would you do this on JSA!

red_devil

Ive posted on the other board but not many replies? would you work for £5. Ive been offered some work but i can only keep five pounds. I am also worriedit might mess up my claim as well when i tell them i have earnt some money?

would you bother?

dmg24

red_devil wrote: »

Ive posted on the other board but not many replies? would you work for £5. Ive been offered some work but i can only keep five pounds. I am also worriedit might mess up my claim as well when i tell them i have earnt some money?

would you bother?

You are not working for £5, you are working for whatever you earn ... Unless you aspire to a life on benefits?

red_devil

you are working for five pounds thats all you get to keep. This amount is paltry and has been the same for years i have been told.

Anyway i asked what other people have done would do in this situation thats what i am interested in not people saying unhelpful things.

cally6008

what's the job and how many hours would you be working ? anything over 16hours n you'd have to sign off

red_devil

cally6008 wrote: »

what's the job and how many hours would you be working ? anything over 16hours n you'd have to sign off

under 16 hours making some calls.

mr.savage

red_devil wrote: »

Ive posted on the other board but not many replies? would you work for £5. Ive been offered some work but i can only keep five pounds. I am also worriedit might mess up my claim as well when i tell them i have earnt some money?

would you bother?

never again, for the reasons below.

dmg24 wrote: »

You are not working for £5, you are working for whatever you earn ... Unless you aspire to a life on benefits?

Very patronising.....it isn't that simple as you can see from my experience.

red_devil wrote: »

you are working for five pounds thats all you get to keep. This amount is paltry and has been the same for years i have been told.

Anyway i asked what other people have done would do in this situation thats what i am interested in not people saying unhelpful things.

I agree..


Be careful what you do. I did two days work ( 14.5 hours total. )
I asked at the jokecentre before I started if it would affect my claim and they said it wouldn't. I then declared the work as a one-off (which it was) when i signed on.
I filled in a declaration to this effect as well as letting them photocopy my timesheet as proof, two weeks later I got a letter saying my money has been stopped as i've told them I've got a part time job!
It has taken a lot of phone calls, letters and time to sort it out, including a letter of complaint, and still on-going.

SueC_2

red_devil wrote: »

Anyway i asked what other people have done would do in this situation thats what i am interested in not people saying unhelpful things.

If you want serious and informed replies you're going to have to provide a bit more detail.

From your initial post we could interpret either:

- Someone is offering to put you into a full time post but just give you a fiver a day/week/month/whatever; or

- Someone has asked you to babysit their small child for half an hour while they pop to the shops.

Or any variation in between. Our replies would, you would hope, be considerably different accordingly.

Forum posts are like many things in life: poor input = poor output.

red_devil

i did reply i said telephone calls 14 in total. Not a regular job.

Thanks Mr savage for honest reply thats the sort of thing i wanted to hear real experience of telling the job centre etc.

SueC_2

red_devil wrote: »

i did reply i said telephone calls 14 in total. Not a regular job.

Thanks Mr savage for honest reply thats the sort of thing i wanted to hear real experience of telling the job centre etc.

Sorry, my mistake, I thought you wanted advice, not just someone to tell you how rubbish the Job Centre are.

Good luck, whatever you decide.

Bamber19

You're working for the full £89 but if you want to see it as just the difference between that and JSA then, you'll be working for more than £5 anyway. You keep everything you earn, it would jsut be taken off your benefit pound for pound for that week (excluding the first £5 you earn.) Although your benefit is paid fortnightly it is still split into two weeks so the money you earn from this job would only be taken off one benefit week.

SO you'd receive no benefit for one of those weeks but have £89 in your pocket and still get paid £64.30 for the 2nd week. So in no sense whatsoever will you be working for £5, you could however say you're working for £24.70 (the difference between what you'd be paid for the job and the 1 week JSA you'd lose

Gingerbiscuit_2

Its always worth looking at the chance of work experience and keeping yourself busy and in the job market. It might only be 14h now but if you are liked it could be alot more in the future.