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My understanding is that if the client is an A8 national she needs to have been a registered worker for 12 months without a break of over thirty days before claiming benefit (doesn't sound like this is the case). After that she will be treated in the same way as any other EEA national.
If she's not an A8 national, she might have retained her worker status and, therefore, be exempt from the right to reside test and able to claim IS. It depends on the circumstances of her leaving her last job. Did she leave voluntarily or not? What has she been doing since? She will keep her worker status if she's temporarily
unalbe to work through sickness. Otherwise, if she left work voluntarily she would have to be pursuing studies related to her previous work. If she left involuntarily she could be pursuing any kind of vocational training and retain worker status. If not she'll have to claim JSA. This would keep her worker status intact and exempt her from the right to reside test. She won't be able to do this by being a workseeker claiming IS though.
If she hasn't retained her worker status she really doesn't have any choice but to claim JSA I don't think.
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