you being sanctioned, as you brought upon yourself.

sanctioned for not attending a medical you dont know about i mean who can justify that

How about work like the rest of us! Does wonders for your mental health

We all have our sob stories. Unfortunately for us on the minimum wage, we have to also get up out of bed and go to work feeling rotten. That's how these self-pitying people receive their handouts.

How do people get to this level of entitlement? To believe that the government is responsible for you? It is a long-standing, deeply rooted propblem that seems to be ingrained into British society.

Every single person on this video is scamming the crap out of the system.

Bone idle the lot of them....look fit and able to get a JOB

Sorry but if you cannot contribute to society you don't deserve a thing.