help with benefits please?

ladyrider260

25 miles there and 25 miles back......yes, that's not unusual if you live in the sticks. People who live near or in big cities don't tend to understand that there can easily be 7 or 8 miles inbetween next door neighbours and 10 miles to the nearest shop.

Anyway, that doesn't answer your question. If the course is through the new deal scheme he may be able to get help with his travel costs. When my friends brother was on new deal, he got some sort of discount travel card simply for being on the new deal scheme. It was years ago but it's worth asking if they still do this.

fluffybunnies

If he is studying full-time on a level 3 qualification (a-level or equvalent) then he will probably be entitled to ALG

Oldernotwiser

fluffybunnies wrote: »

If he is studying full-time on a level 3 qualification (a-level or equvalent) then he will probably be entitled to ALG

This is also true of his first level 2 qualification but he's not eligible if he's claiming JSA.

OP, unless things have changed a great deal, you can't just "go to college" on New Deal. There will be designated training courses and/or work placements available with funding for travel.

If he wants to come off JSA and go back into education he can sign off, work part time and claim ALG as listed above.

delain

sarahwilson91 wrote: »

My boyfriend is on job seekers allowance (the new deal programme) and wants to attend college. He is 19.

The problem is that there is no college in the town he lives so would pay £6.50 per day for the bus. He could, however, come to the college in my town and live with me.

I live with my mum and sister and brother. He would be sharing my room. I am at college (18). My mum works 16 hrs per week and gets the rest of her money from tax credits and family allowance etc.

What benefits would he be entitled to and how would it affect my mums benefits (so he would need to pay my mum alot?)

Would it be easier if he got his own place here???

He has NO savings! Which is not good!

She says TOWN, not sticks. I am struggling to think of a town that does not have some kind of college. If it has a bus, it is unlikely to be very rural. Sorry to sound huffy, but i've lived in a rural area and cycled miles every day for work and it didn't kill me, was probably the healthiest i've ever been!

What town does he live in? i bet if you googled the name of the town and further education you would get some results. At the end of the day if you want him to move in with you, then go for it. Who does he live with now?

Bournemouth college offers travel passes for students living more than 5 miles away, and this is a fairly standard arrangement. Also most bus companies do a weekly or monthly pass that is much cheaper, maybe the OP could get him one.

sammyjammy

If he is 19 then he should contact connexions (sp?), unless he attended college already from 16-18 then he would be tretated like a normal college student ASFAIK, this would give him entitlement to EMA and travel to college and back, if he is in this situation os must other sutdents at the college therefore there is probably a college bus, there was when I went ot college and we only lived 6 miles away (although it does differ from council to council I guess), obviously he wouldn't be able to claim JSA but surely his parents could claim WTC?

ladyrider260

delain wrote: »

She says TOWN, not sticks. I am struggling to think of a town that does not have some kind of college. If it has a bus, it is unlikely to be very rural. Sorry to sound huffy, but i've lived in a rural area and cycled miles every day for work and it didn't kill me, was probably the healthiest i've ever been!

What town does he live in? i bet if you googled the name of the town and further education you would get some results. At the end of the day if you want him to move in with you, then go for it. Who does he live with now?

Bournemouth college offers travel passes for students living more than 5 miles away, and this is a fairly standard arrangement. Also most bus companies do a weekly or monthly pass that is much cheaper, maybe the OP could get him one.

There's no reason to sound huffy, every area is different and everyone has different ideas of what a village/town etc is, that's all. You simply cannot judge one by another. I take my hat off to you if you cycled a 50 miles round trip yourself, but what the OP is asking is not unreasonable. It's always good to do the best to help yourself but cycling that far is a task, especially if you are not used to cycling in the first place! (and very especially if you have as many steep hills as you have here!)

System

alanrp123 wrote: »

Get a bicycle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ignore him

If you look at his other posts he's really nothing more than a glorified troll