This could also impact other state benefits and recently, the Government was pushed on potential changes to the sanction system.
Chris Stephens, the Scottish National Party MP for Glasgow South West, recently asked the following question in Parliament: "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress her Department has made on plans to roll out yellow card warnings in place of immediate benefit sanctions."
Today, this question was answered by Mims Davies, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the DWP.
She said: "The Department committed to look at processes to give claimants a written warning, instead of a sanction, for a first sanctionable failure to attend a Work-Search Review.
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