Thanks for your replies. I was though under the impression that it's a Rapid Reclaim up until 12 weeks - I think I read this on the jobcentreplus website or help site or something. I'm seriously thinking about contacting my local MP or something. This is beyond stupid. How does sitting inside a classroom for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for three months doing litteratly nothing besides from sitting there or using a very slow, inadequate computer that my personal laptop runs circles around, help me get a job? You can exhaust job options in looking within an hour of checking multiple websites, the phones aren't accessible besides from the fact you have to ask permission the rooms are generally noisey with bored idiots generally being idiots. You can't leave so going around town or general sites of construction or industry to hand out CV's is not a possibility. The general reason behind this "course" is to have you sitting in their company for three months to bore the living **** out of you so that you sign off and stop taking back money I've been paying in for years of my ****ing life. Excuse my language but I'm getting furious even thinking about it. It absoloutely frustrates me that they dare do that to someone who genuinely just wants a job that's suitable in wages enough to pay his bills and have him actually worth working which generally isn't minimum wage. It's a disgrace.

Hey, I was wondering if anyone here could answer a question or two I have regarding Jobseekers Allowance and Rapid Reclaim. A month or so ago I was apart of New Deal and sitting in a classroom with a bunch of absolute idiots, being taught about irrelevent things instead of actually looking for work - which by the way is exactly what I was and would rather be doing. I decided to sign off and did so, then went and found myself an Agency (which I despise) out of desperation to find some kind of work. The Agency in two weeks have found me two days work which I've been paid for but this isn't enough for me to survive. I need to sign back on again but I do not want to sit in that classroom again being taught pieces of information I already know which infact help me no end towards getting a job - whilst also being treated like I'm some kind of idiot. I'm afraid that if I attempt to sign on again, it'll be classified under rapid reclaim and I'll be thrown back on the 13 week course. The questions I have (yes I've sort of beaten off the path a bit) are if I sign on now, after having worked for two days yet having only signed off for a month or so, would I sign back on via Rapid Reclaim and be chucked back on the course or would I start my claim over. Also, I understand that a change of circumstances can restart a claim, if this is true, what possible change of circumstances besides from being on this agency could qualify me for a new claim instead of being rapid restarted and is having signed onto the Agency a change of circumstances enough? Thanks in advance for your help, Dean.