JSA cancelled? Help!!!

dmg24

frank_begbie wrote: »

I've just got a letter saying my JSA has been suspended until November (21 weeks) for not applying for a certain job.

I was given 2 jobs to apply for, one in the town where I live, the other 10 miles away.

The one nearest to me was more money and less expense for me to get to, so I only applied for that one (just common sense to me)

When asked at the Jobcentre on my next signing day, I explained that I would have been out of pocket with all the travelling expenses, so didn't apply for the out of town job.

I am currently looking into appealing the decision.

It seems to me that the Decision Makers are stopping peoples benefit for the slightest excuse. It doesn't matter to them if the decision was right or wrong they just do it anyway.
If you appeal and the decision gets overturned, so what?

Its all about saving money for the Government, and they don't care if people are suffering.

Common sense would be to apply for every suitable job. Ten miles is not far, you have no grounds for appeal.

Indie_Kid

Aren't you meant to travel up to an hour or so on JSA?

sp1987

Ten miles is nothing to commute (providing you are not for some reason incapable of travel, which you don't state).

You only applied for one job? Did you think you would get it? If so, you won't need to worry about JSA anyway.

One job application a week (or is it two weeks? how often do people get given jobs to follow up??) is probably about 10 less than an employed person looking for a new job would put in, let alone someone who has the full days to spend applying. Even if the forms were long, boring and lengthy asking psycho-analytical questions about your favourite animal, you can make a decent effort in an hour or two? I remember some of my trainee forms took 3-4+ hours if I really wanted that position, or one hour if I was just trying to spread my net a bit wider and hope I caught something (especially when you can copy and paste a lot of the about me bits to save a few minutes). I didn't even have the lure of JSA as a reason to fill them out.

Unfair is having money stopped when you are applying but not getting jobs, unfair is not applying to one job and nothing else. I know it is Job seekers allowance and not Jobs seekers allowance but there's no reason to take it so literally.

dmg24

frank_begbie wrote: »

I've just got a letter saying my JSA has been suspended until November (21 weeks) for not applying for a certain job.

I was given 2 jobs to apply for, one in the town where I live, the other 10 miles away.

The one nearest to me was more money and less expense for me to get to, so I only applied for that one (just common sense to me)

When asked at the Jobcentre on my next signing day, I explained that I would have been out of pocket with all the travelling expenses, so didn't apply for the out of town job.

I am currently looking into appealing the decision.

It seems to me that the Decision Makers are stopping peoples benefit for the slightest excuse. It doesn't matter to them if the decision was right or wrong they just do it anyway.
If you appeal and the decision gets overturned, so what?

Its all about saving money for the Government, and they don't care if people are suffering.

Common sense would be to apply for every suitable job. Ten miles is not far, you have no grounds for appeal.

dmg24

Before anybody thinks I'm mental (ok, we all know I'm mental!), there is some weird bug today that keeps reposting things. It wasn't me!

Snakeeyes21

dmg24 wrote: »

Before anybody thinks I'm mental (ok, we all know I'm mental!), there is some weird bug today that keeps reposting things. It wasn't me!

I was thinking people were being odd double posting today.
I might do it just to annoy people

Snakeeyes21

dmg24 wrote: »

Before anybody thinks I'm mental (ok, we all know I'm mental!), there is some weird bug today that keeps reposting things. It wasn't me!

I was thinking people were being odd double posting today.
I might do it just to annoy people :rotfl::p

elainey_2

Just one question - is your claim a joint claim? If it is, and it's just you that has been sanctioned - surely your partner should, for the week that you've sanctioned, shoud receive JSA at the single person rate? Just a thought...

Love elaine xx

FactualGnome

Mr_Falling_Star wrote: »

In the meantime claim JSA hardship by contacting the Jobcentre on Monday morning.

http://thesite.mobi/homelawandmoney/money/benefitsandtax/jsacomplications

Assuming this is a FTA sanction, Hardship wont apply as they dont pay the 1st 2 weeks of a hardship, so technically if you succeed in getting hardship it would be 4 weeks before you receive any money

frank_begbie

KimYeovil wrote: »

This is great news. I hope they throw the appeal out whilst laughing to your face. You refused to apply for a vacancy. Workshy chancer.

Because I would have been worse off. Where's the sense in that?

Just wait until your out of work and they push you into a job where you can't afford to pay all your bills.