unemployment benefit question

searchlight123

hi all
i need some advice on behalf of my daughters partner please. my daughter who is 26 lives with her boyfriend who is 28 in a flat they joint purchased 18 months ago (with a high mortgage). he lost his job last october and so far has not been able to find another. he was on jobseekers allowance but that finished after 6 months.
he tells me that he has been told he can claim no other unemployment benefits? so at the moment he is contributing nothing. my daughter has a good job thankfully (earning around £38k) but is finding this situation extremely tough financially (their mortgage alone is over £1200 a month). they have no children, but i cannot see how he cannot be entitled to at least some unemployment benefit. he has up to this point always worked and paid into the system.
is it correct that my daughter has to support him in entirety? or is there something he could / should be claiming to assist here. also if he should be getting anything could it be backdated from when the jobseekers allowance ended?
many thanks for any advice here as i am not sure where else i can seek these answers.

Oldernotwiser

I'm afraid he has been advised correctly. After the 6 months of contributions based JSA, all benefits are means tested and your daughter's income is to high for him to get anything.

kingfisherblue

Your daughter's boyfriend received contributions based JSA, but this ends after six months. As your daughter's income is quite high, he will not be entitled to receive income based JSA, or , as far as I am aware, any other benefits. Your daughter and her boyfriend are a couple and are treated as such by the DWP. It is up to partners to support each other in circumstances such as this. It would be a different scenario if your daughter was low paid.

DX2

This is correct he would have been entitled to CB JSA for six months then he would have been moved onto IB JSA and as your daughter earn £38k a year and they are a couple he will no longer be entitled to get any benefits.

searchlight123

many thanks for your prompt replies.
i just thought that unemployment benefit (is that the same as job seekers allowance?) was different and that he would still be entitled to that whilst he is seeking re-employment.
thanks again.

karenx

its the same thing. So no other benefit is payable