When Job Search is Deemed Insufficient: Experiences of Unemployed People Disbarred Following Compliancy Monitoring

Job search is a central element of activation policies, which aim to transform unemployed people into active jobseekers who are subject checks. We examine neglected aspect activation: sanctions. To do so we analyse, through biographical interviews with formerly-unemployed whose benefit payments have been stopped, what it means when job deemed insufficient. Although these failed present enough written and tangible evidence their during checks, they pursued different type comprising more informal activities that difficult convert documents. So, identify twin-stranded – prescribed alternative. also point out the gap between institutionally-framed experience-based widens among having low employability attributes, ever-stricter checks penalize those most vulnerable.