JSA and unpaid work experience

hello0

I'm currently on JSA but I may have found somewhere that will offer me unpaid work experience. The thing is the company will only take me if I'm there for 4 days a week and I don't know if they will offer me anything paid at the end. How will this affect my JSA? Will I have to stop claiming?

Thank you to anyone who replies

DCFC79

hello0 wrote: »

I'm currently on JSA but I may have found somewhere that will offer me unpaid work experience. The thing is the company will only take me if I'm there for 4 days a week and I don't know if they will offer me anything paid at the end. How will this affect my JSA? Will I have to stop claiming?

Thank you to anyone who replies

As far im aware you can do unpaid work for as long as you want, does the day you have to go to the job centre fall on 1 of the days you would be working, i dont think it would affect your jsa,

jacklink

you can only do a total of 15 hours a week as anything over this and it affects your benefits. i was told that only 3 weeks ago as i enquired about it.

DCFC79

jacklink wrote: »

you can only do a total of 15 hours a week as anything over this and it affects your benefits. i was told that only 3 weeks ago as i enquired about it.

even if its unpaid, oh i guess that you would need to be actively seeking work

dmg24

Both responses are wrong.

In order to qualify you JSA you must be actively seeking and available for paid work. You are not available for paid work in this situation.

The exception is voluntary work for a charity, however even in this situation you would be expected to give up this work if you found paid employment.

clairec79

If this was only for a certain length of time possibly as a work trial? - but that would have to be set up with the job centre before you started (and there may be some conditions on the employer - I'm not sure)

seven-day-weekend

My son had his benefit stopped for doing VOLUNTARY work for a charity over a Bank Holiday weekend as they said he was not available for work (as if anyone is going to offer him any over a Bank Holiday). He had to re-start his claim.

Glad to say he found a job not long after that!

jacklink

that was probably so that they didnt have to pay him a bonus if he had been unemployed for 6 months or more then found a job

Blackpool_Saver

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

My son had his benefit stopped for doing VOLUNTARY work for a charity over a Bank Holiday weekend as they said he was not available for work (as if anyone is going to offer him any over a Bank Holiday). He had to re-start his claim.



Glad to say he found a job not long after that!

Was he up front about it?

seven-day-weekend

Yes, that's why they stopped it. They wouldn't have known otherwise.

Sharon87

That's weird I went in to them as I done 2 weeks voluntary work last week (5 days a week for a TV company) and I told the Job Centre and they told me to fill out a form (meaning I was a bit later for work, but I told them), with a letter from my employer saying I'm doing the placement. They paid me. Although I had to actively seek work as well, and also drop it if any paid work/interviews came up. They didn't so I still got it. I also got my expenses paid for it, and I still got JSA.