OP, if you're a Universal Credit signee: stay strong, just be polite and cordial with the in person sessions and they'll do their best to work the system as much as they can.

Trust me, being polite and positive with the person in the Job Centre brightens their day as it's a break from them having to deal with the dregs of society.

It's a shitty system but having been there before at my lowest time in life, it can get better.