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returning too the UK

mark_bsou
mark_bsou Posts: 1 Newbie
in Benefits & tax credits
hi i have reciently returned too the uk from abroad, have no money and havnt found a job yet....
am 25 years old
live with parents
both parents both reciently went outa work

have signed on job seekers allowance , recieveing 125 quid a week

i am just wondering what kind of other allowances/loans/ grants i could apply for ?

any help would b greatly apreciated

thatnks mark !

Comments

  • Conor_3
    Conor_3 Posts: 6,944 Forumite
    None. However your job prospects would improve considerably if you went to college on an evening and did a basic Adult Literacy course.
  • terryw
    terryw Posts: 4,396 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Troll alert.
    "If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools"
    Extract from "If" by Rudyard Kipling
  • G-G_4
    G-G_4 Posts: 3,090 Forumite
    £125 a week.. not likely
    :D BSC Member 155 :cool:
  • Mips
    Mips Posts: 19,796 Forumite
    :rotfl:


    Damn... and there's me with the phone in my hand ready to ring up and get me some £125 a week JSA :D
    :cool:
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