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To: Iain Duncan-Smith
Make JSA/ESA payable from day 1.
Reform the rules regarding JSA and ESA claims to make them payable from the first day of the claim.
Why is this important?
As of October 2014, the Govt. changed the rules to disallow the first 7 days of any new JSA/ESA claim.
As part of a JSA claim, the claimant is required to spend 30 hours per week searching for work.
This must therefore constitute a 'job' in it's very description.
When working, an employer would not legally be entitled to disregard your first 7 days work and class them as un-payable work days, so why should the DWP (who, when you sign-on, surely become your 'employer') be allowed to get away with it ?.
