To this is absolutely insane! Universal Credit Sanction

Is sanctioning her so she hasn’t got enough even for basic living requirements, for ONE missed appointment, not extreme though?
£7 for a whole month.

Are you sure that’s all she’s missed, have you seen her journal? My DS missed one appointment once and wasn’t so heavily sanctioned so I’m thinking there may possibly be more to this.

I think the sanctioning system is cruel, but @ThisIsInsane I really don't think you should be going to the appointment with her.

Help her work out what to say beforehand, but don't go in with her unless as pp said she has some sort of extra needs.

Sorry idk why that posted twice!

What did she do her degree in? Unfortunately, a lot of students are struggling to find jobs and having to retrain. Would she be interested in teaching or nursing? The state needs teachers and nurses, so won't be too hard to find a job. In meantime, she can do agency work to meet people at network - this is for teaching. If her degree is in shortage subject, then she can get a bursary too.
Courses start in September, so there's still some time!

So what about ppl who have to miss work to attend a UC appointment.

What did she do her degree in? Unfortunately, a lot of students are struggling to find jobs and having to retrain. Would she be interested in teaching or nursing? The state needs teachers and nurses, so won't be too hard to find a job. In meantime, she can do agency work to meet people at network - this is for teaching. If her degree is in shortage subject, then she can get a bursary too.

Courses start in September, so there's still some time!

Thanks for the insight into the rules, I’m definitely not familiar with UC and how easy/hard they are. To be honest, if she’s apparently applying for 50 jobs a week, attending a couple of interviews etc, she could’ve phoned the DWP to sort this out.

She clearly needs help with writing a decent job application. Does the king’s trust offer any support in your area? www.kingstrust.org.uk/ They offer support with moving into employment etc. There will be other things available if not.

How old is she? I know she’s an adult but are we talking 20 or 45?

The lowest-level sanction usually lasts until you attend a rescheduled interview so, unfortunately, it sounds like OP's DD didn't contact the DWP to explain her absence and reschedule the appt (OP posted that it was an appt in June that her DD missed).

I actually don’t think most of them exist which are agency advertised so she’s only applying for employer advertised roles now
She shouldn't have waited so long, but cross fingers she'll start getting more responses and interviews now.

It would be unreasonable if they didn’t make this clear in advance and just decided that’s what they were doing. But they do make it clear, and your daughter agreed to it as part of her commitments.

If you want to receive state funds then you have to go by their rules, no matter how stupid you think they are. She didn’t attend and didn’t have a good reason for that (or they wouldn’t have sanctioned). So she got sanctioned; those are the rules.

What is she doing in bed for 16 hours a day? Tell her to get up and sort herself out.

Especially not someone who's sleeping 14-16 hours a day. Much fewer and much more focused job applications would be the next step. You can appeal the sanction but it sounds like there may be more to it than she's told you as the period is so long.

She needs to stay busy, volunteer, free training etc... responding to indeed jobs by just sending a CV is not the way to go.

Has she sent letters to targeted companies? Quite a few companies only advertise on their websites only.

She clearly needs to reconsider her job search methodology. You'll be much more helpful talking to her about this than going to complain to the job centre, especially as it sounds likely your DD is not telling you the full story.

Break it down. She’s awake for 8 hours a day. Let’s deduct an hour per day on average for meals, toilet, a shower, dressing, Job Center appointments.

So that’s 7 hours wakened time per day. That’s 49 hours per week that she has available to apply for jobs.

She’s doing roughly one job per hour, every hour that she’s awake, every day for the last 6 months. That hour will need to include finding the job, reading the job specs, taking in the necessary info like location and salary and applying. No breaks.

Hmmm. I think your theory as to what’s actually happening is a bit more realistic.

@ThisIsInsane Yep. That’s how many she’s applied for. Over 1000 just on Indeed

Does she actually tailor her applications to the job descriptions? Because in theory one can apply for 1000's of jobs by the click of a button wit a generic CV & cover letter.

Matching your skill set with the job description on the other hand is a different ball game.

She really needs to up her game.

Give her a kick up the arse.

1500 job applications, come on now, is that the truth.

How is she sleeping up to 16 hours a day and ranking up so many applications.

This is sensible advice.

If your daughter is spending 16 hrs per day in bed how is she applying for 50 jobs per week? Sorry OP but something just doesn't add up.
Is she qualified to do all '50' of the jobs she applies for? Unlikely, I have been working for 22 years and have bags of experience but I know I would not be qualified to apply for 200+ jobs a month. She is clearly just firing off a cv to anyone advertising so she can 'prove' to the job centre that she is looking for work and even then I doubt it is anything like the numbers she is giving you!
I think before you go storming into the job centre (personally I think she should go alone and sort it herself) you need to be 100% sure your daughter is telling the truth.

She called the MD rude on the first meet, within a day or two of starting the job?

Whether she was right or not about that, that was beyond stupid of her. How did she think that would end?

Appreciate he had been rude about someone else, but there’s a time and place and it’s definitely not in your first week at a new job where he does the hiring and firing.

No the sanction is not unfair or extreme. There’s requirements to meet and your DD didn’t meet them. Why did she miss the appointment?
If I don’t go to work because I’m laying in bed or having a hard time I wouldn’t get paid, so why should your DD?

Stop allowing her to languish in bed all day. Bad stuff happens, go out with your mates, drink some wine, and then get back out there with a positive attitude.

I know this isn't the point, but how on earth has she applied for 1500 jobs since January. That's about 8 a day, every single day.