Made redundant while having a second job

ceridwen

OP would have to work at least 30 hours per week to claim WTC - unless she is a single parent of course (in which case it would be less).

So - I doubt that WTC would be payable then in fact.

So - we have a situation where the P/T job might pay even less than JSA - in which case there is a problem here.

I must say I've always regarded it as good policy to chuck any part-time job one has in advance of being told you're redundant - theres usually enough "warning signals" to be able to tell if you're likely to receive unwelcome news from the main job. The DWP cant possibly complain about one having handed in notice on a secondary job when you didnt yet know (well - hadnt been officially told anyway.....) that the main job was about to go belly-up.

clayrelou

Thanks very much for all your advice. I couldn't leave my bar job as it was over christmas and thats the busiest time of the year. Is there any chance of them knowing that I've worked there if I was to quit and wasn't to mention the second job to them if I was to sign on? It is coming into January which means theres not going to be many hours available. Also travel is an issue as it costs me £7 a shift to get there which didn't bother me when I had my full time job. Thanks again

rupee99

The second job is likely to have left a paper trail, tax/NI etc. Quite apart from that you really don't want to get involved with benefit fraud, do you?

ceridwen

It does look rather like you will have to arrange to get sacked from the second job:cool:

Then it wouldnt count with the DWP

....goes off racking brains as to the best way to get them to sack you...there IS always some way somehow to give an employer the idea that it would be best for them to do that...depends on the employer as to what that is...

Hmmm...in a bar job it might possibly be something along the lines of frequently being too busy chatting to "visiting friends" to get round to serving the customers much.....:cool:

I know, I know - one should be able to be honest about it and just hand in notice - but then you could be up against that benefit disqualification for up to 26 weeks - even though it was the secondary job - not the main job - that you had resigned from...

terryw

ceridwen wrote: »

It does look rather like you will have to arrange to get sacked from the second job:cool:

Then it wouldnt count with the DWP

....goes off racking brains as to the best way to get them to sack you...there IS always some way somehow to give an employer the idea that it would be best for them to do that...depends on the employer as to what that is...

Hmmm...in a bar job it might possibly be something along the lines of frequently being too busy chatting to "visiting friends" to get round to serving the customers much.....:cool:

I know, I know - one should be able to be honest about it and just hand in notice - but then you could be up against that benefit disqualification for up to 26 weeks - even though it was the secondary job - not the main job - that you had resigned from...

I have gut feeling that just leaving the second part-time job before actually leaving the full-time job would not affect the eligibility for JSA. After all, doing two jobs is just too tiring and it makes the JSA more likely to find full-time work if longer hours are available for work.

I am sure one of the JSA staff who frequent this forum will be along to confirm (or otherwise)

Wonderful100

ceridwen wrote: »

It does look rather like you will have to arrange to get sacked from the second job:cool:

Then it wouldnt count with the DWP

....goes off racking brains as to the best way to get them to sack you...there IS always some way somehow to give an employer the idea that it would be best for them to do that...depends on the employer as to what that is...

Hmmm...in a bar job it might possibly be something along the lines of frequently being too busy chatting to "visiting friends" to get round to serving the customers much.....:cool:

I know, I know - one should be able to be honest about it and just hand in notice - but then you could be up against that benefit disqualification for up to 26 weeks - even though it was the secondary job - not the main job - that you had resigned from...

Only being made redundant would count, if the OP is finished for anything you describe it would count against them as it's classed as misconduct and they still would not be able to claim JSA or anything else for that matter.

If work is low asking to be laid off is by far the better and only option.

Wonderful100

terryw wrote: »

I have gut feeling that just leaving the second part-time job before actually leaving the full-time job would not affect the eligibility for JSA. After all, doing two jobs is just too tiring and it makes the JSA more likely to find full-time work if longer hours are available for work.

I am sure one of the JSA staff who frequent this forum will be along to confirm (or otherwise)

That sounds like a good option but if the OP has already been redundant it's probably too late now and they will still be deemed as leaving a job of their own accord. If they had left prior to being made redundant it would have most probably been fine.