Can they do this/Job Seekers

dmg24

Where do you actually live?

It might be worth reading back your posts before clicking the 'Post' button, and splitting the texts into paragraphs, as they don't make a lot of sense.

MX5huggy

The crisis loan would be paid back via a deduction from your benefit.

septemberblues

dmg24 wrote: »

Where do you actually live?

It might be worth reading back your posts before clicking the 'Post' button, and splitting the texts into paragraphs, as they don't make a lot of sense.

I can't believe you said the above, the OP is obviously in a state, I don't think critisism above her punctuation is going to help, do you?

dmg24

septemberblues wrote: »

I can't believe you said the above, the OP is obviously in a state, I don't think critisism above her punctuation is going to help, do you?

It was intended to be constructive, and it is clear that others understood my intention. People cannot help if they cannot understand what the OP is saying.

CrashUK

I am signing on.. You best bet is to tell them you no longer have a car and that if a job is 1 hour a way and you have to get a bus and train.. e.g bus £7.50 pw and train about £80 pw so cost you more to travel then you would get paided.

Tell them you will take any local job for £5.80 per hour that is 40 or more hours and if you have to travel the rate per hour must be higher then £5.80 to cover the high traveing costs.

You dont have to take a part-time job and you dont have to travel if it costs are to high.

Lilly_May_2

dmg24 wrote: »

Where do you actually live?

It might be worth reading back your posts before clicking the 'Post' button, and splitting the texts into paragraphs, as they don't make a lot of sense.

Hi I live in SE3,Blackheath/Kidbrooke SE3 boarders, so I have a 7 miles round trip to the benefit office.

basically the Job centre have stopped my J.Seekers allowance, for no reason, I gave her my job sheet on 30th Sept, showing how I had been looking for work, and she passed me on to another lady, who ask me to fill in a another form, which she would send to Bromley?! who would make a
decision whether they would reinstate my claim or not, when I explained what I had been doing to look for work, she said 'oh this is silly, I will have a word with my manager, well manager said no I have to send it off because in the 'meeting' we had the other day, we are not meeting our targets....

So 4 weeks on I have and have had no income....and its seems that I am being used as an escape goat, to meet their targets....Lilly

Lilly_May_2

CrashUK wrote: »

I am signing on.. You best bet is to tell them you no longer have a car and that if a job is 1 hour a way and you have to get a bus and train.. e.g bus £7.50 pw and train about £80 pw so cost you more to travel then you would get paided.

Tell them you will take any local job for £5.80 per hour that is 40 or more hours and if you have to travel the rate per hour must be higher then £5.80 to cover the high traveing costs.

You dont have to take a part-time job and you dont have to travel if it costs are to high.

Thanks for you words lol...I don't actually have a car anyway, they have suggested I work at Bluewater, which is a large shopping centre as there are jobs there, I said that it was a 38 mile round trip and would take me over two hours to get there.....they just don't understand....they said there was a job at Paddington in London, started at 7am, there is no way I could get there for 7am as the trains don't start that early.....my 'lady' told me I must look for work under 16 hours, and they would just stop what ever I earn out of my Job seekers, so with fares I would be worst of...and I still have to sign on!!!
Its just a crazy nightmare, I really do want to work, even though I can retire next year....but I have to do a job that is possible...and where I can pay my rent and eat.....

Lilly_May_2

septemberblues wrote: »

I can't believe you said the above, the OP is obviously in a state, I don't think critisism above her punctuation is going to help, do you?

don't worry, I am use to critisism...Lol....I don't think it was meant the way, it came over....maybe that why I can't get a job...lol...bad punctuation!!! I do read my answers back, and they seem ok....but maybe not.....

as you say, I guess I am a bit stress, because of all of this, but I just can't see what I done wrong, I really have been trying to work again, I have worked since I was 15, and I am now 59, and feel so let down by a system that is in place that is suppose to help us when we need it, and its not....

The Job centre send me on a work course for 3 months, along with about 25 others, I was the only one that turned up everyweek, and the stories I heard from other people, who had been unemployed for up to 5 years, I just couldn't believe it, they were fiddling the system everyway they could....
that is another reason I feel so sick about this....that the Job centre think I am like this...I have always worked hard, and paid my dues, never been in any sort of trouble, and managed to get two children though Uni...and I am a widow, so I haven't done to bad, until now.....;)...Lilly

MX5huggy

When did you do these forms then? it should not take 4 weeks to get the claim restarted.

Sorry but you can get train that arrives in Paddington before 7 easily the tube gets going around 5.

amersall

Lilly_May wrote: »

don't worry, I am use to critisism...Lol....I don't think it was meant the way, it came over....maybe that why I can't get a job...lol...bad punctuation!!! I do read my answers back, and they seem ok....but maybe not.....

as you say, I guess I am a bit stress, because of all of this, but I just can't see what I done wrong, I really have been trying to work again, I have worked since I was 15, and I am now 59, and feel so let down by a system that is in place that is suppose to help us when we need it, and its not....

The Job centre send me on a work course for 3 months, along with about 25 others, I was the only one that turned up everyweek, and the stories I heard from other people, who had been unemployed for up to 5 years, I just couldn't believe it, they were fiddling the system everyway they could....
that is another reason I feel so sick about this....that the Job centre think I am like this...I have always worked hard, and paid my dues, never been in any sort of trouble, and managed to get two children though Uni...and I am a widow, so I haven't done to bad, until now.....;)...Lilly

its ok love, while they are messing you about, the shirkers will get away with claiming and not looking for a job, so you are in effect helping some other person out, good for you!!!. and before i get shot down in flames i know a lot of people who get jsa and have not worked for years and still get away with it, it is disgusting, it does not pay you to work and pay ni and tax and then to be treated badly when you just want some money to live on untill you can find work. that was the position i found myself in 3 years ago and i would not sign on again even if my life depended on it.