Please help me- distraught! Job Seekers Allowance.

Sam____2

Limana68 wrote: »

Hi OP
May be you could get a job in the evenings for a few hrs a few times a wk, try your local supermarkets for vacancies? My friend does this , 6-9pm three times a wk so her hubby can look after the kids, its not a career choice or anything but she actually enjoys it, and it gets her out for a bit and hubby gets some quality time with their kids.
When my hubby was able to work he worked as a mobile carer and worked around my shifts, and he brought it around 600 per mth which helped with shopping etc.
Good luck with it all, its not easy!

Very good advice, when my kids were small I had to take on bar work 3 evenings a week, yes maybe I didn't see my OH as much as we would have liked but we had weekends together and made the most of our quality time.
There are always better options than commiting benefit fraud...

EllaKeat

It is not self righteous SW7, it is despair. We struggled terribly when my boys were young, there were no tax credits and not much support there for us at all. When he was made redundant, my oh ended up sleeping on friends sofa's so that he could work in a job that paid the minimum wage, 160 miles from home.
When he did find work close to home, he worked days and I worked in the evenings, just to make ends meet. I am not saying that these were the 'good old days', and would not want to go back to them, but it seems to me that everyone expects the state to look after them, no matter what the circumstances. Anyone in genuine need should be entitled to claim the appropriate benefits, but someone who chooses not to workshould not be in receipt of jsa. How can jsa be claimed week after week with no one at the benefits office questioning why no work has been applied for, interviews attended etc? My son signed on for 7weeks and every time he went to sign on he had to provide eveidence that he was actively seeking work. How did you get around this OP?
For the record, I am sure that many of us would have loved to have been able to retrain, go to uni, stay at home....unfortuneately we had responsibilities - and took them seriously.
For the record, I have no issue with anyone claiming benefits to which they are entitled, I just like to think that they are trying to help themselves get off benefits (if possible - I know that for some, it could never happen) and not milking the system.

To OP - I assume you and oh made a conscious decision for him to train, knowing he would have reduced salary? In that case, working in the evenings and weekends when he is at home with your child seems to be the appropriate reaction.
No doubt there would be alternative benefits you would be able to claim legitimately.

wannabemortgagefreee

laura.brennan wrote: »

Dear everyone!

I have been on Jobseekers contributory based allowance since march 2010. I signed this week and was told my payments would end at the end of this month! Great!! NOT!! I apparently am not entitled to anything else because I have a husband who works 30 hours a week- he only gets 10K a year because he is training to be a teaching assistant. I cant work because we have a 11month old son who we cant afford to put in nursery. How can they just stop the payments if that is all we are living on- we are barely scraping by! We rent a flat and that £600 pcm and bills on top of that and food etc- how can I really go back to work without working just to pay for childcare- so effectively paying to be away from my son! Its F**** up! How do these other people who are 'housed' keep getting benefits for doing !!!!!! all when my husband works and we get kicked in the gutter! Am I missing something? Am I entitled to anything- please help me if you know!

Lx

Hi, You should be entitled to over £100 per week CTC and WTC, and also on a low income you should be entitled to HB and CT benefit.
Check out the entitledto website and complete the benefit checker.

andyandflo

sh1305 wrote: »

JSA is for people looking for work - not for people who want to bring a bit of extra money in; but stay at home to look after their children.

If you are in the position of very little money coming in, and your are able to claim JSA based on your previous contributions, of course you will try anything, as long as it is not fraudelant.

I will never condone fraud whatsoever, but God helps those that help themselves!

And as for the responsibilities when claiming JSA, how do you know that if a job did come up that suited the family, then she wouldn't have taken it. I cannot believe that if she was offered a job paying £30,000pa +, she would turn it down!! Childcare could then be sorted out.

There are too many on this site that sit back in judgement on what happens in the real world, as opposed to what they feel and think is morally right or wrong.

I doubt if their morals would get in the way, if they found themselves in a similar financial situation.
As far as I was aware, this site is to advise on how to claim benefits - legally, not morally! To come up with ideas on how to solve their problems by looking at alternative benefits. Certainly not to criticise them and make them feel that their bounden duty is first towards the country and second to their family.
Geee - I do wonder sometimes if there really is any compassion left in this country, or is it that selfish that those in work are entitled to look down on those that aren't!!

Sam____2

andyandflo wrote: »

If you are in the position of very little money coming in, and your are able to claim JSA based on your previous contributions, of course you will try anything, as long as it is not fraudelant.

I will never condone fraud whatsoever, but God helps those that help themselves!

And as for the responsibilities when claiming JSA, how do you know that if a job did come up that suited the family, then she wouldn't have taken it. I cannot believe that if she was offered a job paying £30,000pa +, she would turn it down!! Childcare could then be sorted out.

There are too many on this site that sit back in judgement on what happens in the real world, as opposed to what they feel and think is morally right or wrong.

I doubt if their morals would get in the way, if they found themselves in a similar financial situation.
As far as I was aware, this site is to advise on how to claim benefits - legally, not morally! To come up with ideas on how to solve their problems by looking at alternative benefits. Certainly not to criticise them and make them feel that their bounden duty is first towards the country and second to their family.
Geee - I do wonder sometimes if there really is any compassion left in this country, or is it that selfish that those in work are entitled to look down on those that aren't!!

I take it you have read the OP? where are the rolley eyes when you need them?!!

this isn't the first thread I've read where you have encouraged benefit fraud, the one yesterday on mortgage interest payments you said the chap was correct to claim even though he wasn't living in the property, but his ex was and she was working!!! that's fraud!!!

Indie_Kid

andyandflo wrote: »

If you are in the position of very little money coming in, and your are able to claim JSA based on your previous contributions, of course you will try anything, as long as it is not fraudelant.

One of the conditions of JSA (funnily enough) is that you must be actively seeking work. If you're a stay at home parent, how are you actively seeking work?

sw67

sh1305 wrote: »

One of the conditions of JSA (funnily enough) is that you must be actively seeking work. If you're a stay at home parent, how are you actively seeking work?

If you dont claim it within one year and are not working you lose the right to claim when you do start looking for a job

Duncombe

sw67 wrote: »

I have worked and paid tax for last 27 years and apart from when my kids were young so has my wife. We have never claimed any kind of benefit apart from child benefit and family tax credits.

We saved for kids and when the savings ran low my wife started looking for a job. Thats when we were told we would not be able to claim jobseekers allowance

I did the right thing and got shafted and i will not make that mistake again so report away

Presumably your wife was unable to claim JSA because your earnings/number of hours you worked were too high?

Edit: Nevermind, answered my own question after re-reading your post. She was unable to claim Conts Based because she hadnt worked.

Although I fail to see how you were "shafted". Your wife didnt fulfil the critera for Conts Based JSA so was unable to claim. End of.

NASA_2

If your wife has been working for 27 years, why did she need to start looking for a job? And, unless she was self-employed, if she was working 27 years then she should have been entitled to JSA(C).

Gemmy_2

jazabelle wrote: »

Aren't you on the wrong benefit? You aren't seeking work, you're looking after your son.

Shouldn't you be on something like Income Support? I don't know if your husband wage excludes you from this though?

That's what i was thinking. Surly the OP isn't actually seeking work?