Signing off JSA with no job...

McKneff

You should have given the circumstances then in your first post, you would probably have had different answers.

How can you expect correct and factual help if you don't give the full story.

iluvmarmite

Whats the problem with him signing off? If he's going to be looking for work himself, is going to be supported and doesn't mind not getting free health related benefits then surely it's a good thing, wether it's for stress reason or not, people moan about others getting benefits and taking tax payers money yet when someone is willing not to do this he is encouraged (by some) to continue signing on!

midnight_express

What is the world coming to when someone is slagged off for not claiming benefits. Lots of people who are out of work don't claim.

As far as NI conts go you only need 30 years to get a state pension. He can get a pension forecast from directgov.

supersezzie

Well I'm pleased to see a lot of helpful comments and some sense on here at last too! Thanks guys...felt a bit like he was being criminalised by some just then! (And there were a lot of you that spoke sense originally...I did notice and thanks for that!

McKneff, I hear your point, but I stuck to the facts and asked what I needed to know - if signing off has any implications other than NI payments. I don't see why there should be a need to justify anyone's choices - I just wanted an answer! Which I now have, along with a whole debate that seems to have been sparked... :rotfl:

c-m

Thinking about this one. If claiming JSA can some one sign off, for whatever reason say they went to stay with family abroad, or took on full time voluntary work for a while?

Could they then sign back on later? Or would that period of being signed off count against them?

Jobseeeker

Supersezzie there is no problem with him not signing on.

There will be no accusation of him doing cash in hand work. I didn't sign on when I was made redundant neither did my ex colleagues. Nothing happened. I'm now starting my own business and there have been no questions from HMRC regarding this

~Chameleon~

McKneff wrote: »

You should have given the circumstances then in your first post, you would probably have had different answers.

How can you expect correct and factual help if you don't give the full story.

Because the answer would be no different whether you had the extra information or not. She was asking for fact not opinion. Why should someone's response be any different?

She asked: Are there any implications, other than having to keep up with NI contributions?

That is all that needed to be answered.

chris1973

I know the Jobcentre is a depressing place

A lot of workplaces aren't exactly a barrel of laughs and non stop Mardi Gras either, and are fraught with many challenges and stresses, and you are stuck in them 40 hours+ a week. Despite this, a lot of people manage to do it though, and generations before, have done so successfully for 45 + years.

Let me see, a boiling hot shop floor working next to molten metal day after day when its 80f - 90f outside, or a quick, occasional trip into the Job Centre, hmmmmm let me think....

Good Grief, if a trip to the Job Centre is stressful god help him when he finally grows up, gets some responsibilities and finds some real problems to worry about.

Jog On

Horseunderwater

To the OP - has your friend not appealed his ESA rejection - he has 30 days to do so, but may be able to still submit a late appeal if there is a good reason why he did not do so immediately. That is another way forward possibly.

c-m

Is it a simple process to sign off for a while, then sign back on, or will they say well you signed off before you found work, even though you still haven't found work you can't sign back on?