Can you work while on Jsa

Yes you can but you're only allowed to keep £5 of it, the rest gets deducted from your JSA £1 for £1.

Ms-Money-Penny wrote: »

JSA = Job Seekers Allowance

If you're working then you're not exactly job seeking. And if you are working and claiming JSA then it's called Benefit Fraud.

Not exactly true ....you're allowed to work 16 hrs or less and still claim JSA..

generaloneill wrote: »

Its called working casual. Cash in hand.

Now that is fraud, the op could get in to alot of trouble and made to pay their benefits back.

mountainofdebt wrote: »

Not exactly true ....you're allowed to work 16 hrs or less and still claim JSA..

Actually your statement is not true and you'd be suprised by how many get caught with the 16 hour rule.

example

If you are working 15 hours a week and earning £10 an hour you'd be earning £150.00 less tax etc. So why would you think you'd receive JSA on top of earning £150.00 a week.

I work in benefit fraud and this is the question they throw at you if you plead the 16 hour rule.

If you're earning over 16 hours then you claim WTC

mountainofdebt wrote: »

As far as I aware you can work 16 hours or less and anything you earn is taken into consideration when caculating the benefit amount......this is why I assume that I have had to provide copies of my wage slip every week since I started claimed. Presumably if I earned anything over the JSA entitlement then I would only get my contributions made up.

Or have I been given incorrect information?

Pretty much correct except that it's less than 16 hours, not 16 hours or less.