Lost my JSA

Oldernotwiser

wishface wrote: »

You don't think that unhappiness, misery and stress can cause mental illness? I presume then you have never heard of depression.

Working every day isn't occasional, is it. Thus if the job is causing undue stress then is it not sensible, medically (and thus financially, in keeping people off the sick which I presume you are all for), that people aren't forced into such 'adverse' conditions, just because there's a recession. Why on aerth should someone be forced to stay in a miserable job? Utter lunacy (and recent lunacy as well, since we aonly started living like this over the past century of so).

I've suffered from depression on and off for years and, in fact, took early retirement from one career because of it.

As far as "recent lunacy" goes, if you'd left a job in this way before the introduction of the welfare state you'd have had to beg for help from charities or relatives as you'd have received not a penny from any official body and you'd've been considered to be mad for even thinking of it!

The idea that there was a past time when you could just leave a job because you didn't like it and still be given money to live on is just laughable!

alfiesmum

I've only read the OP and a few others, so forgive me if it's already been said but I had to put in my two penneth.

To the OP - If you didn't have money to feed yourself until another job happens by, what were you planning on using to relocate? New rental deposit, transport to visit new area for interviews, look at flats etc?

If you were originally in a 10 hour contract, this wage must be all you require. I guarantee in the time it took you to write the thread, you'd have found a 10 hour per week job.

Also, I think you're looking down on others. You state up front that you're a graduate, small town etc. So "needless to say" you told the job centre that as you reason for giving up job. You genuinely thought they would pay you to be happier and more content in yourself, hey you're a graduate, you've done your bit for society! Sorry but that's the way it sounded to me..

I do hope you're happy in your new bar job, but could I ask is this now to be your new career? It does seem rather a Wayne and Waynetta sort of position. I did wonder why are you not getting a job that befits someone with your level of further education.

veggyboy

wishface wrote: »

citizens wage.

Yes but how are you going to fund it?? We don't live in some utopian society

wishface

veggyboy wrote: »

Yes but how are you going to fund it?? We don't live in some utopian society

same way we fund stuff now, only with less bureacracy. You do away with the need for jobcentre plus and probably much of what was the DSS along with the benefits system. No need for things like WTC for example.

Naykon

Seems this threads generated a lot of mixed views, I just want to clear some things up.

I didn't "LIE" on my form for JSA, I had two reasons to quit and simply used the one I had more evidence to support. This was not a good enough reason to continue claiming and I subsequently lost my JSA.

I quit my job because It was beginning to affect me mentally and I had saved enough money to relocate (I budgeted for 2/3months to find a job, the recession hit and I couldn't find one, *see Naive in the dictionary). I wanted to part on good terms in order to still get a decent reference. In the end however I left on bad terms through little fault of my own. So I would infact be in a better position now had I been fired....

Unfortunately we live in a tick-box society, They didn't even invite me to have a meeting and explain myself before they stopped my JSA.

The argument seems to be a disagreement between people who "quit voluntarily" as i did, and people who are fired. However I'm pretty sure people can "voluntarily" get themselves fired and carry on claiming....

Samannie

I was in a very similar situation to this a while ago- I made the same mistake of quitting my job with nowhere else to go to because I felt I was being "undervalued". This argument didn't stand up too well in the Job Center and I too didn't recieve any JSA, and too bloody right! This is definitely a lesson I had to learn the hard way. Life is hard. Not recieving any benefits meant I ended up working extra hard to find a new job and it probably would have taken me a lot longer to do so if I'd had JSA to fall back on! I

alfiesmum

Naykon wrote: »

The argument seems to be a disagreement between people who "quit voluntarily" as i did, and people who are fired. However I'm pretty sure people can "voluntarily" get themselves fired and carry on claiming....

No, I think if you punch your boss in the face or call his wife a minger, that's like making yourself jobless, and the same rules apply (Even if the wife IS a minger). Hope it all works out for you and you're soon settled in your new area/job etc.