JSA with a child under 5 at home

ukdickie31

Beg to differ.

Look in the JSA guide on Availibility rules and caring responsibilities.

As soon as someone states they have caring responsibility that restricts their availibility (could be for a relative or anybody else), but wants to claim JSA, they have to be available as per my previous posting at #2

oldmotherreilly

ukdickie is correct-you need to be available for 16 hours a week and the hours that you are available, as he has said, need to correspond to the type of work you are looking for - as an example, if you said that you were looking for bar work from 8-11am each day they would refer this to a Decision Maker as you would be unlikely to find work that fitted this restriction. You can have no longer than a week to arrange childcare under JSA regulations-if you were to state you needed longer than this, then again the claim would be referred to a DM. If either of these decisions were to go against you, it could result in you losing all entitlement to JSA

Krasnoludek

Hmm. I am certainly available 16 hours a week, as my role was 20 hours a week. I am not trying to avoid looking for work as I do want a job. I was an office manager and I am hoping for the same sort of role, is it too much for your career aspiration to be the same as your last job ? Surely there are lots of part time jobs out there (somewhere) so I dont think I am being unreasonable. My daughter is no longer able to go to nursery (long story) and to be honest the thought of shoving her in with a childminder I dont know makes me feel quite sick, my daughter does not settle well and was doing well at nursery, which is why I was so gutted when we had to leave. Surely lots of mums are looking for part time work to fit in with school hours so I am not a special case ? And I am sorry but I dont want to work at night, I never have worked at night and I dont want to.

I am not trying to be awkward I just want to find a job like my old one and have a bit of support whilst doing it, whats wrong with that ? I have worked since leaving school its not like I am some lazy ar*e who has been signing on their whole life and getting away with it

K x

ukdickie31

I don't think anyone disagrees with your reasons and job goals.

What we are posting are the JSA rules.

Knowing them can save a great deal of frustration if things go wrong.

Best wishes.