The work and pensions select committee's report comes only weeks after some of the UK's major churches revealed through data, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, that people who receive the sickness and disability benefit are being sanctioned at a rate of more than 100 per day, for mainly being late or not turning up for an appointment.
The cross-party of MPs on the select committee says the current system doesn't give Job Centre Plus employees "clear guidance" on the level of support vulnerable groups need in order to fulfil their benefit conditions.
It wants the next Government to commission a review to investigate whether sanctions are being applied "appropriately, fairly and proportionately".
Labour MP Dame Anne Begg who chairs the Commons' work and pensions committee said there was "clearly a connection" between the rise in the number of people becoming reliant on foodbanks, which are often operated by churches, and the extension of sanctions from a week to a month.
Speaking on Premier's 'News Hour', she said: "Sanctions have always existed in the benefits system but these sanctions are for much longer periods. So the initial one can be for a month rather than as in the previous regime it was just for a week."
The Trussell Trust, the Christian based charity, which runs a network of over 400 UK foodbanks, says that the number of people helped by their foodbanks in the first half of the 2014-15 financial year is 38% higher than numbers helped during the same period last year.
492,641 people were given three days' food and support, including 176,565 children, between April and September 2014, compared to 355,982 during same period in previous year.
Representing the UK churches, Paul Morrison, Public Issues Policy Adviser, Methodist Church in an interview with Premier said: "The Department says in its own documents that somebody who has their benefits removed for a month is likely to undergo a deterioration of health, but that's alright.
"It says... they are likely to undergo a deterioration of health because they have been punished for being late, how can that be fair or just?"
Premier has requested a response from the Department for Work and Pensions and it awaiting a reply.
Labour MP Dame Anne Begg:
Paul Morrison, Methodist Church:
