Benefits, ill mum and girlfriend.

red_me

Yep you will not be signing on if your claim CA and IS. But you need to spend at least 35 hours a week caring for your mother.

And i almost forgot your mother needs to be getting middle or highest rate Disability Living Allowance for your to claim CA.

mustaf

no its not a wind up, i am asking for help and advice.

thanks red.me

Barneysmom

princessdon wrote: »

Is this a wind up?

I'm thinking that too - 3 years on jsa!
Op why don't you get a job and stop looking for ways to be carried through life by everybody else who works and pays for your mobile, electric and gas?
You're a coaster.....

mustaf

its really hard to find jobs where i live, i dont want to be on jsa and would rather work

mustaf

and i have not done anything wrong all claimed what allowed

princessdon

so you are on benefits - you moved out because you couldn't get HB on your own. All your family is disabled and not working - claiming CA for each other. Your GF is in a big new buiild wilth loads of room and again on benefits.

either a wind up or a prime example of why benefits should be cut by a large amount to prevent this situation (which even though I think is a toll/wind up) is also likely to be very true of some famililes so happy to humour it.

mustaf

it is a genuine question. my mum has worked all her life and retired 2 years ago and then gets cancer (now in remission)

I claim jsa yes, i have tried to get jobs its so hard. i worked for 6 years in a factory until they closed it.my brother can only get jsa for 6 months as he was made redundant after 20 years.

princessdon

So how did your GF (not working) end up in a new build with plenty of rooms? Who pays her rent and extra bedrooms?

You lived at home whilst working -- then the second you could get HB moved out, despite your mum being ill and needing help and you making her worse off financially due to moving out.

sorry to hear about your mother.

mustaf

its a newly built 3 bed council property, she claims hb

Barneysmom

Hmm, maybe you could try looking at it all in a different perspective?
3 years, you could be well on your way to a degree by now but that's by-the-by, you can't change the past.
But you can think of the future differently.
Unless you're somewhere like an island in the north sea, there will be a job for you so keep looking even if you have to move somewhere else.
Don't give up looking, and in the meantime, look into going to college in September, choose something that you'll enjoy doing, you need some way of building up your cv.
Do some volunteer work to add to your cv too, employers don't really like big gaps where it looks like time has been wasted being idle.

I don't think you can claim JSA and CA.