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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

I was told that word of mouth will not be accepted for job search, that now you have to give the adviser company names? and people I spoke to.

where is the above? in the regulations and when did this come in?

is this true yes or no please stay on the topic.

do you now have give the company names you applied too and the people names you talk to as a job search so the adviser keeps that information.

jobseekers allowance 1998, jobseekers act 1995

Yours faithfully,

DAVID JAMES

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J Roberts left an annotation ()

What if the people tell you not to reveal their names?

You may be interested in this:

'16. The Secretary of State is, moreover, entitled under regulation 24 to require a claimant to provide a wide range of information/evidence to support his claim or continuing entitlement. The standard fortnightly declaration is only one of many types of further evidence that the Secretary of State may require. If the Secretary of State does require the production of further information or evidence, there is no doubt from the wording of regulation 24 (1) (2) (4) (5) and (7) that a claimant is under a duty to provide it within time scales set out in regulation 24(8) and (9).

17. Failure to comply with requirements under regulation 24 (1) (2) (4) (5) and (7) does not result in automatic cessation of benefit. But the failure to supply the information clearly may raise doubts about whether a claimant satisfies, or continues to satisfy, one or more of the conditions of entitlement to benefit. The consequence of that doubt may be a decision by the Secretary of State not to award, or to terminate, benefit depending on the stage of the entitlement process.

41. At the heart of the matter is the appellant’s view that the Secretary of State had no right to ask him to divulge information about his jobseeking activities.

42. As mentioned earlier, it is possible that a claimant’s refusal to divulge information about his jobseeking activities may indicate that he has no genuine intention to be available for work...'

https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/AAC...

Here is something else you might be interested in:

'25. Before parting with this appeal I wish to touch on one other matter. This concerns the tribunal’s view that under the law there can be no objection in principle to a claimant being required to engage in actively seeking work “as a full-time task”...'

https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/AAC...

DAVID JAMES left an annotation ()

Thanks for the info. so what's the point having a jobseekers agreement?

I never agreed to this in my jobseekers agreement i just agreed on how many searches I should do. a week, its got nothing t do with given company's name. any boy can give any company name then what? makes no sense

J Roberts left an annotation ()

It seems that even if you stick to your agreement, the possibility that you get sanctioned still exists. If this happened, a tribunal might decide that you had fulfilled your agreement despite not providing the information requested. Sadly, people on the right side of the law sometimes get sanctioned.

You may be interested in this:

'What steps must be taken?

9 The first error made by both the adviser and the tribunal is that they applied a negative test, not a positive test. The law imposes a test that asks what the claimant did. They looked at what C did not do, not what he did do.

10 Section 1 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (“the Act”) imposes the requirement that a claimant actively seeks work. Sections 7 of the Act defines the test:

“a person is actively seeking work if he takes in that week such steps as he can reasonably be expected to have to take in order to have the best prospects of securing employment”.

In other words, if asked, a claimant must show what he or she did that week to get work.

11 More detail is set out in regulation 18 of the Regulations. Regulation 18(1) provides:

“… a person shall be expected to have to take more than two steps in any week unless taking one or two steps is all that is reasonable for that person to do in that week.”

This is the benchmark for judging the reasonableness of the claimant’s actions. Regulation 18(2) illustrates (but does not define) this by listing steps that are reasonable for a person to be expected to take.

12 That this is the benchmark is confirmed by the standard wording on the Agreement given to C. He was to record “three weekly jobsearch activities” each week on the back of the form. That is an indication on the form itself that the law does not require him to do everything on his Agreement where, as here, that requires him to undertake significantly more than three activities a week.

13 Further, there is nothing in the Act or the Regulations requiring that a claimant must comply with everything in the Agreement. The reverse is the case. The agreement must comply with the law. To be valid, a jobseeker’s agreement must comply “with the prescribed regulations in force”: section 9(1) of the Act. The pattern of the legislation is that a jobseeker’s agreement must comply with the test of actively seeking work in sections 1(2)(c) and 7 of the Act and regulation 18 of the Regulations and not the other way round.'

https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSSCSC/...

DAVID JAMES left an annotation ()

Thanks for information i appreciate your time and effort you should have your own page so people can donate to you.

I ended up writing to the police and telling them I was being harassed and it happened more than twice, that I complained to the job center but nothing is done. gave the police my complaint letters as evidence.

now they have gone down to the job Centre plus to give the so-called adviser a verbal warning of harassment. i will try and change the adviser. seems they are just trying to sabotage my job seeking so they can sanction me again for no reason.

but thanks for your time and effort. may god bless you 1000 fold

J Roberts left an annotation ()

Here is a detailed decision you may also be interested in:

"What constitutes ‘actively seeking employment’ and who has to prove what? [issues (d) and (e)] " (para 26):

RL v SSWP (JSA) [2017] UKUT 282 (AAC)

https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/AAC...

DAVID JAMES left an annotation ()

Thanks for your time effort presenting this information it is very helpful

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Dear David James,

I am writing in response to your request for information, received 11th
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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

by law, the authority should normally have responded promptly and by 10 December 2021
I was told that word of mouth will not be accepted for job search, that now you have to give the adviser company names? and people I spoke to.

where is the above? in the regulations and when did this come in?

is this true yes or no please stay on the topic.

do you now have give the company names you applied too and the people names you talk to as a job search so the adviser keeps that information.

jobseekers allowance 1998, jobseekers act 1995

Yours faithfully,

DAVID JAMES

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I am writing in response to your request for information, received 24th
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