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Is this correct????
dipsy81
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Is this right or what??? My OH has just read in the Daily Mail, page 10 a boy of 17 yrs old is receiving £90 on the dole every week. My OH has lost his job via redundancy, got a job classed as self employed which did not work out. Can only claim £64.30 each week, called Employment and Support Allowance, he does have a sick note . We have a mortgage, bills to pay. We are both 54 yrs old and have paid NI for over 30 ys how can this be right.
Has anyone got any advice on this subject please?
Has anyone got any advice on this subject please?
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No not £90 a week, maybe about £100 a fortnight depending on the circumstances for JSA.
Jobseeker's Allowance Income-Based - Personal Allowances
Income-Based - Personal allowances 2008/2009 2009/2010
Single - aged under 18 47.95 50.950 -
Hi Healy
No it says in the paper that £90 drops through his letter box every week. That's what I said, it was probably a fortnight. He is living rent free at his fathers council flat in Kings Cross.0 -
Hi Healy
No it says in the paper that £90 drops through his letter box every week. That's what I said, it was probably a fortnight. He is living rent free at his fathers council flat in Kings Cross.
You cannot rely on what the papers say, they often make mistakes as far as facts and figures go.0 -
Hi Healy
No it says in the paper that £90 drops through his letter box every week. That's what I said, it was probably a fortnight. He is living rent free at his fathers council flat in Kings Cross.
Why do people take newspapers at face value?
Especially a story about benefits in the DM! 0 -
:rotfl: It's correct the paper said so!Hit the snitch button!member #1 of the official warning clique.
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He's probably claiming dla.0
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kelloggs36 wrote: »He's probably claiming dla.
The article implies that he is fit and healthy.Gone ... or have I?0 -
It is probably £90 a fortnight as Jobseekers' Allowance is paid every two weeks and the rate is less for £17-year-olds.
Also it doesn't normally 'drop through the letterbox' these days, but gets paid into a bank account..(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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And there must be more to it than this as 17 year olds can't normally claim JSA at all.0
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