Jobseekers Agreement: Conditions to provide a personal email address and phone number

S. Martin left an annotation (11 February 2012) Job Centres and service providers will try to obtain as much personal information about you that they can, and you are under no obligation to give it. E-mail addresses and phone numbers not given to the DWP/Job Centres will certainly not affect your ability to perform job searches. You are under no obligation to furnish them with specific details such as E-mails or URL's you have sent to potential employers/agencies. You are obliged to record details of activity only, this would include job applications, job searches, and the frequency. By submitting such detail you are revealing your E-mail address to them, and giving them the scope to trace your E-mail address. Link to this Mr Taylor left an annotation (11 February 2012) Should you wish to send emails to the DWP but not wish them to be able to send emails to you consider getting a disposable email account. You will be able to make new email addresses at will, use them to send info to the DWP and then turn that email address off so the DWP cannot reply, should they try it will immediately be bounced back to them with the message: 'Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: rejected by the recipient domain. User unknown. When you wish to send them more info you can simply turn the email address back on, send them an email, and then turn it off again :) Link to this S. Martin left an annotation (12 February 2012) You can do this if you run Google Chrome, this allows you to set up E-mail addresses in many names.