90-minute webinar, Tuesday 21st April 2026, 11:00am – 12:30pm
Overview
Universal Credit (UC) sanctions can mean losing 100% of a person’s standard allowance—often with serious, lasting effects for claimants and their families. This focused webinar will equip you to identify, prevent, and challenge inappropriate Universal Credit sanction decisions.
Questions/topics covered
- How to recognise different types of benefit sanctions
- Understanding the administrative and the conditionality earnings thresholds and how they work for couples and individuals
- Practical strategies for preventing sanctions before they occur
- How DWP makes UC sanction decisions—and how to effectively challenge a wrong decision
Join us to build practical confidence in supporting claimants, learn up-to-date best practice, and get your questions answered by Will Hadwen and Kate Anstee.
Methods of delivery
This webinar is a live event, delivered online via zoom.
Intended audience
Welfare rights advisers, support workers, case managers, and anyone helping working-age people with benefits. This webinar is at an update level. A good working knowledge of the benefits system is assumed.
What you will need
Participants will need a Wi-Fi connection and a suitable device to access the internet. Prior to the event, participants will receive an email with a link which they should use to join the event.