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An eye-watering 622,000 payments have been stopped by the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ). A staggering number on DWP benefits have seen Universal Credit payments cut or stopped in the past 17 months.

622,000 people were sanctioned between February 2024 and July 2025, data shows. Over 561,630 claimants were penalised for not attending mandatory interviews with work coaches at Jobcentres.

18,900 had their payments cut for missing employment programmes. And Labour Party and DWP figures show 9,380 were sanctioned for not providing a valid reason for quitting a job, with the latest sanction rate at five per cent for claimants.

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