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JSA - Rapid Reclaim
blackcat78
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Hi there,
I hope someone can help / advise with the following. My parter has been signing on since January after redundancy but has not actually been getting a penny as he hadn't paid enough NI contributions for the previous year (we'd just returned to the UK). Now we are in a new tax year he should now have enough NI contributions to actually be paid something.
He's been told by a friend to call the Job Centre to sign off then call a few days later to sign back on (giving excuse of job fell through for example) and this then will be treated as a Rapid Reclaim.
I don't know whether it is better to just tell the Job Centre that he wants to make a new claim starting from now but I don't know what their procedure is for a situation like this.
By the way we're not in any way trying to cheat the system but if he's entitled to some benefit then he should receive it!
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
I hope someone can help / advise with the following. My parter has been signing on since January after redundancy but has not actually been getting a penny as he hadn't paid enough NI contributions for the previous year (we'd just returned to the UK). Now we are in a new tax year he should now have enough NI contributions to actually be paid something.
He's been told by a friend to call the Job Centre to sign off then call a few days later to sign back on (giving excuse of job fell through for example) and this then will be treated as a Rapid Reclaim.
I don't know whether it is better to just tell the Job Centre that he wants to make a new claim starting from now but I don't know what their procedure is for a situation like this.
By the way we're not in any way trying to cheat the system but if he's entitled to some benefit then he should receive it!
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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He needs NI from the previous 2 tax years to claim.Sealed pot challenge #232. Gold stars from Sue-UU - :staradmin :staradmin £75.29 banked
50p saver #40 £20 banked
Virtual sealed pot #178 £80.250 -
Oh I didn't know that - so I guess he could still not get a penny then? Grrrr!0
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The friend couldn't be more wrong.
They wouldn't use different tax years now than they did in January, and, even if they did, the claims would link0 -
I was rather dubious about the 'advice' to be honest!0
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