Editing Jobseeker's Allowance (section)

==Claimant Commitment==
When claimants attended their first 'Jobseeker Interview', they were required to sign a contract with their advisor, called a claimant commitment.<ref name="Weinert">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zTc83WPJ8oEC&q=Employability%3A+From+Theory+to+Practice|first=P. |last=Weinert|publisher=Transaction |title=Employability: From Theory to Practice|year=2001|isbn=0-7658-0879-X|access-date=11 June 2012}}</ref> The contract can be changed at one-to-one interviews. Its terms include that claimants state:
* what activities they will perform to look for work
* The maximum commuting time they will accept
* The type of work they are ideally looking for (although claimants should be prepared to accept anything within their capabilities)
* How many times they will search suitable job search websites each week
* Whether they will use any magazines/newspapers to find jobs
* The maximum hours they are able to work, taking into consideration barriers such as health, child care etc.

Whether claimants are paid therefore depends on whether they uphold the contract they have agreed to – from a political theory known as Welfare [[Contractualism]], first expressed in the 1998 paper "New Ambitions for our Country: A New Contract for Welfare".<ref name="Van Vugt &Peet">{{cite book|first1=J. P. A.|last1=Van Vugt|first2=J.|last2=Peet|title=Social Security and Solidarity in the European Union: Facts, Evaluations, and Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PyUdt8Mcm3YC&pg=PA186|access-date=11 January 2014|publisher=Springer|year=2000|page=186|isbn=9783790813340}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=January 2014|note=Only as referenced footnote}}<ref name="Carney et al">{{cite book|editor-first1=T.|editor-last1=Carney|editor-first2=G.|editor-last2= Ramia|editor-first3=A.|editor-last3=Yeatman|title=Liberalism Contractualism and Citizenship|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1vkgWX7GRr0C&pg=PA57|access-date=11 January 2014|publisher=Federation Press|date=1 December 2001|page=57|first=Kanishka|last=Jayashuri|chapter=Autonomy, Liberalism and the new Contractualism|isbn=9781862873667}}</ref>{{verify inline|reason=Not the supposed source of this theory. Verify that it actually supports the notion that this theory is the basis for JSA|date=March 2024}}

{{quote|at the heart of the new state will be a contract between citizen and government based on responsibilities and right<ref name="S White ">{{cite web | url = https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:dZyfM3L2wBQJ:www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/GSSW/schram/whitemead.pdf+&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShxtfRb_9KLif7rJzDiphXckAOCY13gholTGBnx0nVUeiXWBPlbUDeB9UwIIm0XiyAS4M-_O9esKQKTIEp9kVmIqpUMtGC_fmnydZicGbn34xtloamU0dNhlnvbQk6nIZgnqRLy|title=B.J.Pol.S.507–532 30 |first=S. |last=White| access-date =6 June 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press 2000 }}</ref>}}