A NATIONAL day of action against benefit sanctions including mass demonstrations at jobcentres is being planned, Unite Community revealed yesterday.

Campaign groups across Britain are organising to support the events on March 19.

Among the groups organising support is Leeds-based Hands Off Our Homes.

A spokesman said: “Could this be the year that groups and campaigns all over the country come together to demand an end to welfare cuts, homelessness, sell-offs of housing and public services, poverty wages and attacks on the sick, disabled and unemployed?

“The signs are that it may be. Tenants in London are joining together to resist soaring rents, sell-offs to corporate landlords and the elimination of affordable housing across entire boroughs.”