London, UK. 6th September 2016. A woman from the Mental Health Resistance Network speaks outside Bromley Job Centre about the position fo staff who are forced to impose sanctions on claimants or be disciplined for missing targets, telling us they were to be denied reading the letter she had delivered. Bromley had the second highest sanction rate in London with a total of 7524 in 2012-4, including many claimants denied benefits for the maximum allowed length of three years. Credit: Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News
London, UK. 6th September 2016. A woman from the Mental Health Resistance Network speaks outside Bromley Job Centre about the position fo staff who are forced to impose sanctions on claimants or be disciplined for missing targets, telling us they were to be denied reading the letter she had delivered. Bromley had the second highest sanction rate in London with a total of 7524 in 2012-4, including many claimants denied benefits for the maximum allowed length of three years. Recently a job centre employee accidentally recorded a conversation with another employee on a claimant's answerphone in which she referred to the claimant as "some scrounging bastard that's popping out kids like pigs". The protest by Bromley & Croydon DPAC, supported by other groups including the Mental Health Resistance Network, Bromley Cuts Concern, Class War and local trade unionists, was part of a nationwide week of action, highlighting the cumulative impact of the cuts on disabled people as the paralympic games are taking place in RIo. Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News
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