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  While I was at the Job Club I did see a few that never attended and a couple that would turn up an hour after the sessions had finished. I also saw many, many more who were there when the doors opened, went through all the papers, spent a lot of time working on CV's and sending out dozens (in some cases hundreds) of speculative letters to potential employers.
  
  I also saw people being discouraged from jobs because they did not "fit the criteria" for the Job Club to get paid and others forbidden to work on business plans because they just count as a cost to the Job Club and there is no back to work payment for them.
  
  Despite whatever a scapegoat hunting rag like The Mail might like you to believe, there are systems whereby those that are offered a job, accept it and then fail to turn up can have their benefits stopped. If that has not been done in these cases then either their local office is at fault or their reasons were not as spurious as the press would have you believe.

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