Abstract
This chapter starts by asking why benefit sanctions are not a matter of greater public concern. It describes the success of Ken Loach’s film I Daniel Blake but contrasts the generally positive response of critics to the film with the generally negative attitudes of the public towards benefit claimants that have been revealed by the British Social Attitudes Survey. It concludes that, because those who are subject to sanctions in the UK are blamed and regarded as responsible for what has happened to them, and because there is no organisation that has succeeded in drawing attention to the injustice associated with benefit sanctions and to the suffering they cause, there is relatively little public recognition that they constitute a social problem.
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