DWP directly supports domestic violence victims in a number of ways. The jobseekers allowance domestic violence (JSA DV) easement helps victims of actual or threatened domestic violence by allowing a break from job seeking activity to enable claimants to stabilise their lives and those of their families. The following table sets out the number of times the jobseeker's allowance domestic violence easement has been applied in each month since its introduction. It only captures those people where DWP's administrative systems show that an easement has been approved for at least four weeks - the minimum period of time for which an easement can be approved. It does not include people where an application for an easement was made but was either not followed up or where no evidence was provided in support of the application. The easement can apply for a period of up to 13-weeks, so an individual easement may span a period of several months. Where this is the case, the easement has only been counted in the month in which it was first applied. The information in the table has been taken from the Department's Labour Market System (LMS) and has not been fully quality-assured. This type of internal management information does not form part of the regular official statistics outputs that are released by the Department in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority's Code of Practice. The following table sets out the number of times the jobseeker's allowance domestic violence easement has been applied in each month: Month Numberof times during the course of the month that the easement was firstapplied April2012 14 May2012 34 June2012 31 July2012 22 August2012 45 September2012 30 October2012 29 November2012 46 December2012 32 January2013 44 February2013 58 March2013 46 April2013 45 May2013 43 June2013 62 July2013 75 August2013 72