jobcentre solihull unfair sanction

If you feel you've been treated incorrectly, you can make an appeal

Yep.

They are aiming to sanction as many people as possible. They have targets to reduce the number of job seekers and how do you do that in a recession? You sanction.

I have been threatened with sanctions about 3 times in 5 months and every time I have pointed to my Job Seekers Agreement with the threat of making a formal complaint which gets them to back down.

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has had any problems with solihull jobcentre. When I first signed on it took them 2-3 months to proccess my claim due to the fact that im on a part time hnc electrical and took a student loan out. i have also had conflicting veiws on the amount of voluntary work i should be doing. there have been a number of undisclosed problems, but now they have issued me with a 4 week sanction even though i have done nothing wrong and have at the very least met there requirements. I told them i applied for 5 jobs and 2 other activities. I actually applied to 6 jobs but forgot to write the last one down. i am also going to the local mp. they shouldn't be allowed to stop jsa for no reason, i have heard other people being took off jsa while waiting around there too, they also seem to be focussing on retail and food industry too even if people have trade skills or experience in other work environments.
is anyone else having these problems?

May I ask what is your minimum requirement for activities each week? My brother's is 30 so your 7 activities does seem quite low.

Give me a job and I will happily get out of JCP, every time I need to go there, it's like attending funeral for me.

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has had any problems with solihull jobcentre. When I first signed on it took them 2-3 months to proccess my claim due to the fact that im on a part time hnc electrical and took a student loan out. i have also had conflicting veiws on the amount of voluntary work i should be doing. there have been a number of undisclosed problems, but now they have issued me with a 4 week sanction even though i have done nothing wrong and have at the very least met there requirements. I told them i applied for 5 jobs and 2 other activities. I actually applied to 6 jobs but forgot to write the last one down. i am also going to the local mp. they shouldn't be allowed to stop jsa for no reason, i have heard other people being took off jsa while waiting around there too, they also seem to be focussing on retail and food industry too even if people have trade skills or experience in other work environments.
is anyone else having these problems?

The requirements are to apply for 4 advertising jobs a fortnight and do 2 other things to improve prospects and visit there poorly con
structed website 5 times . I also have electrical qualification and carpen
try but they push for retail

The requirements are to apply for 4 advertising jobs a fortnight and do 2 other things to improve prospects and visit there poorly con
structed website 5 times . I also have electrical qualification and carpen
try but they push for retail

30?

Mine is 7. It was 9 at first but then my agreement was altered.

The activity number seems to be completely random depending on which advisor processes the claim.

Still more in not necessary difficult. You just record in more detail. For example I only normally put "Checked job centre website" when really I checked their website and Reed, Monster... etc so the higher number would be easy to increase to but would simply waste my time.

I am always amazed at how rude they are. My advisor is great. However, I have to go in to sign on every week (I don't know why this is a recent change) and I only see him once every two weeks.

The last sign on I had was with an idiot who advised me to remove my MSc and BA off my job applications. I got into a rather long and loud (polite) argument.

Their site is awful isn't it. I actually made a written complaint about it and was told I obviously wasn't using it properly and suggested I go on a basic IT course. I did a search for jobs within a 40mile radius and it was bringing up jobs 500miles away, jobs 2 weeks past their closing date etc.

Some of them behave with us like if we get JSA that means we can be treated like trash I only don't get one thing, why my adviser kept referring me to useless courses while recently I saw better courses on their system, like accountancy, office admin, business admin... Why the hell those courses are on their system if they don't refer people on them..

Oh and about the website, yes, their website is just awful! Job ads come in mixed order by date, so usually I find half of newest jobs in the beginning and then at the very end... There's no option to upload a cover letter on their website which is again awful. They don't remove the job ads that were posted in January.... Yes and with the distance, often I get jobs that are like the distance of Liverpool..

Did you make the complaint online or in person? Someone really needs to fix their website, it gets really annoying, half of job ads don't have 'apply' button and you have to e-mail them..

I e-mailed a written complaint.

Hmm, I would probably need to do the same as if we won't point them out, they won't do anything to fix their silly website. What is the point to make a website if it doesn't function properly.