Claiming JSA and attending college

bazza5070

Correct to an earlier answer by tactful.............

you can only claim IS if your youngest child is under 5

Magnolia

I am not sure if the rules have changed or not as most information about benefits is not quite as good as it could be.

I know if you are doing a HE course you cannot claim jobseekers but I have known some doing a FE course be successful *shrugs*

The benefits page on education on the direct gov website only talks about HE - I could find no mention of FE so what I would advise is to go back to the Job Centre and double check that they understand it is a FE course and only 14 hours.

My understanding is that for an adult the 16 hour rule kicks in where a 16-18 is classed as full time with 12 hours and for council tax purposes a full time course is 22 hours (adults only) *shrugs again*

The ones I know that got Jobseekers were all doing Access.

I could be totally wrong and the goalposts have been moved again while I wasn't looking;)

Good luck.

cheriewalpole

So what was the outcome in end...i asking this as daughters boyfriend doing 11 hours a week access course, course is listed as part time...but has 450 hours which is a full time course as done over more weeks than normal courses .