Can you claim travel expenses for interviews when on job seekers allowance?

Justicia

LadyMissA wrote: »

my job centre tell me I can not get funding for agencies

Not surprising, considering:

richdeniro wrote: »

out of the 20-30 agencies I've signed up at only a couple have kept in touch and found me interviews.

Many of them can, on occasion, be a waste of time for a dedicated jobseeker when they are just adding to their databases... :mad:

iammumtoone

Yes but you have to tell them in advance and they do not widely advertise this.

I had an interview 40 miles away and my adviser knew about it as we went though a better of at work calculation due to distance/petrol costs involved. After I attended the interview someone told me I could claim my expensives so I questioned my adviser and was told I could have done but had to fill out the form before hand, it was now too late. When I asked when she hadn't told me this as she knew I was going she said she wasn't allowed to tell people it is only available to those who know about it and that now I know I can claim next time!

HappyMJ

Chance of getting money from the Travel to Interview scheme is now nothing considering that government funding to that scheme has been stopped. There is an advisor dicretionary fund but that again is almost impossible to claim from. You must have zero money and no access to credit at all to have a slim chance of getting something.