Advice please re recently unemployed daughter who is living at home. 31 October 2010 at 10:56AM in Benefits & Tax Credits 7 replies 1K views

amistupid

For the past three years, she is now 21 years, my daughter has had various temporary employment paying tax and NI. For the past year she has been working as a cleaner in the morning and as bar staff at night. She lost both jobs this week due to cut backs. :mad:

She feels embarrassed about having to consider benefits, but the job vacancies are now so rare in our area, she may have to.

She lives at home, can she claim anything until she finds other employment?

noelphobic

She should be able to claim Job Seekers Allowance. If her NI contributiions are OK she would be able to get this as contribution based, if her NI contributions aren't sufficient then she should be able to get it as a means tested benefit, assuming she doesn't have a large amount of savings.

DX2

amistupid wrote: »

She lives at home, can she claim anything until she finds other employment?

She would be able to claim Jobseekers allowance.
Can be done online: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Diol1/DoItOnline/DG_178228

Vader123

She won't be able to claim any help with housing costs/rent as she lives with her parents. The JSA is meant for living costs so make sure you take some off her for board.

Vader

Kimitatsu

Firstly tell her not to feel embarrassed At 21 she has a whole lifetime of paying into the tax system to go and she will more than repay any benefits she claims now.

She needs to claim so that she has some money to attend job interviews, can afford basic living costs etc, and as has been said she will be eligible for contributions based JSA for the first 26 weeks and should she need it income based for the following period, although from the sounds of it I would imagine that she will take any sort of job right now!

If she is on benefits there are also training course that she can take part time free of charge at her local college (as they are only part time, if she does find employment then she would be able to continue with them) so perhaps she could look at that too so she doesnt feel that she is doing nothing?

Good luck in her job hunting :T

noelphobic

I think that claiming JSA also means that her NI contributions will be made for her which could be important in the future if she needs to claim other benefits.

amistupid

Thanks for your help everyone.

Mojisola

noelphobic wrote: »

I think that claiming JSA also means that her NI contributions will be made for her which could be important in the future if she needs to claim other benefits.

The credits she will get from JSA will only protect her pension. They won't give her access to other benefits.