How much money do u get if u get sanctioned single rate over 25

Sanctions

If you fail to meet any of the responsibilities that you agreed in your Claimant Commitment without good reason, you may receive a reduction in your benefit payment, known as a sanction.

We will inform you how long the sanction lasts when we tell you about our decision. If we ask you to complete an activity to limit the length of a sanction, how long the sanction lasts will depend on how quickly you complete that activity.

There are 4 sanction levels:

• higher
• medium
• low
• lowest

The period of reduction will increase if you fail to meet requirements multiple times in each level.

Higher level

You will be sanctioned for 91 days (13 weeks) for your first higher level sanction and 182 days (26 weeks) for your second and each subsequent higher level sanction in any 364 day period if you:

• have to meet the ‘work search requirement’, and you fail to apply for a particular job when told to do so

• have to meet the ‘work availability requirement’, and you refuse a job offer

• leave work or reduce your hours of work, whether voluntarily or due to ‘misconduct’ (while claiming Universal Credit or just before your claim)

There are special rules for how long your sanction will last if it is for leaving work before you claimed Universal Credit.

Medium level

You will be sanctioned for 28 days for your first medium level sanction in any 364 day period, or 91 days for your second if you:

• have to meet the ‘work search requirement’, and you fail to take all reasonable actions to find paid work or increase your earnings from work

• have to meet the ‘work availability requirement’ and you are not available to start work or attend interviews

Low level

They last until you do whatever you were sanctioned for failing to do, plus 7 days for your first low level sanction in any 364 day period, 14 days for your second, or 28 days for your third if you:

• fail to attend or take part in a work-focused interview, and a lowest sanction level does not apply

• fail to attend or take part in a training course

• fail to take a specific action to get paid work, or to increase your earnings from work

Lowest level

These apply if you only have to meet the work-focused interview requirement, and you fail to attend or take part in a work-focused interview, they last until you take part in one.

A sanction reduces the amount of your Universal Credit standard allowance (the amount of Universal Credit that does not include extra money for things like children and housing costs) being paid by up to 100% for a single claimant or up to 50% for each member of a couple (a lesser % is applied to those not in the all work related requirements conditionality group).

Reduction of sanctions from Universal Credit

You cannot have 2 sanctions at once, however sanctions can run back-to-back. When you are sanctioned, it is usually your next payment, or series of future payments of Universal Credit, that are affected.

Sanction reductions are applied after taking earnings and unearned income into account. If there is insufficient Universal Credit remaining after this to take the full sanction amount, the sanction reduces the award to nil and is treated as having been made in full. You will remain entitled to Universal Credit and will therefore maintain access to ‘passported’ benefits such as free prescriptions.

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If you do not agree with a Universal Credit sanction: You can ask for a review within a month of the date of a decision, we call this a mandatory reconsideration. You must write to the department that gave you the decision (the address to write to will be on the decision letter) and say why you think the decision is wrong, providing any evidence