Q: are school leavers entitled to unemployment benefit?

robnye

my middle daughter finishes her GCSE exams in mid june,
and is therefore looking for a job.

q: is she entitled to sign on for unemployment benefit?

also she is due to got to college in September (assuming exam results are ok), would this exclude her from claiming?

diddlydum

The rules and exceptions are quite complicated but, no, she's not allowed to claim it during the gap between formal education and further education. Child benefit and child tax credit will continue to be payable.

Oldernotwiser

Young people aged 16 and 17 can only claim benefits in cases of exceptional hardship, whether remaining in education or not. Don't forget that you'll carry on getting child benefit and child tax credit for her as she's staying in education.

robnye

thought it was somehting like that,
yes i had forgotton about hte child benefit being paid until end of august

ok thanks peeps

Oldernotwiser

robnye wrote: »

thought it was somehting like that,
yes i had forgotton about hte child benefit being paid until end of august

ok thanks peeps

NO!! You can carry on getting CB and CTC until she's 20, if she's in full time, non advanced further education. (School or college).

robnye

yes i know that, and in fact it is end of school year the child is 19

graham.pooley

Anyone know current situation? - Single mother currently on ESA as sick, son aged 17 (until 28th August), just left school, going to Uni in September. Child benefit and child tax credits have ceased. Should they have? Child is hoping to find work over the summer of course bit if not how do the mother and son eat/
Thanks

Oldernotwiser

graham.pooley wrote: »

Anyone know current situation? - Single mother currently on ESA as sick, son aged 17 (until 28th August), just left school, going to Uni in September. Child benefit and child tax credits have ceased. Should they have? Child is hoping to find work over the summer of course bit if not how do the mother and son eat/
Thanks

You should still be getting CB and CTC until the end of August.

paddedjohn

as already said above you should be getting cb till august, even without it why cant you eat? its child benefit

skintandscared_2

robnye wrote: »

my middle daughter finishes her GCSE exams in mid june,
and is therefore looking for a job.

q: is she entitled to sign on for unemployment benefit?

also she is due to got to college in September (assuming exam results are ok), would this exclude her from claiming?

Seriously... why are benefits the first thing that people think of these days??! If she's going into further education she is not available for work and therefore can't just sign on for the dole or whatever it is. What your daughter does is go into your local town and go into every single shop and ask if they need weekend/holiday staff. Repeat every day until she finds a job. My niece did this and had 2 job offers within 4 days. Then within 4 months she found a better paid weekend job but had to work both jobs for a month because they couldn't find anyone to replace her in the first job!

Lokolo

skintandscared wrote: »

Seriously... why are benefits the first thing that people think of these days??! If she's going into further education she is not available for work and therefore can't just sign on for the dole or whatever it is. What your daughter does is go into your local town and go into every single shop and ask if they need weekend/holiday staff. Repeat every day until she finds a job. My niece did this and had 2 job offers within 4 days. Then within 4 months she found a better paid weekend job but had to work both jobs for a month because they couldn't find anyone to replace her in the first job!

Although I agree with you, that post was 2 years ago