Sign on dole / benefits during summer as a student?

twinkle162

This may seem like a crazy idea, but technically surely the student loans only cover the term period, if you're having problems finding a summer job? entitlement to some sort of job seeking allowance??

The_One_Who

Student loans cover the full year, hence why the final payment is slightly more and why your loan entitlement is lower in the final year.

terryw

It used to be possible for students to sign on during the holidays but this was done away with many moons ago.

iamana1ias

terryw wrote: »

It used to be possible for students to sign on during the holidays but this was done away with many moons ago.

It used to be that students would get summer jobs to pay their way during holidays too. Seems that habit has died :mad:

AnxiousMum

Job seekers allowance is for those seeking full time work. As you're a student returning the following year, you're not in that position are you though? Learn to budget your student loan better, and get networking to find some summer work!

terryw

AnxiousMum wrote: »

Job seekers allowance is for those seeking full time work. As you're a student returning the following year, you're not in that position are you though? Learn to budget your student loan better, and get networking to find some summer work!

I have got to agree with your post and have thanked you for it. But,purely on a technicality, the OP fulfils the criteria of your first sentence. He is looking for full-time work albeit for a short-period.

terryw

OP,

Please take this post in the spirit that it is offered. I am not having a go at you in any shape or form.
Just an old crinkly trying to give genuine advice to a younger person.

I was 25 when I went university. I had been in really a boring civil service position from age 16. I loved the university holidays and earned money doing all-sorts of different things. I did the following:
1. Made Pepsi-cola
2. Made pickled onions (the absolute pits!)
3. Took money in at a tunnel fee booth
4. Checked lorries entering said tunnel
5. Helped to run an adventure playground
6. Taxi-driving
7. Relief office work
8. Driving instruction (where I picked up the official qualification so that for years afterwards I could earn a bob or two if times were hard)
9. Security guard in a factory at nights
10. Ran a market stall selling end-of-ranges
12. Assisted the Xmas crush at the GPO
13. Hod-carrying (not recommended....bl**dy hard)
14. Cleaning petrol tankers (hard but very well-paid)
and probably more that I have forgot.

The one job that I turned down (although my old boss offered it!) was casual work in the civil service!)

I could have signed on for a few quid a week (£60 by today's standards) but I earned a hellava lot more working, and I learned a great many things that are not available from the best self-help books in the library.

Just be careful not to sell your soul for the potage offered by the system (if any).

In life, the ONLY things worth having are those that you have made yourself or that you, personally, have earned the money to pay for. Nothing else is worth a lump of cabbage-white butterfly sh*t.

Mankysteve

iamana1ias wrote: »

It used to be that students would get summer jobs to pay their way during holidays too. Seems that habit has died :mad:

Other way around it used to be students used to got the dole on holidays and now they have to get summer jobs.

Oldernotwiser

Mankysteve wrote: »

Other way around it used to be students used to got the dole on holidays and now they have to get summer jobs.

Students haven't been able to claim benefits during the holidays since the 70s but most people worked rather than claimed them anyway.

ceh209

OTOH, you can sign on as soon as you finish uni (not sure if it's when term finishes or when you graduate though)

Lots of people I know did this... even though they had jobs lined up to go to in September/October... not sure if that's entirely (morally) right though...

I didn't as I just wanted a summer off, btw. :cool:

Blacksheep1979

and students wonder why they aren't being offered high paying jobs straight out of uni - maybe because you've got no work experience at all and obviously no work ethic as you just want cash handed to you...