So, if she's been sanctioned it means she is expected by the job centre to get a job. Fact.
She will have been notified she's being sanctioned, and why. Fact.
She can appeal the sanction. Fact.
She's playing up to guilt trip ste into paying for her do ups. She'll be dry crying and begging online all month, if she's doing well with getting money she'll be obviously high.
Infuriating makes it so hard for people struggling through circumstances beyond their control, or people trying to change, improve. Still, well on her way to losing the bungalou, she'll eventually work out calling the police on ste and getting him jailed cuts off her money and his robbing skills.