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<p>The Department works to design and deliver a compassionate approach that supports
claimants on Universal Credit and other benefits.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has
not made an assessment of the potential merits of a moratorium on benefit sanctions
during the school summer holidays for a) low-income and (b) single-unit families,
as we are in the process of reviewing the effect of sanctions on work incentives.</p><p>
</p><p>There are a number of measures designed to help the claimant’s financial situation.
Hardship payments are available to eligible claimants who will face hardship as a
result of a sanction. Additionally, we have recently announced that the length of
the maximum single sanction any benefit claimant could face will be reduced from three
years to six months.</p>
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