What is Stage 4 JSA?

1qaz2wsx

From what I have read, I believe Stage 4 JSA is one of the following:

• Sign-on as usual
• Meet with advisor at external provider
• 4-6 hours supervised jobsearch at provider
• Do this every fortnight for 12 months
• 4 weeks work experience

or the same as above except for 30 hours a week instead of 4-6.


I met with my JCP advisor today where he put me on to Stage 4 and told me I would be referred on to an external provider. I asked questions about it and he didn't know anything. I asked:

• Who the provider is?
• What will happen at the provider?
• How many weeks the course will last for?
• How many hours?

He knew absolutely nothing about it other than "the government have told us to refer people on to other providers, we don't know any more than that". This is the same rubbish that I heard 12+ months ago! Have the JCP really been kept in the dark for over a year on what exactly Stage 4 is, or are they trying to hide something.

Could someone please explain what Stage 4 is? :undecided

brightonman123

these providers are agencies that do what i reclon the JCP could / should be doing..

sorting people's cv out, getting skills updated, helping with application letters, bus /train fares to interviews and the like..

nothingto be afraid of!

(each stage, i think, steps up at 6 month intervals..the free bus pass on stage 2 /3 ends here!)

relic

What they will be doing is getting you a job.

Amazing, huh?

teffers

Stage 4, if my memory serves me correctly, is the stage that invloves either some kind of job 'experience' working and still receiving your benefit + expenses, or going to an external provider for general annoyance, sorry assistance.