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diffg88

A couple of months ago I was offered a new job so I handed in my notice at my previous place of work.

On the friday before I was due to start work (the next monday) at the new job my start date was moved back a week, and then this happened on two other occasions.

This meant I was out of work for a few weeks that month so found it very difficult to get by. I was advised to enroll for JSA as I did not know how long the start date would be delayed for.

My claim was denied as 'I left my previous job voluntarily'.

After numerous exchanges of letters whereby I explained the situation - That I had left my job as I was due to start work the following week - I have got nowhere.
I have now been told I can not dispute this as I am now back in work, and it would only be if I began to claim benefits.

I am very unhappy as I believe I should be entitled to this money. It si the first and only thing I have ever claimed for and the situation was outside of my control.

What should I do?

Thank you!

wealdroam

diffg88 wrote: »

A couple of months ago I was offered a new job so I handed in my notice at my previous place of work.

On the friday before I was due to start work (the next monday) at the new job my start date was moved back a week, and then this happened on two other occasions.

This meant I was out of work for a few weeks that month so found it very difficult to get by. I was advised to enroll for JSA as I did not know how long the start date would be delayed for.

My claim was denied as 'I left my previous job voluntarily'.

After numerous exchanges of letters whereby I explained the situation - That I had left my job as I was due to start work the following week - I have got nowhere.
I have now been told I can not dispute this as I am now back in work, and it would only be if I began to claim benefits.

I am very unhappy as I believe I should be entitled to this money. It si the first and only thing I have ever claimed for and the situation was outside of my control.

What should I do?

Thank you!

This DirectGov webpage says...

Who can get Jobseeker's Allowance?

To get Jobseeker's Allowance you must be:

• available for, capable of and actively seeking work
• etc, etc...

Looks like you fail at the first hurdle.

You weren't seeking work, were you?

Also, if you leave your job voluntarily, there is a waiting period, I have forgotten how long but it is several weeks, before you can claim.

Also, when you can claim, the first three days aren't paid.

dookar

34384 Claimants may have left employment because they had firm offers of other employment to start at once. But such claimants may have to claim JSA because
1. the offers fell through unexpectedly or
2. the new employment did not last very long. 34385 Such claimants will have just cause for leaving unless
1.
the offers were cancelled before they left their existing employment and
1.1 they could have stayed in their existing employment or
1.2 they did not ask their employer whether they could stay or
2.
they changed their minds and decided not to take the new job and 1.1 or 1.2 applies.
34386 Sometimes claimants have left employment because they had firm offers of other employment to start shortly, but not immediately. They may then claim JSA because
1.
they changed their original intention not to claim JSA during the interval or
2.
the offer fell through and they are claiming JSA for longer than they expected.
They do not have just cause for leaving, because they left their original employment before they needed to. But if claimants would have had just cause under DMG 34384 if the offers had been to start at once, the DM should limit the period of the sanction to the length of the interval which the claimants originally thought would occur between the employments. If this is less than one week, a sanction of one week should be imposed.

baza52

nice cut n paste but you got the formatting all wrong.

dookar

baza52 wrote: »

nice cut n paste but you got the formatting all wrong.

Did you think I was trying to pretend it was my own wording?


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