JSA because of change to contract?

anotherginger

i doubt voluntary/free work will look bad on her cv.....i thought she needed more experience anyway!?

again, 6 months doing something related to the job is better than 6 months without!

it can be a slow process getting the necessary qualifications and experience for any job. i'm 25 and won't be qualified for what i do for about another 6 months, and this is after 4 years at undergrad, a year working, a masters and one year working in my chosen field! thats 7 years to get a job that i like!

Ames

Someone's just suggested that she could be eligible for LHA for the flat in Leeds, as it's her main residence and she's just working away, would that be right?

seven-day-weekend

Ames wrote: »

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So, please can everyone stop trying to be helpful and think of the long term and what's best for her and just answer her questions.

1. can she quit and go on jsa She will be sanctioned for giving up her job voluntarily.
2. can she refuse to sign for the wage cut and get them to pay her for a job she's not doing. I'm not sure. - presumably if she did they could just sack her?

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See my comments in blue above.

Ames

I know that, but if she carries on working where she is on such a low wage, would she be eligible for LHA for the place in Leeds, as it's her main residence? She'd be eligible for it where she is if she lived in a flat because of her income. Sorry, I wasn't very clear.

skipsmum

Ames wrote: »

Doing it for free to build a name just isn't something she'll consider. I have a few contacts I could have used for her - I know people at the playhouse who could have helped her get voluntary work in their project for young people, there's a charity that teaches sound to disadvantaged kids who I have some links with, a friend has strong links with Opera North, there are various local mini festivals I know the organisers of.... In June I invited her to our 'community day' where there were loads of bands, she turned up as everyone was packing away. She says that if she does voluntary/community/free work then it'll look bad on her cv and she wont make it into industry.

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This is so untrue. I'm a female sound engineer. I started out doing sound for local kids theatre groups as a mum/volunteer. They eventually paid for me to do C&G Sound Eng. Ten years on, this year I did panto at a large city theatre, and worked at festivals from the local greenfair to glastonbury.
I still do a lot of volunteer work, I learn so much working with non-professional people and equipment, and its so much fun. But I have also made enough contacts through this to keep me in work despite the recession, and despite being a female in what is undoubtably a mans world. Im a very girly girl, but still get stuck in with lifting, rigging, teamaking, cleaning...whatever, but I get the good jobs too!

seven-day-weekend

I don't think you can claim LHA for a place you are not living in for months on end.

Does she ever live at the place in Leeds?

Also, if she is under 25, she would only be eligible for the single room rate.

The link below might help:


http://england.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/paying_for_a_home/housing_benefit_and_local_housing_allowance

Jowo_2

Ames,

Are you sure that you've got the strength and motivation to carry your 'ungrateful cow of a sister'? As you've said before, you can lead a horse to water but can't make them drink so I sense that she's not very good at acting on advice so perhaps she's better off standing on her own two feet. Why can't she contact the benefits people or citizens advice herself to find out the position?

I went through a long-drawn out major support process with a friend who seemed to hit problems with their career, relationship, finances, housing and so forth. She actively sought advice and acted on none which was very exasperating for all concerned because she wouldn't even do the simplest and easiest things to resolve them.

In the end I decided that she was at the 'learned helplessness' end of the spectrum - the reason why she sought advice was just a technique in generate sympathy and make people around her volunteer their time, effort and money to sorting out her problems so she didn't have to. Final straw is when she cadged people to pay her mobile phone bill and decorate her flat but had just taken an expensive holiday. I think her procrastination was just because she learned other people would pitch in and fix things for her if she left it long enough...

Ames

Oh the irony! My mum does that all the time - plays the sympathy card. She kept my sister ill for years, she'd had ME but when she recovered mum told her she was still ill, for sympathy and benefits. I remember when mum came into my room one night and told me she was dying from MS and wouldn't see me grow up - all a lie, the doctors had told her many times she was fine. Sister always goes on about how mum acts that way.

But yes, I agree, sister is trying to get everyone else to sort out her problems. She also wont take advice unless it's what she wants to hear. Like with this thread, when everyone else (even professionals in the field) are wrong.

I definitely don't have the stamina to keep helping her when she doesn't appreciate it. I have mental health and physical disabilities and I have enough of a fight on my hands at the moment getting the appropriate help for myself, and I'm doing intensive work on my own problems (the most urgent, as of last week, being to sort out my relationships with my family). I guess I just want to feel appreciated so try and do what I can to help, but I should have learned by now that it'll never be appreciated and I'm just wasting my time. I've posted on here three times because she's asked me to, and each time people have taken the time and trouble to try and help her with the problem only to have her say that they're wrong, talking rubbish, don't understand... any excuse so that she doesn't have to take responsibility and do something herself.

Again, I'm sorry you've all wasted your time. I'll know in future just to tell her who she needs to get in touch with herself.

Oldernotwiser

You sound like a lovely brother - I wish your sister appreciated you!

Ames

sister, I'm a girl!