can they help us

tinktinktinkerbell

me and my partner are unemployed but have had no JSA for 6 and a half weeks

phoned up the benefit enquiry people a lot only to be told the same things 'its with the decision makers' these 'decision makers' apparently cant be contacted (i asked today for their number only to be told that)

so me and my bf were thinking of going to the local CAB to see what they can do

would they be able to do anything or are we wasting our time?

karenx

why is it with the desision makers? Are you getting a sanction etc?

tinktinktinkerbell

karenx wrote: »

why is it with the desision makers? Are you getting a sanction etc?

something to do with us being self employed

whats a sanction?

missmontana

If you are both self employed then why are you claiming Job seekers Allowance??

tinktinktinkerbell

missmontana wrote: »

If you are both self employed then why are you claiming Job seekers Allowance??

we were self employed, we had to end the business as we ran out of money

karenx

a sanction is a stop they can putnon your jsa if they feel you have intentionally made youself unemployed.
if you were self employed and only paying class 2 ni you could find your not entitled to jsa and that's why its went to the desision makers

tinktinktinkerbell

karenx wrote: »

a sanction is a stop they can putnon your jsa if they feel you have intentionally made youself unemployed.
if you were self employed and only paying class 2 ni you could find your not entitled to jsa and that's why its went to the desision makers

oh then no we havnt got a sanction

and we were exempt from NI but then again we arnt claiming contribution based JSA which is the only one NI effects

dmg24

It is usual for previously SE claims to be referred to a DM. Unfortunately in some areas it is not unusual for a normal claim to take six weeks, so yours may well take a few weeks longer. TBH there is little that CAB can do.

If you have no income in the meantime, you could apply for a Crisis Loan?

tinktinktinkerbell

dmg24 wrote: »

It is usual for previously SE claims to be referred to a DM. Unfortunately in some areas it is not unusual for a normal claim to take six weeks, so yours may well take a few weeks longer. TBH there is little that CAB can do.

If you have no income in the meantime, you could apply for a Crisis Loan?

i dont see why it should take this long though, they have all the paper work, all the have to do is look at it and decide

im applying for our second crisis loan tomorrow but tbh we are going to get out phone cut off and weve got npower chasing us (we arnt on them now but we owe them money)

dmg24

tinktinktinkerbell wrote: »

i dont see why it should take this long though, they have all the paper work, all the have to do is look at it and decide

im applying for our second crisis loan tomorrow but tbh we are going to get out phone cut off and weve got npower chasing us (we arnt on them now but we owe them money)

You are not the only claimant!

tinktinktinkerbell

dmg24 wrote: »

You are not the only claimant!

didnt say were were but it still should not take 7 weeks