Twitter Takes Down The DWP After News Of Fake Benefit Sanctions In Brilliant #fakeDWPstories Hashtag

Just found #fakeDWPstories hashtag - can satire succeed where parliamentary accountability & media scrutiny of @DWP have failed?

— Martin McKee (@martinmckee) August 18, 2015

happy to have been sanctioned by #DWP Going hungry for 4 weeks & facing eviction were experiences that look great on my CV #FakeDWPstories

— Chris John Ball (@cjball_london) August 18, 2015

After my DWP sanction & my mind-bending hunger-induced trance well, my multi-platinum selling album wrote itself really. #fakeDWPstories

— Duncan Gill (@duncanhaygill) August 18, 2015

Sanctions & benefit cap made me realise how selfish I've been eating 3 slices of bread a day & expecting State to pay for it #fakeDWPstories

— Alex (@Lad87Red) August 18, 2015

'Since the DWP stopped my benefits I've realised that food, like hope, is a luxury I can't afford.' #fakeDWPstories

— paulusthewoodgnome (@woodgnomology) August 18, 2015

Being sanctioned meant I couldn't afford a razor so now I'm a hipster who's running a cereal breakfast cafe in Shoreditch #fakeDWPstories

— Crispin Mount (@CrispinMount) August 18, 2015

I was sanctioned for being late, so I built a rickshaw from scrap wood & pram wheels & gave rides. Now I own a bus company. #fakeDWPstories

— Archduke of Bohemia (@thatguyinprague) August 18, 2015

When the DWP sanctioned me, I was so relieved not to have to decide what to cook for dinner & just ate what I found in bins #FakeDWPStories

— Paul Kavanagh (@weegingerdug) August 18, 2015

After I was sanctioned my morale was boosted so much I started my own 3d printing company producing Hovercrafts #fakeDWPstories

— Bella Caledonia (@bellacaledonia) August 18, 2015

"Without a letter telling me I have to attend the work programme without fail I would have never come out of my coma" #fakeDWPstories

— Jon Swindon (@swindon81) August 18, 2015

The 3 flights of stairs I had to climb for my Atos assessment were the spur I needed to ditch my wheelchair and walk again #fakeDWPstories

— Kevin Turvey (@KevinTurveyRIP) August 18, 2015

Sanctions helped me be more adventurous about trying new food. (Now that I have to raid my neighbours bins for scraps) #fakeDWPstories

— helene hansen (@helenebells) August 18, 2015

before being sanctioned, I never knew the joys of being a male prostitute in my local public toilets, thank you IDS #fakeDWPstories

— George Bernard Shaw (@Melonhead999) August 18, 2015