Sanctions and work-related requirements

• Online handbooks
• Articles
• Tools and templates
• Further information

Online handbooks

Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook (for subscribers):

• Chapter 46: Universal credit system work-related requirements
• Chapter 47: Universal credit system sanctions
• Chapter 48: Claimant responsibilities: other benefits
• Chapter 49: Sanctions: other benefits

Articles

The most recent articles on sanctions and work-related requirements from our Welfare Rights Bulletin:

• Ever increasing: conditionality and sanctions (February 2024)
• Universal credit: conditionality cranks up (October 2022)
• Hard times: UC hardship payments explained (December 2021)
• Holes in the safety net: benefits and claimant deaths (August 2021)

Tools and templates

Our tools include tools which help you draft mandatory reconsideration requests and help you check your UC work-related requirements (for subscribers):

• Checking your universal credit work-related requirements
• Universal credit sanctions: mandatory reconsideration
• Migration from ESA to UC: work-related requirements and UC elements - mandatory reconsideration request

Check our appeal submission templates and judicial review pre-action protocol template letters:

• Universal credit: tools and templates - work-related requirements and sanctions

Further information

• Universal credit and sanctions