Going on holiday while on JSA

Amistoso_2

skintbutsolvent wrote: »

OP knows that, they were asking if the other benefits could still be claimed for that period.

that was in response to another poster...

I had answered the original question if you care to read it, but thanks for pointing that out :cool:

rhoda_baker

wintermeister wrote: »

Hi people




I booked the trip months ago when I still had a job if that's any consolation for the "I'm a taxpayer" types who always respond to things like this

Yes I've seen some of those postings too....spiteful.

hope you enjoy your holiday!:)

lewt

pollyanna24 wrote: »

Seeing as you only sign on every two weeks, you may get lucky that the day you need to sign on is almost a day when you will be back. If you miss an appointment, you could always ring up and say you were ill etc.

Not that I'm advocating fraud or anything, but a similar thing happened to my bf and it is just so much hassle to reapply.

We got the third degree as to how we could afford a holiday etc. even though we only paid for a flight by Ryanair so we could take our daughter to meet her family abroad. Seeing as he didn't have a job and I was on maternity leave, it seemed like the best time to go.

Yes. You are!

donnajunkie

pollyanna24 wrote: »

Seeing as you only sign on every two weeks, you may get lucky that the day you need to sign on is almost a day when you will be back. If you miss an appointment, you could always ring up and say you were ill etc.

Not that I'm advocating fraud or anything, but a similar thing happened to my bf and it is just so much hassle to reapply.

We got the third degree as to how we could afford a holiday etc. even though we only paid for a flight by Ryanair so we could take our daughter to meet her family abroad. Seeing as he didn't have a job and I was on maternity leave, it seemed like the best time to go.

i think its a smacked bum for you from the dudley do right squad.

supertomsk

Hi - I think I heard of a new rule that you can go abroad (within the EU) for up to 3months, if you are looking for work and still get JSA conts based paid if this is any help to anyone.

Killmark

supertomsk wrote: »

Hi - I think I heard of a new rule that you can go abroad (within the EU) for up to 3months, if you are looking for work and still get JSA conts based paid if this is any help to anyone.

Contribution-based JSA

You cannot usually get contribution-based JSA outside the EEA. However, you may be able to get contribution-based JSA in the EEA for up to three months if you:

• are entitled to contribution-based JSA on the day you go abroad
• have registered as a jobseeker for at least four weeks before you leave
• are available for work and actively seeking work in Great Britain up to the day you leave
• are going abroad to look for work
• register for work at the equivalent of a Jobcentre in the country you are going to
• follow the other country's system for claiming benefit

Income-based JSA

If you are going abroad permanently you cannot get income-based JSA.
You cannot usually get income-based JSA if your stay abroad is only temporary.

property.advert

I would phone them, never giving out your name or number (even prefix it with 141) and ask them about it or casually raise it when you next sign on. I know that if you are in another area of the country they can make arrangements for you to sign in that area and there must be dispensations for holidays but perhaps not whilst abroad.

The fact is that they will screw it all up if you tell them and you do not fit into one of their predefined slots. Thinking outside the box is frowned upon.

If they would stop you, then say you have a job interview in France or wherever. They cannot check up as they will not pay for overseas travel to attend interviews. However, they will pay for travel and overnight accommodation to travel to interview in the UK, even if your mate owns the company !

Killmark

property.advert wrote: »

If they would stop you, then say you have a job interview in France or wherever. They cannot check up as they will not pay for overseas travel to attend interviews.

This would be fraud, also they would require evidence of the interview before you could be treated as available for the period, plus the maximum permitted time would be 1 week.

donnajunkie

i am going away the week after next just for a few days. so i have filled in a going away form recently. i had forgotten how stupid the rules are. while you are away you must continue to do jobsearch. you must be contactable and you must be able to get back very quickly i.e. before the end of the same day that they contact you. the rules allow us to go anywhere in the uk. i would love to see how someone who lives in john o'groats gets back before the end of the day if they are on holiday in cornwall. they also have not taken into account that some places have no mobile phone signal. personally i am going somewhere were the phone signal is hit and miss. i rely on public transport and it takes a day to get back and due to time tables the journey has to start early in the day(so if they phoned me in the afternoon it would be 2 days before i could see them). i am going to be out on the fells all day. so technically i dont fulfill the stupid requirements. luckily the person i saw about it was very reasonable. she said we need a phone number but we wont contact you. she gave me a jobs log sheet and said just put down that you looked for work on the net while you were away. so this shows some people working in jobcentres have common sense.

foxyuk

donnajunkie wrote: »

i am going away the week after next just for a few days. so i have filled in a going away form recently. i had forgotten how stupid the rules are. while you are away you must continue to do jobsearch. you must be contactable and you must be able to get back very quickly i.e. before the end of the same day that they contact you. the rules allow us to go anywhere in the uk. i would love to see how someone who lives in john o'groats gets back before the end of the day if they are on holiday in cornwall. they also have not taken into account that some places have no mobile phone signal. personally i am going somewhere were the phone signal is hit and miss. i rely on public transport and it takes a day to get back and due to time tables the journey has to start early in the day(so if they phoned me in the afternoon it would be 2 days before i could see them). i am going to be out on the fells all day. so technically i dont fulfill the stupid requirements. luckily the person i saw about it was very reasonable. she said we need a phone number but we wont contact you. she gave me a jobs log



down that you looked for work on the net while you were away. so this shows

some people working in jobcentres have common sense.

u are entitled to 2 weeks holiday home or abroad and yu do not need to be actively seeking work in the two weeks u are away. Looking for work and available for work is 2 different things

Sad thing Is there's several people on forums that seem to think because u don't work you are not entitled to a holiday irrespective of fact that you were working for prev 20 yrs and made redundant.