What help can i get

sjtaylor_1999

Hi all,

I am 29 year old and was made redundant on Monday after 10 years with the same firm. I have applied for contribution based JSA. I have a partner who I live with he earns approx 20K. We are expecting our baby in April. Are we able to claim anything else at the moment or when she goes onto SMP. We have never claimed anything before but this is a scary time as it looks like after her first 6 weeks we could be down to 65 JSa and 124 SMP. That is not a lot of money with bills etc.

Sorry for the long post but this is all new to us.

thanks

Aarons_mummy

http://www.turn2us.org.uk/benefits_search.aspx

If you put your details into the above link then you can see what/how much roughly you could be entitled to.

nannytone_2

an income of 20k is too much for wtc. jsa and then smp is it tl after the baby is born. then ctc and cb.
you might get a little hb/lha/ctb but if you do, it will be very little

Oldernotwiser

If you haven't found a job when the baby's born, you could always stay at home and look after it whilst your partner goes back to work, particularly as you could be unlikely to get means tested JSA when your 6 months on CB JSA ends.

welshmoneylover

sjtaylor_1999 wrote: »

Hi all,

I am 29 year old and was made redundant on Monday after 10 years with the same firm. I have applied for contribution based JSA. I have a partner who I live with he earns approx 20K. We are expecting our baby in April. Are we able to claim anything else at the moment or when she goes onto SMP. We have never claimed anything before but this is a scary time as it looks like after her first 6 weeks we could be down to 65 JSa and 124 SMP. That is not a lot of money with bills etc.

Sorry for the long post but this is all new to us.

thanks

How can you be down to an income of 65 jsa or 124 smp when you've a partner earning £20k?

You're not making much sense to enable a better answer.

clairec79

When the partner goes on maternity leave she will only be getting SMP rather than the 20,000 she was on before - so after the weeks at 90% their income will be the SMP plus JSA(C) - least that's how I read it

Oldernotwiser

clairec79 wrote: »

When the partner goes on maternity leave she will only be getting SMP rather than the 20,000 she was on before - so after the weeks at 90% their income will be the SMP plus JSA(C) - least that's how I read it

Which is why I suggested she went back to work and they'd be living on £20,000.