JSA entitlement

Allan87

My mother has recently joined the unemployment list after her part-time job was closed. As I understand it she's not entitled to JSA because my father is meant to support her and/or she hasn't paid enough NI due to her hours being under the threshold? Despite this the Job Centre still expects her to attend sign-on appointments in the "possibility" of being eligible in a year from now, seems a bit pointless.

Caz3121

she can sign on to get NI credits towards her state pension, whether it is a waste of time or not will depend on how many years she has contributions for already

McKneff

It's worth checking with the dWP how many years NI she has paid already.

You need 30 years contributions for a full state pension.

epitome

As we just learned in another thread, she needs to have paid 25 weeks of NI conts as an employed person during the qualifying years and 50weeks of employed contributions OR NI credits.

This means if she has already paid 25 weeks of NI conts but does not yet have 50 weeks paid then by signing on for 6 months she may then have 50+

However depending on her work history she may have to sign on and wait until jan 2013 to get a paying claim.

So it would be nice to know more detailed information about her working history over the last 3 years

The jobcentre could be giving good advice that if she continues to sign on then at some point in the future she will be eligible to claim JSA Conts for up to 6 months (or if she became ill, ESA for up to 1 year)
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The NI conts and credits rules are very complicated and I do not profess to know them.

If I were her I would continue to sign on and I would ask the Benefit centre for a detailed breakdown of how many weeks NI conts she has made during the qualifying years and how many NI credits she will need to be able to claim in the future. And I would ask for a complete explanation of the rules applying to NI conts and credits as they apply to JSA

Does she still get Child benefit?

Torry_Quine

Allan87 wrote: »

My mother has recently joined the unemployment list after her part-time job was closed. As I understand it she's not entitled to JSA because my father is meant to support her and/or she hasn't paid enough NI due to her hours being under the threshold? Despite this the Job Centre still expects her to attend sign-on appointments in the "possibility" of being eligible in a year from now, seems a bit pointless.

The NI contributions she will get as unemployed will only go towards her state pension entitlement, therefore she will not become eligible for JSA through them.

She doesn't have to sign on if she doesn't want to be credited with them but doing so will give her access to the 'help' the Job centre gives.

epitome

Torry_Quine wrote: »

The NI contributions she will get as unemployed will only go towards her state pension entitlement, therefore she will not become eligible for JSA through them.

She doesn't have to sign on if she doesn't want to be credited with them but doing so will give her access to the 'help' the Job centre gives.

Apparently this is not correct, it is what we have all been led to believe but apparently not correct, as long as she has paid 25 weeks as employed, she can top up to 50 with credits and then be eligible to claim.

We need to see the DMG on qualifying NI conts/credits to make sure we know what we are talking about on this one. I don't know where to find it so hopefully someone else knows where to find it.

Torry_Quine

epitome wrote: »

Apparently this is not correct, it is what we have all been led to believe but apparently not correct, as long as she has paid 25 weeks as employed, she can top up to 50 with credits and then be eligible to claim.

We need to see the DMG on qualifying NI conts/credits to make sure we know what we are talking about on this one. I don't know where to find it so hopefully someone else knows where to find it.

Thanks for that as I've always thought that.