Clear and Concise Information on Sanctions Muddle?

Hallo Please can we have some clear and concise information on The Sanctions muddle?
It seems that a previous poster and myself are still in the dark about the exact modus operandi of ESA Sanctions?
In The ESA introductory letter the wording section re:Sanctions is ambiguous and unclear.
A previous poster asserts that The Job Centre could provide no further information and that "it was up to The Decision Maker".
They also stated that they had received "No money"at all since Sanctions were imposed.
This is at odds with the small amount of information I have gleaned from the ESA letter
which describes Sanctions as consisting of 2 different components:
basically 1)a reduction in ESA by the amount of personal component indefinetly
2)a period of weeks in which no ESA is paid at all.
Its all very confusing and one has to pick wording very carefully to be understood on this topic.
It seems sanctions is a penalty of some weeks without any money followed or preceded by "Half rations"of ESA(Personal Component of 61 pw removed if necessary for a whole year until ESA WRAG expires.
But other sources suggest "no interview attendance"no further ESA at all until further notice.
Please can you try to explain this for us all as its very stressful antiipating Sanctions
in my own case....?
Great Thanks

Hallo Gordon,Thanks for this reply to my query of last night.Its interesting that The Advisor is a different advisor ie.a Work Programme one to the JC+ one.
Regarding the previous awnsers to this topic I do remember them but am Im afraid suffering a "mental block"in understanding the phrasing used in the ESA Sanction letter & its referring to it by you in the previous response.
The sticking point is that I observe that most of the Posters on here are yet to be at Sanctions Stage as so many topics are about transfers from IB,ATOS upcoming Medicals etc.
So I feel very much like Im operating in the unknown as theres not too much other than the few lines "The Official Version"quoted on here.
The challenge is I cant make head nor tail of this Official Version.
It may be deliberately obtuse in order to give the DWP leeway to interpret it as they see fit.
What would be nice would be if an explanation can be posted along the following framework?
1)A Claimant refuses to attend their initial JC+ interview.
2)They get Sanctioned.
3)After this for me its guesswork.But guessing......Claimant receives a letter a few weeks later...
from the Decision maker.....(never seen one of these)....telling them that their ESA benefit
is being/to be affected in some way....again its guesswork.
until such time that they attend the first interview.
4)Whats not clear is how long weekly amounts of their usual ESA Benefit
are witheld or reduced for for in relation to the continued non attendance.
All I am getting is a gobblydook of 1 week,2 weeks,4 weeks,personal Component reduced for all year,just 3 weeks,beforehand,afterwards ,further letters,further inviitations ,more weeks,etc etc..Cany uderstand it all.
And what happens when they refuse to attend anything for the rest of the year?
If its felt that no further awnser can be provided then fine I will just have to wait and see
what happens and will let you know but I feel this issue is going to be increasingly common
as Claimants are put in this position after this years cuts and that a expansive awnser and more eloborate details would be very useful.