Can they do this/Job Seekers

Jomo

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.

You are right in what you are saying, it isn't logical for somebody to pay so much in travel if the salary isn't great.

The problem is though, if you are signing on, the first 13 weeks you can pretty much narrow the job search down to what you expect but after that they expect you to be less discriminate with your job searches...location, salary and actual job (hoping that you can use skills you have in another environment).

This is how it was explained to me anyway.

donnac2558

Can I ask when you moved from Ireland to the UK?

You keep mentioning your payments used to be from Delivery Ireland which is the Irish Republic not the UK system.

Have you no family who could help you out until this is all sorted out?

Lilly_May_2

amersall wrote: »

course you can walk that distance in 1 hour:p:p:p a woman of your age ;) it wont hurt you to get up at 4am and totter of to get a tube ;) get a grip woman :eek: you have only worked 40 odd years whats up with you:D:D work another 40:rolleyes: so you can keep the next generation on jsa:rolleyes:excuses excuses excuses:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I have always said lifes a B**** and then you die...I can now understand why my son moved to live in America earlier this year, he is doing better already, than I done in this country over 40 years....funny enough he worked for the Home office and was also disgusted with the way it was run, he worked for them for over 12 years..;)...


**Amersall** that a good idea....lol...murder someone...'lady in the job centre comes to mind'

I did feel like saying at the Job Centre, 'next week I would be doing some shop lifting to get some food, and then when I get charged, I would ring the Sun Newspaper and tell them what is happening and how people are being treated by this Government.'

....daughter said I should phone the Sun anyway, as to stop my money just like that without any good reason, has to be unlawful....how do they expect you to live, and the funny thing is they still expect you do be doing job searches, stamps and bus fares cost money.....

**Red Devil** you are so right, even prisoners get fed....

Off to the Savoy for lunch I think, just for a change.....:rotfl:

Lilly_May_2

donnac2558 wrote: »

Can I ask when you moved from Ireland to the UK?

You keep mentioning your payments used to be from Delivery Ireland which is the Irish Republic not the UK system.

Have you no family who could help you out until this is all sorted out?

For some reason my claim has aways been send to Ireland, I think a lot of claims are send out of London now, just so people don't keep banging on their doors,,,I really don't know, but Ireland has always paid my JA into my account..

no family, Son lives in America, daughter at Uni, who I have been borrowing money off to buy food.....whoever heard of a student having money, let alone borrowing from a student.....:D

MX5huggy

Lilly_May wrote: »

Forms. I sign on on the 16th Sept.received two weeks money the following Monday 21st Sept, I then signed on two weeks later 30th Sept, when my claim was supended...I received no money since then as I am told they pay two weeks in arears, so the money I received on the 30th Sept was my two weeks arrears....hope I have made myself clear!!!

No not very clear did you receive any money for signing on the 30th (should have been credited 5th).

Don't shoplift crisis loans are the DWP alternative to shop lifting.

Please stop saying Ireland your claim won't be going to Ireland, it may be being handled by a BDC in Northen Ireland (Belfast I expect).

Oldernotwiser

Lilly_May wrote: »

I have always said lifes a B**** and then you die...I can now understand why my son moved to live in America earlier this year, he is doing better already, than I done in this country over 40 years....funny enough he worked for the Home office and was also disgusted with the way it was run, he worked for them for over 12 years..;)...

Find yourself unemployed in the good ole US of A and see how far it gets you!

Lilly_May_2

***MX5Huggy***

Sorry, bit difficult to explain,...first sorry for keep saying Ireland..;) its actually Londonderry (thought that was in Ireland...lol)

Anyway the letter says....We cannot pay your Job seekers allowance from 17th September 2009,

From 1st Oct 2009 your allowance will be £64.30, (which I didn't get..)

I rung and spoke to a lady in Londonerry who said I had to reclaim and send in an appeal letter, to get it back dated from the 17th Sept, and to start my claim again, which I have done...


I was also told they pay two weeks in arrears, so I last received money on Mon 21st Sept, which I am now told is the two weeks arrears..

I sign on 28th Sept, and that is when all this fuss happened...and I haven't received any money since, (21st September) I should have received money the following mon 5th Oct....I didn't..

so, I have missed two weeks due the 5th Oct, and am due again this monday 19th, but of course even though I sign on yesterday the 14th I still don't know if I will get anything on monday (19) as I am awaiting a reply to my reclaim and appeal...

so Mon 19th I will have been without money for 4 weeks....hope that is a bit clearer, if not just shout....lol....Lilly

baza52

Lilly_May wrote: »

You can walk 16 miles from Kidbrooke to Bluewater in two hours, good for you,...lol it takes me an hour to walk to Woolwich to sign on, (three and an half miles) but then I am 59, and can't walk quite as quick as I could when I was was younger....and it takes over an hour by bus to get to Bexleyheath...now, I know that as I have done it....thats without the hold ups of course, like Welling, and the Blackwall tunnel (cos the bus I would get comes from that way) plus rush hour etc etc....Old age comes to as all......;)...Lilly

How come you cant get a train to victoria by 7am?
I live in welling so its the same line your on.
Trains start from blackheath at 05.42am and its a 41 min journey.

sammyjammy

donnac2558 wrote: »

Can I ask when you moved from Ireland to the UK?

You keep mentioning your payments used to be from Delivery Ireland which is the Irish Republic not the UK system.

Have you no family who could help you out until this is all sorted out?

Some Jobcentres in London are serviced by a Benefit Delivery Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The work is outsourced to NI Social security Dept

MX5huggy

Lilly if you ring Londonderry today they will be able to tell you if they have sent the money that you signed for yesterday, and if not why not and what needs to happen to get that money, if they have not sent it you can ask for a emergency payment which they may pay by same day banking into your account (only some accounts can do this) or a counter giro to be collected from the JC, or you can wait the 3 days for it to be credited as normal.

If they say you won't be getting the money and you don't have any apply for a crisis loan.