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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Because those 3 days add up to BILLIONS of days nationwide, and save the government a LOT of money.
It is very unfair. The way they used to do it was take your claim from the following Monday- so if you signed on on a Wednesday, your claim would start the following Monday, for admin reasons they like to have everything done in weeks.
I think the 3 day thing is the same sort of excuse. It takes that long to "turn around" the admin and paperwork.
It is to run in line with the way sick pay was paid by companies and still is by a lot of places, you go sick on day 1 and you have 3 waiting days so statutory sick pay starts on day 4, hence the same with unemployment if that makes any sense, suspect it started to try and stop the couple of days sickies and if you were off for more than a few days it was probably genuine.