Digital signature devices at jobcentres

Has the DWP stoppped using digital signature devices at jobcentres, used for 'signing-on'?

Am asking as not heard anyone mention digital signatures for a while.

I've just signed on using a digital device last week. But that's only for JSA, that's why it's not being mentioned.

I still have the use the e-pad for signing on. Do you know what it has been replace with then? Is it back to the pen and paper method. Which seem strange as the Roaches used to pester me to transfer to the new e-pad system?

Pintel wrote:I still have the use the e-pad for signing on. Do you know what it has been replace with then? Is it back to the pen and paper method. Which seem strange as the Roaches used to pester me to transfer to the new e-pad system?

It has not been replaced, but when people are migrated to UC, they don't sign anymore.

Interesting @Miguel1975. So when on the U-C, you don't  have to 'declare' anything?

Pintel wrote:Interesting @Miguel1975. So when on the U-C, you don't  have to 'declare' anything?

I'm not sure what you mean by "declare", but you'll have an online journal to fill, instead of a booklet.

I thought 'signing on' was a "declaration" of you where 'not doing any work paid or unpaid'.

Also I thought the online journal was not compulsory, or are you pressured to use by the roach.

Thanks for updates. Always curious why the digital signature devices got introduced when for Universal Credit it is only a requirement to 'accept' a Claimant Commitment, which can be via email, phone, UC account or face-to-face.

Sign of the times: how the signature became a meaningless scrawl
Written signatures will soon be redundant even for legal documents, the Law Commission says. Does anyone care?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/shortcuts/2019/sep/04/sign-times-signature-scrawl-law-commission
> Electronic signatures are valid, confirms Law Commission https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/electronic-signatures-are-valid-confirms-law-commission/

You could imaging in the future that bio-metrics (Eg: a thumb scan), will be used instead of a signature? But this will open a can of worms about personal privacy.

Also on a side point here, has there any been any cases of fraud of forging e-signatures, such as  a person/company ‘copy and pasting’ of a e-signature etc. And making out the person has agreed to this arrangement, when they haven’t???  

I haven’t had to sign on the pad for my last 6 visits when signing on for JSA. They keep telling me that there’s a fault in the system (a whopping under-statement if ever I heard one).

I am not required to sign on using the old card/form system either. The coach enables authorisation of payment by a click on the computer. I’ve had no problems so far. Makes one wonder why all the palaver and expense of introducing those signing-on pads was undertaken in the first place.