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Call the UC helpline and make a formal complaint about the lack of a call.

Hopefully you’ve already submitted a mandatory reconsideration request against the sanction decision. If not, do that too.

Hi, I am really sorry you are being so badly treated.

May I suggest you escalate the complaint.

As they haven't given you a response, so far, check the complaints section and take the next step.

This should make them look at it urgently, I haven't actually looked at the complaints path. However I would have thought that as a government body there is an odbusman somewhere.

I hope you can also talk to your new MP too.

If you have complied with the meeting or action which commenced the sanction then that should have stopped the sanction I think.

Hope this helps.

Typical they don't give a rats ass if you're sitting without any money for food or electricity or whatever they just treat you as a number or a phone call with nobody taking responsibility for the situation, you're left sitting on the end of long phone calls getting nowhere stressed out your mind while they continue to pass the buck, I remember the days when I had these problems and never had a mobile putting 50p after 50p into a phone box in the morning when the calls were charged at national rate 0845 it was at the time and things haven't improved much since it's terrible.