if someone resigns can dwp make them sell house?

homersimpson_3

x owns his own home and resigns because so unhappy with job. he goes straight away to job centre to sign on for work he does like. what benefits can he claim? is he entitled to reduced income support/job seekers alliowance- what rate? can he claim council tax benefit? can dwp make him sell his house? thanks

CIS

They cant make him sell his house, but they can sanction his JSA for up to 26weeks, unless he leaves the job for a good reason (harassment etc).

As soon as his income drops he can claim CTB, it doesnt care if he resigned or not.

RACHIE77

Hiya, sorry to hijack this thread but didnt really want to start another one when it is kind of the same question I am asking, I am also wondering the same as OP but thought that you wouldnt get JSA no matter what the reason for leaving your job... Does anyone know if you leave to spend more time with your kids as you are thoroughly depressed at leaving them in care every single day that you would get JSA? It seems a bit harsh to want to leave a job that I hate to raise my children that I wouldnt get any support but I had assumed that I wouldnt so am trudging into the office each day with a heavy heart? I also have a mortgage, do you know if you get help on the interest payments on that? I am currently on a mortgage holiday so its not an immediate concern but just want to find out what my options are!!

CIS

You would only be guranteed to get un-sanctioned JSA if you where made redundant, otherwise, no matter what the reason, sanctions can be applied at a DM assesment.

IS can be paid for single parents who need to be at home to look after young children, it may be worth a look.

zzzLazyDaisy

You can only get JSA if you are available for work. If you leave work because you want to stay at home and raise your children, you wouldn't be eligible for JSA anyway.

If you are a single parent you may be entitled to income support. If you are in a relationship with a working partner on a low income, you may be entitled to working tax credit. Also, it is worth finding out how much council tax and or housing benefit you might be entitled to if you were on a lower income.

The CAB will do you a 'better off' calculation, which will show you what you would be entitled to if you were not working compared to what you are getting for working.

RACHIE77

daveboy wrote:

It's about the only thing that is correct about the DWP scumbag system....

You chose to leave a job, you get nothing.

I don't want my Government, however bent and scheming it might be, to pay for the houses of those who chose to leave a job they already have. It's bad enough paying for the ones who don't want to find a job to begin with.

Needless to say the letters DWP don't stand for the Department for Work and Pensions to me.

Why is it correct that I can't spend time with my own children? I dont ask for much in life, I own my own house and pay my bills etc etc but I need to work to do this, I am not on about just quitting my job and not looking for another one, I am just wanting to look for another job that means I will spend more time with my kids and asking for a bit of support in the meantime?? I would be seeking a job, probably something in the evenings, maybe find out if I would get much WTC as my partner is on relatively low money and is self employed or maybe see if I could maybe get a job that I have always dreamed to do and work with kids in a school.

So for your information daveboy, I am the one that pays for any education you may have had and any hospital treatment that you may have benefitted from as I pay every penny of my tax and national insurance and always have done!! I have worked full time for over 9 years and part time just recently for 2 years, I just want to spend time with my bl00dy kids and I am sorry that you feel the way you do about not wanting to help people!! Its not like I am going to sit on my !!!!!! all day long. I wish I could pick and choose what the government paid out too.....

I'm sorry I asked for advice.

RACHIE77

p.s thanks for the other replies, no I am not a single parent and yes I would be looking for work, it really takes the biscuit sometimes that the criteria you need to get help these days is to be a single mum who doesn't want to work! We are struggling to bring up 2 small kids on two wages and I know people who choose not to work and sit and drink coffee all day in a house they pay nothing for. I don't envy them as I will own my house one day and am proud of what we have achieved, I just think we got it a bit harsh and was wondering if there was any remit for helping people like me in the system??

Scarlett1

RACHIE77 wrote:

it really takes the biscuit sometimes that the criteria you need to get help these days is to be a single mum who doesn't want to work! ?

Dont really think its fair to tarnish single parents with the brush of not working, there are families out there who have never worked in their life, I can assure you it isnt all what its cracked up to be being a single parent and you shouldnt be jealous off what other people have just cause you paid into the pot for 9 years

chuckles1066

Crude generalisations are usually unfair because everyone gets tarred with the same brush.

Having said that, the single mum = skiver equation is probably about the only one that has an element of justification about it. I've always found it amazing that society deems it acceptable that young girls with no means of supporting themselves can quite cheerfully procreate and then expect the working taxpayer to fund their and their offspring's lifestyle.

The analogy is along the lines of "I can't afford to run a Porsche but I'll get one anyway and the rest of you can pay for me to drive around in it".

Truly appalling but, sadly, it's deemed politically incorrect these days to say anything truthful about such goings-on (as I'm sure the flaming this post subsequently receives will testify!) And you all thought we enjoyed freedom of speech in this country :rotfl:

I don't even go near the Post Office at 9a.m on a Monday morning anymore, the queue of young mums, accompanied by their pushchairs, handing over their benefit books actually started to depress me.

RACHIE77

I'm sorry, i really didnt mean to offend I was just responding to the other threads who had asked/assumed I was a single mum, I do have friends who are single parents and I do appreciate how hard it is, I was just using that as an example as the people I know get to (rightly so) spend time with their kids whereas it seems if you have a partner then you have to work every hour god can send to pay the bills!! The goverment seem so keen on helping people go back to work but not to spend a year or so with their kids while they are tiny!! Like I also said I am not envious at all. I don't know where you got that idea from.

My point wasn't critising at all about the situations that people are in and I don't have any problems with 'paying in to the pot' for 11 YEARS (read thread properly) to help other people out who need it, I just wanted to know if I could spend time with my kids TOO!!!!!! Of course a single mum who IS working wouldn't receieve benefits either - Did I say that was the case, I'm sorry if I did!! No, I Said that "the criteria you need to get help these days is to be a single mum who doesn't want to work! ?" AND sadly that is the blatant TRUTH.


I really am sorry for coming on to this thread and asking a question only to get mis-understood and shot down in flames, I am sorry for loving my kids and wanting to spend time with them. I guess I should just sit in the box the government has put me in and go to work like a good little girl and be constantly broke and have to pick my son up off the floor in tears every day cos he doesn't want me to leave him all the time and go to a crappy job that i dont want to do just because thats what I am supposed to do. I hope that everyone else enjoys seeing their kids grow up that is able to!!

I wasn't after handouts, just trying to re-arrange my life so that I still work and get to see my kids too, I will be exhausted I am sure but hey, surely someone can come on here and criticise me for that too!

Scarlett1

chuckles1066 wrote:

Crude generalisations are usually unfair because everyone gets tarred with the same brush.

Having said that, the single mum = skiver equation is probably about the only one that has an element of justification about it. I've always found it amazing that society deems it acceptable that young girls with no means of supporting themselves can quite cheerfully procreate and then expect the working taxpayer to fund their and their offspring's lifestyle.

A vast amount of single parents do work, are you confusing them with teenagers who get pregnant at school I think you find that on this board there are many single parents and a lot of them work, even if it is part time

Its not very pc to say single mothers either, the term now is single parents, and you would never believe it but there are men out there looking after children on their own and claiming benefits, I dont see them being bashed by other men for not working :rolleyes: