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job seekers for part timer ?

oh_know
oh_know Posts: 92 Forumite
10 Posts
edited 2 December 2009 at 8:37AM in Benefits & tax credits
My other half has up to now been working 2.5 days a week for company A and 2.5 days a week for company B. Both jobs were temping admin jobs.
Company A has terminated the contract.
Can she claim any job seekers benefit ?
Does any one know the rules in a quick summary

(apologies for my lazyness !)

Comments

  • Voyager2002
    Voyager2002 Posts: 16,349 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Almost certainly not.

    For a start, anything she earns above five pounds is deducted (pound for pound) from that week's JSA. So if she earns more than 65 pounds for the remaining work each week, she would not get any JSA in any case.
  • skintbint_2
    skintbint_2 Posts: 1,822 Forumite
    no entitlement to JSA if working 16 hours per week or more, under 16 hours and that is when the wages ruling kicks in
    skintbint x
    here's tae us, wha's like us - fell few and and they're a deid"
    10k in 2010/£6988.30-69.88%@29/12/10, 11k in 2011/£897 07.04.11- fell by the wayside!!!
    12k in 2012 - £204.00 @ 4/1/12

    do not confuse me with the other skintbint who joined dec2011 - i am the original bint:rotfl:
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