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going on holiday while seeking jsa

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  • tsimehC
    tsimehC Posts: 763 Forumite
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    DaveLy wrote: »
    Working..... pay for holiday abroad in x months time... few weeks later lose job... begin claim benefits...

    Plausible? Of course. Just because your on benefits does it mean you should give up your holiday?

    Well it seems that being on benefits is a holiday for some people. :beer:
  • cali_
    cali_ Posts: 150 Forumite
    Proc wrote: »
    JSA: Job Seeker Allowance?

    How can you possibly be seeking a job when you're on holiday that I paid for?
    How exactly does JSA work? I've been told that someone loses his/her job, they will only get JSA if they have worked and paid tax in that year. :confused:
  • timmmers
    timmmers Posts: 3,752 Forumite
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    Rikki wrote: »
    The unemployed can afford to jump on a low cost carrier and return. We really are paying them too much. :rotfl:

    Live on 64 quid a week for a while and pay for food, bills and travel to interviews clothes etc. Then come here being a smartass with zero idea what the hell it's like to lose a job and not be able to get another one.

    People like you make me puke...lucky there are plenty of decent folk to compensate for what you lack.

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  • cali_
    cali_ Posts: 150 Forumite
    nexuss wrote: »
    I know someone who went amsterdam and told jobcentre plus he was looking for a job there.
    :rotfl: And they bought that?
  • Jomo
    Jomo Posts: 8,253 Forumite
    timmmers wrote: »
    Live on 64 quid a week for a while and pay for food, bills and travel to interviews clothes etc. Then come here being a smartass with zero idea what the hell it's like to lose a job and not be able to get another one.

    People like you make me puke...lucky there are plenty of decent folk to compensate for what you lack.

    t

    And the rest :confused:

    If there is nobody in the household with a job then rent/council tax is paid as well...some people who work aren't much better off once this is paid...
  • donnajunkie
    donnajunkie Posts: 32,412 Forumite
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    Jomo wrote: »
    You might not be 'actively seeking employment' whilst you are on holiday in the UK but if you expect to keep your claim on the go whilst you are on that holiday the agreement is that you should be available IF a job interview were to come up...

    Nobody is disputing that you can't go on holiday..just that if you want to keep your claim open you keep your side of the agreement...and that is to be available should any job interview crop up...simples!

    If you know that this will be difficult to do then sign off until you get back.

    do people have to spend time every single day applying for jobs. i can manage to do many applications in a few hours. i mean enough to be considered a weeks worth. so it is not unreasonable to have a short period away from it.
  • donnajunkie
    donnajunkie Posts: 32,412 Forumite
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    Jomo wrote: »
    And the rest :confused:

    If there is nobody in the household with a job then rent/council tax is paid as well...some people who work aren't much better off once this is paid...

    i would judge how well off someone is by seeing how much they have left after paying all their bills.
  • timmmers
    timmmers Posts: 3,752 Forumite
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    donnajunkie wrote: »
    do people have to spend time every single day applying for jobs. i can manage to do many applications in a few hours. i mean enough to be considered a weeks worth. so it is not unreasonable to have a short period away from it.

    No they don't..and you couldn't anyway as there are no jobs around. You have to provide proof of less than a dozen steps you took to find work...which is a tiny part of what you'd be doing if you prefer to choose what you eat and not spend a week out of every 2 with no food.

    I also live where the OP does, and I bet he has already applied for all jobs there are here. I have even been offered a job to apply for in Germany by the JC here.
    They seemed to think I should be interested until I pointed out that I don't speak German and it said that was important...and also that they killed my grandad and had a really good attempt at my dad too :rolleyes:

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  • Jomo
    Jomo Posts: 8,253 Forumite
    donnajunkie wrote: »
    do people have to spend time every single day applying for jobs. i can manage to do many applications in a few hours. i mean enough to be considered a weeks worth. so it is not unreasonable to have a short period away from it.

    I doubt they do spend every living moment applying for jobs but the agreement is that they are available for work if claiming JSA.
  • Jomo
    Jomo Posts: 8,253 Forumite
    donnajunkie wrote: »
    i would judge how well off someone is by seeing how much they have left after paying all their bills.

    Claiming benefits isn't supposed to make anyone 'well off' is it :confused:
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