“I didn’t want my first #JSA meeting to be in a group session with a G4S guard.”

Originally posted on Same Difference:
With many thanks to Kate Belgrave.

I’d be keen to hear back from anyone who has experience of this:
I spent a couple of hours today talking with someone who is a new JSA claimant in North London. This man started his JSA claim a couple of weeks ago. It’s the first claim he’s made. He filled in an application form online and then was sent a text by the DWP some days later which called him to a meeting at a London jobcentre in the first week of August.
He assumed that the meeting would be one-to-one with a jobcentre advisor – a meeting where an advisor goes through the application in detail with the claimant and jobsearch requirements are set – but instead found that the meeting was a group session with about ten other new claimants and one G4S security guard who sat in the room the…

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Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 13, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs