for and actively seeking work and sign the Agreement, the benefit will be suspended until the claimant completes and signs the agreement. Once the agreement has been signed, a Decision Maker will decide how much of the claim should be backdated, if any. Failing to attend a Jobcentre appointment: the claimant may be fined 4 or 13 weeks' income. Voluntarily leaving work or refusing a notified vacancy. The claimant may be sanctioned for up to 13 weeks' or 26 weeks' income in the case of repeated transgressions. Refusing to attend compulsory scheme or failing to comply with Direction. A punishment of 4 weeks' loss of income for the first instance and 13 weeks' for second and subsequent instances. you don’t accept or keep to your Claimant Commitment. you don’t go to a Jobcentre Plus when asked. you turn down a job or training course. you don’t apply for any jobs you’re told about. you don’t take part in any interviews you’re invited to. you don’t go to any training booked for you or take part in employment schemes. By leaving your last job or training without good reason or because of your behaviour. Payment will be stopped for between 4 weeks and 26 weeks. Sanctions have been found to be ineffective in getting claimants into work but do great harm to the claimants, especially to disabled claimants who are disproportionately targeted with sanctions. Criticism of sanctions The charity Oxfam opposed what they consider unfair sanctions The Guardian has listed ten cases of stopped benefits which it regards as either for “trivial reasons” or due to DWP “administrative errors.” The former included three people who were in hospital due to their own sickness or attending a sick partner and a person who went for a job interview instead of attending the job centre. The latter included letters sent by the DWP to the wrong address and people who arrived on time at the job centre but found an unusually long queue. The Independent cites a man who had a heart attack during a work capability assessment and was sanctioned for not completing it. Two cases show reasonably foreseeable consequences for sanctioned diabetic claimants, one resorted to begging for food whilst another who was apparently unable to afford to keep his insulin properly refrigerated was found dead, leading to a parliamentary select committee investigation of sanctions. In the last quarter of 2013