DWP Travel To Interview Scheme

sallyannepowerphipps

The DWP cannot refuse a travel warrant for interview purposes. So long as you have been on benefit for more than 6 months, the job is for more than 16 hours per week and you have proof of an interview - e-mail confirmation is best since an e-mail is a legally binding document.

Sometimes the Back to Work Advisor or even the Finance Department at your local office may also wish to follow up with a telephone call but this is purely down to the individual office, since an e-mail confirming the appointment date. time and venue saves them the cost and indeed the time of making a call.

For a Back to Work Advisor to suggest you seek work more locally, this is just ridiculous, since following 6 months of being on benefit you have to agree to search a wider area for a job anyway.

In my personal experience, insist the company offering you an interview sends an e-mail to confirm the date, time and venue. Forward this on to your Back to Work Advisor also in e-mail form and advise when you will attend to complete the necessary paperwork - this procedure takes 15 minutes max.

On a lasting note it is easier 'DWP paperwork wise' to obtain a travel warrant to travel by public transport ie bus and train than it is to claim back petrol expenses.

Should you then experience difficulties obtaining monies for a legitimate and proven interview, I suggest you forward copy e-mails to your local MP. That normally does the trick.

Regards

applecharlotte

After 10 months of applying for jobs and being unsuccessful in securing employment as a "Sales and Marketing professional operating in consumables goods markets" i would suggest that the jobcentre should not continue paying travel to interview for fares for something that seems (after 10 months) to be quite unrealistic. Perhaps you should be looking to change your expectations of the type of job you can get, and look for something more local.