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  • dookar
    dookar Posts: 1,654 Forumite
    The requirement is that you are available for work, not that work is available for you. Providing you take sufficient steps to find work, you can't help there being non suitable
  • Anubis_2
    Anubis_2 Posts: 4,077 Forumite
    I'm under 25 so I don't understand it? Would I be getting £36 a week? I don't have any income or anything so I don't understand it. Or is that £72 a week inc. housing benefit? I didn't directly apply for HB, just filled in a JSA application online and then went to the place to sign

    As you are under 25 your weekly allowance of just JSA is £56.25

    Your HB and CT are separate - have you claimed for these? Judging from your response of "didn't directly apply" I am presuming maybe not?

    You need to apply - is your house social or private rented? http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/diol1/doitonline/dg_4017614
    How people treat you becomes their karma; how you react becomes yours.
  • I haven't claimed for those, no. I'll go do so tomorrow. I'll be going back to uni in sept though so it's only for a few months. Will I have to pay council tax? Will it only be for the 3 months then?
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