Can You Claim Anything When Between School & Uni?

Kaleidoscope27

custardy wrote: »

alright Kaleidoscope27,we heard you the first time!

*grin* I'm having Internet problems. Only just realised I posted the same thing twice!

mum24boys

simmed wrote: »

I'm not going to make JSA a last option - it's what it says on the tin - cash if you're seeking a job but can't find one. I'd gladly work if I found a job July-Oct. If I did find work, would my parents child benefits/child tax credit stop?

Thanks for the advice.



Then those people should get over it and stop interfering with other people. If I'm entitled to something which can help me get through the next few years of my life, where I'm going to be working hard to make grades at a top UK university, never mind cover rent/food, damn I'm going to claim it, and moaning middle-class MSE visitors can jibe all they want, no doubt as they worry about paying off the BMW insurance, next trip to Thailand, or something equally crucial.

What a rude young man. Lets see how you view this in 10 yrs time when you have been paying top rate tax (cause you are bound to have a top rate job) and NI contributions. Get a job. Emergency budget on 22nd June you may find the rules could change so dont bank on it.
Good way to save money by not allowing students to claim!

ultrawomble

mum24boys wrote: »

Good way to save money by not allowing students to claim!

Don't be too quick to knock students. Imagine what the jobless figures for 18-21 year olds would be without the huge expansion of the higher education system.

viktory

simmed wrote: »

<snip>no doubt as they worry about paying off the BMW insurance, next trip to Thailand, or something equally crucial.

:rotfl::rotfl:

Childish assumption of the week.

AnxiousMum

If you are going to university and money is so tight, I don't understand why you are just now thinking about money! My son, also going to a top UK university, has been working in a casual job since he was 14 - maybe only 15 evenings a year doing catering, and for the past two years has been working Sundays in a local cafe. However, between the two, he has saved over £3000 to prepay his on campus accommodation for the first term (as you won't have the money from student loans to cover the first term prepayment when it needs to be paid), and so that he has money to buy his books etc., join the sports club and that kind of thing when he gets there - not whenever his loans come through. If he runs into problems like delayed student loans, he really won't have to worry for about six months.

If he came home from school last week and said 'right, I don't have to go back to school except for exams, how do I sign on for benefits' I'd be absolutely gobsmacked. It doesn't make a difference to me financially, all I get is child benefit, and that has always gone into his uni fund anyway, which he's able to save for his graduate years because of his own efforts.

I think if your first post had been on the employment boards, wondering about best ways of going to find summer employment, you would've had a vastly different response from posters than 'I'm straight out of high school, can I claim benefits'.

If you cannot afford to go to university this year, you might want to look at the option of taking a gap year, get a job for a year and then head to uni with some money in your pocket.

Oldernotwiser

ultrawomble wrote: »

Don't be too quick to knock students. Imagine what the jobless figures for 18-21 year olds would be without the huge expansion of the higher education system.

Unemployment figures would be higher but it would be much cheaper!

simmed

Kaleidoscope27 wrote: »

5 years ago I survived the summer between college and uni without JSA or a job. It can be done. It's nice to have some income so I can see where you're coming from, but being on JSA is pretty depressing. Do you really need it? It's one of the biggest farces just to open a claim, then you don't get anything until they process it (which can take 3 weeks or more). You have to sign on religiously every 2 weeks and you go on holiday out of the country and miss a signing on date, you have to sign off for the period of your holiday and sign back on afterwards. And you get talked to like you're a moron (well, not always. A lot of the time.)

For the sake of, what, 10 weeks? I wouldn't see it being worth the hassle.

Good luck with finding a job Check out shops who might want temp staff over the summer to cover busy sale periods or permanent staff's holidays.

10 weeks of JSA, to me, is a very substantial amount of money, so I see it being worth the hassle

custardy wrote: »

If? surely you are looking now?

No... Exams first.

mum24boys wrote: »

What a rude young man. Lets see how you view this in 10 yrs time when you have been paying top rate tax (cause you are bound to have a top rate job) and NI contributions. Get a job. Emergency budget on 22nd June you may find the rules could change so dont bank on it.
Good way to save money by not allowing students to claim!

Lol, I'm really not getting into a discussion on government welfare policy with someone who clearly has no idea about the subject. Leave my thread if you have nothing more to say, please.

custardy

simmed wrote: »

10 weeks of JSA, to me, is a very substantial amount of money, so I see it being worth the hassle



No... Exams first.

lol,so you cant look for work while studying?
what happens next summer,and the summers after that?
you know people have to juggle jobs,family,studying etc in the real world?

10 weeks JSA is what? £600
you can dwarf that with a bit of graft in 10 weeks

simmed

custardy wrote: »

lol,so you cant look for work while studying?
what happens next summer,and the summers after that?
you know people have to juggle jobs,family,studying etc in the real world?

My A-level exams start fully in 5 days. It's commonly said that this is the most educationally intense and stressful time period anyone faces in the normal British education system. I could look for work, yes, but for now, I'd rather just focus any intellectual effort on academia.

In answer to your questions - next summer, and the summers after that, I will probably be in university with a job. And yes, although I'm not sure you realise that.

custardy wrote: »

10 weeks JSA is what? £600
you can dwarf that with a bit of graft in 10 weeks

I didn't say otherwise. Like I've repeated many times (you might want to try reading words, that's what they're there for after all) I'd take a job than claim JSA, however if JSA is on the table as work is not available, £600 is easy enough motivation to apply for it.

bodmil

Once your CV is up to date, in the time that you've spent on this website, I'm quite sure you could have knocked off an application or two to some local companies. Applying for 20 retail jobs requires one afternoon handing out CVs.
Sending an email really doesn't take huge intellectual effort, especially to the youth of today! I should rather imagine you would like to think about something other than work for ten minutes a day anyway!