Unemployed and entitled to nothing

dktreesea

Imho, some of the advice and comments on here about your OH being out of work is inapporpiate. I don't see how "getting firmer with your oh" is going to help him get a job at all. It is probably going to really demoralise him. So what if there are jobs out there? It doesn't mean that most of the people looking are even qualified for them, let alone could get an interview. Does your OH have any qualifications?

wok_boy

NASA wrote: »

So you basically lied when you said you only got £2 a week. Your actually in receipt of a lot more than that.

There's a difference between lying and not realising how much benefits you are getting, many people will just look at the JSA portion and actually forget the benefits that their local authority are giving them.

Also can you think straight and remember everything when you're under a lot of stress?

NASA_2

wok_boy wrote: »

Also can you think straight and remember everything when you're under a lot of stress?

Yes.......

wok_boy

NASA wrote: »

Yes.......

Wow, you're one in a million then.

SUPERMCNATURAL

if he cant find work can you not take on a job , im in my final year of uni and due to partner having surgery i took on a second part time job. its hard goin doing 2 jobs and full time uni but the bills have to be paid some how, obviously you arent gonna get anymore benefits so........., also have you applied to your uni's hardship fund ? its a pretty simple process, i sat down with one of the advisors at uni, brought in all my current bills and bank statements, we then went through an income and expenditure form, then photocopied all the bills and statements then all you do is hand in completed forms , at my uni turn around on that was a few weeks

kates08

Hi

could you not get a job? throughout all four years of my degree I supported myself by working in a supermarket in the evenings and weekends - it wasn't great work but I took home about £600 a month after tax. I don't think there were any of my friends at Uni (apart from the one's who's mummy and daddy gave them a large allowance) who didn't have to work to supplement their student loan.

bestpud

I agree it would help with the debts if the op got a job but tbh I think the focus needs to be on her partner first!

What half decent bloke would expect his partner to work and study while he does sweet FA to help out!!

starnight_2

OK I'm going to put my two cents in. Firstly take a look at your oh cv, if he's going for these interviews and not getting any jobs I'd think about where he is going wrong in them. Contact the places he has had interviews and ask for feedback. Then use that to help him improve his chances of getting a job.

Secondly try the uni for hardship funds, though it won't be much it might help you get through this tough time. Also think about taking on bar work or something yourself just a couple of night a week if you can.

astly you and your oh need to sit down and see what you can do without. Do you need your mobiles? Are their cheaper ones out there, even just pay as you go until you have more money. Do you need your landline? Do you have sky? Anything you can think of to cut back until you get yourselves sorted out.

As someone else has suggested post up an SOA on the debt board and see if anyone there can offer more help.

Fang_3

vickyw wrote: »

I really need your help.
My partner and I are in a lot of trouble. We've lived together for two years, been our current place for about a year. He was made redundant in October and started a claim for JSA straight away and we were told it had to be a joint claim. We found out then that he is only entitled to an insulting £2 per week JSA because I am a student and they worked out my student loan 'income' as £98 per week. It isn't an income, I am a STUDENT and can't support myself financially, let alone my partner. We do recieve £360 Housing Benefit per month but that is £90 short of our rent.

We put an appeal in to the JSA and found out today (though it's not official yet) that no, we still can't have any money.We have lived off £368 a month since October. And yes I do recieve a lump sum of student loan every 4 months or so but we are in so much debt, rent/utilities (both our mobiles are regularly cut off, debt collectors calling, power and water been threatened to be cut off) that when I do get my loan, it all goes straight out to the many, many people we owe money to leaving us with little or no money.

I am two years into my course and think I'm going to have to drop out or leave for a year to get a job/sign on so we can actually afford to live. It is a disgusting state of affairs, I am at university trying to better myself and being punished for it.

I'm looking for a solution to our problem. Does anybody have any ideas of what else we can do or what else we might be entitled to, we are completely desparate.
Thank you.

You pay £90 A MONTH rent. How exactly are you struggling? Tell your OH to get off his !!!! and get down to town every single day until he has a job, and you do the same. Don't expect the rest of us to pay for you when there's nothing stopping you from working.

Doom_and_Gloom

UnderPressure wrote: »

I have to be honest, your BF has been out of work since last October, nigh on 8 months, and he is really asking you to believe that in 8 months there has not been 1 single job he could have took? Come on now surely you cant actually believe this? Im sure he is making the right noises in looking for work but with your education commitments it is impossible for you to be with him all of the time and actually seeing his effort in finding work. I would suggest that he is simply saying the right things to you to make you THINK he is doing everything he can when the actual reality is much much different.

I think you are being really harsh here. Years ago when I was on JSA I was on it for about 8 months before I got a job and I did a lot to try and get one. In the time I was on JSA there was not a single job offer - only interveiws and nothing more heard. It's a lot worse in my area to try and get a job now. Many places are shutting and this can't be the only area it's happening. The OP's partner could well be doing all he can but there just might not be any jobs in the area he can get to when you factor in everything.

UnderPressure wrote: »

There IS work out there, the problem is people think certain jobs and certain pay levels are "beneath them" when in reality any old job for 40 hours a wekk paying only minimum wage would make a HUGE different to your lives. I am not saying he may be being untruthful purposely, maybe he has got himself into the way of thinking that something "decent" will come along soon, when in reality he is wasting far too much time waiting................

When I was on JSA years ago even looking and applying for cleaning jobs didn't get me a job faster. He could well be looking at the jobs you are on about.

UnderPressure wrote: »

I would try and put sometime on 1 side and sit down with him, goto the job centre website ans sift through all the jobs in your area with him, same with the local newspapers, ring the local agencies up on his behalf and arrange interivews with them for him, sadly you cannot be with him at interview time to make sure he is putting the right attitude across but he HAS to realise it is now make or break he has to step up and get himself some kind of paid work you simply cannot continue the way you are.........

The last job I had, before my disability made it impossible to work, was with an agency. Weeks after I couldn't work anymore the agency got rid of half the people on their books! They were not the only agency in the area to do this. Some agencies like having vast numbers sitting on their books doing nothing though but all you could end up being is a sitting duck on the book waiting for a job from them that will never come. Many agencies are overloaded with workers and they don't have the work for all of them. Many times we would be told we would be going in to work an 8 hour shift only to get a 4 hour shift. I know work is work but it is very sporadic and the hours are not certain even when you have work.