Employment

(asked on 9th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which claimants will be exempt from participating in the supervised jobsearch pilot scheme.


Answered by
Esther McVey Portrait
Esther McVey
Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 14th July 2014

Guidance for Jobcentre Plus staff will say that the following claimants will not be suitable for the supervised jobsearch pilots.

  • Universal Credit claimants
  • New style JSA claimants
  • JSA Credits only claimants
  • Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) claimants
  • Postal claimants
  • Claimants with Special Customer Records (these are held clerically so would present problems in contract management/ tracking for the purposes of the evaluation)
  • Pregnant claimants, who have already produced a MATB1 to the Jobcentre (these will be within 11 weeks of their due date, so will not have time to complete the provision)
  • Anyone currently not required to meet Actively Seeking Employment requirements
  • Those attending Work Choice/ Residential Training Centres
  • 18 year olds Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEETs, eligible for Work Programme at 3 months, would need to be identified for Supervised Jobsearch at day one – work coaches would not have sufficient information)
  • Ex-offenders (eligible for Work Programme from day one)
  • Claimants who are participating in voluntary work and part-time workers (as there are resource implications too large for the pilot, given small number)
  • Claimants for whom travelling to the Supervised Jobsearch provider premises would be outside their daily travel to work time (90 minutes each way unless restrictions have been agreed)
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