{"id":4106,"date":"2018-11-07T11:36:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T11:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=4106"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:13:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:13:37","slug":"cruel-benefits-system-must-be-overhauled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2018\/11\/07\/cruel-benefits-system-must-be-overhauled\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cruel&#8217; benefits system must be overhauled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Work and Pensions Select Committee has now joined the list of agencies, including the National Audit Office, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Trussell Trust, who point out that benefits sanctions are \u2018pointless and cruel\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>See the University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/19855\/expert-comment-cruel-benefits-system-must-be-overhauled\">News Centre<\/a> for Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby&#8217;s reponse to an\u00a0MPs report criticising benefit sanction schemes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Work and Pensions Select Committee has now joined the list of agencies, including the National Audit Office, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Trussell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2018\/11\/07\/cruel-benefits-system-must-be-overhauled\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":4094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43783,124,139988],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4109,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions\/4109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}