A wasted day thanks to Asda :(

Lizzieb151

I would write a letter and highlight the problem just so they are aware of how it affects people.
I have just helped my 2 brother in laws fill in an online application for shelf stackers at ASDA only for them to get an automated rejection response and told that they can't apply now for 6 months even though the store is still advertising the vacancies which I find highly annoying!!

MrsMalthouse

Chloboshoka wrote: »

I would have gone for it anyway.

How would you have lived though when they laid you off after 5 weeks? I am honestly interested in knowing for myself.

liney

Yes the money would be taken off your benefits, but in the mean time you would have been working for your money and the claim would still be live. After the 5 weeks with such a huge employer there may have been the opportunity for further work.


Just edited to say: Surely as IB is not means tested, it's your husband who would declare work if it was done, not you. I assume you are claiming JSA meaning you would declare the money to them on your own behalf, do the temp work with the claim open, and your DH's IB wouldn't be affected?

MrsMalthouse

Yes but what people can't seem to understand is that "may" and "possibly" and "chance of" a job means risking my families' food and shelter for several weeks! Please somebody explain how they think I can afford to risk that?! Would any of you risk your children's health on the "possibility/chance of" a job?

charlie792

I had a similar thing a few weeks ago, applied for a job online, turned up at the magic interview thing...stuck some baloons together and was told there was no jobs avaliable we would be told if we were going to be interviewed again if anything came up...two weeks later I still hadn't heard and phoned them to be told I was on a waiting list if any jobs came up! I was not impressed why advertise jobs they don't even have

liney

Lizzieb151 wrote: »

I would write a letter and highlight the problem just so they are aware of how it affects people.
I have just helped my 2 brother in laws fill in an online application for shelf stackers at ASDA only for them to get an automated rejection response and told that they can't apply now for 6 months even though the store is still advertising the vacancies which I find highly annoying!!

From the employers point of view, what can change between now and next week to make them more suitable? 6 months is time to gain relevant experience.

liney

MrsMalthouse wrote: »

Yes but what people can't seem to understand is that "may" and "possibly" and "chance of" a job means risking my families' food and shelter for several weeks! Please somebody explain how they think I can afford to risk that?! Would any of you risk your children's health on the "possibility/chance of" a job?

There "was" a job for 5 weeks. You could have worked for 5 weeks and kept your claim "live" and although you wouldn't have recieved any benefits you would have earnt more so would have been better off for those 5 weeks, and back in your current situation at the end of them.

You do this for the "chance of" being better off for much longer than 5 weeks.

I may be wrong, but I really would speak to the JS and ask them if you working does affect your DH's IB because there are an awful lot of seasonal jobs right now that would increase your income for the short term, if nothing else.

MrsMalthouse

charlie792 wrote: »

I had a similar thing a few weeks ago, applied for a job online, turned up at the magic interview thing...stuck some baloons together and was told there was no jobs avaliable we would be told if we were going to be interviewed again if anything came up...two weeks later I still hadn't heard and phoned them to be told I was on a waiting list if any jobs came up! I was not impressed why advertise jobs they don't even have

What an odd thing to do! Bet you were :mad:

MrsMalthouse

liney wrote: »

There "was" a job for 5 weeks. You could have worked for 5 weeks and kept your claim "live" and although you wouldn't have recieved any benefits you would have earnt more so would have been better off for those 5 weeks, and back in your current situation at the end of them.

You do this for the "chance of" being better off for much longer than 5 weeks.

I may be wrong, but I really would speak to the JS and ask them if you working does affect your DH's IB because there are an awful lot of seasonal jobs right now that would increase your income for the short term, if nothing else.

I've got to go out now so can't reply again 'til tomorrow but I did go to the Job Centre to query whether I was allowed to go to work and see if they could help me before I got the interview. They said that I could earn £20 and then it is taken out of my husband's money. If I got a full time job-which is what we need to be better off and not on benefits-he would lose his money altogether. So I'm not able to take the job according to the JC's advice as I would have no money after the 5 weeks. HTH.

olias

I may be wrong, but I suspect the OP will be on more benefits than just her husbands IB - Income support, CT benefit, Child tax credits etc etc, and these would be cut if she were to work.

Not sure what all the posts refer to when they talk about a claim still being 'live'? - possibly JS? In my experience most benefits are stopped completely when you start work and you then have to re apply from scratch when that work ends, hence having what can be a substantial delay (up to 2 months in my case!) before they are reinstated. The point is, without savings, what do you live on for that period?

I have often wondered where temp work is concerned, why benefits cannot just be suspended (surely that could be done with just a click of a mouse on a computer?) and then reinstated again with just another click of a mouse when the job ends. Surely all that would be required to do this would be a decleration by the claimant that there circumstances have not changed since they last claimed (which could be done online). This would encourage more people to take on temp work as it would avoid the problems that the OP (and me, as well as countless others) have experienced or could experience, by avoiding any interruption in cashflow for the claimant.

Olias