Has anyone heard of an indefinite JSA sanction?

I don't see many JSA appeals so it's a bit of a grey area. CPAG says max period 26 weeks, as has always been my understanding, however it seems one of our local JC+ offices is putting them on people's claims with no end date.

I'll probably complain if I'm right and there's no such thing (along with a plethora of possible mal-administration issues that have just come to light).

However I'd be interested to hear people's opinions/experiences of this happening.

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s 19 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 states clearly that any sanction period shall be 'at least one week but not more than 26 weeks'. The detail of how long the sanction should be in particular cicumstances is contained in the JSA Regs reg 69.

Are you sure it's a sanction, not something else such as closing the claim for failure to sign on on the appropriate date? Or suspending payment becasue of failure to provide information? Only the s19 circumstances (broadly: leaving a job without just cause, failing to apply for a job, failing to follow a jobseeker's direction and various things around training courses) are sanctions in the normal sense. Why have these apparent sanctions been applied?