Fear of JSA being stopped.

thegirlintheattic

The OP seems to be fishing for people to tell them it's ok not to go to the interview.

Bogof_Babe

If you took your iPod, phone or something else to somewhere like Cash Converters they don't sell them immediately so you could buy it back when you get your JSA.

Just out of curiosity, why is your family responsible for your late grandmother's debts? I'd have thought debts die with the debtor.

sniggings

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

The OP seems to be fishing for people to tell them it's ok not to go to the interview.

well as it's 2 hours away, and he doesn't have the money! and as he haven't even been paid yet! he doesn't need to fish around, he doesn't have to go.

mamboboy

They need a bus ticket to reimburse travel expenses. But couldn't you have asked for a crisis loan? The £5 would then just come out of your benefits instead. Plus you could have given them the bus ticket post-interview for it to be refunded.

moggies

BigAunty wrote: »

If you are struggling to put food on the table, look into a food bank. They are used to seeing people on benefits who aren't on top of their basic bills, like groceries, or who have experienced a sudden drop in income. You may need to be referred to them by a third party, such as Citizens Advice or similar. Google to see if there are any food banks in your area and what their criteria is to be able to collect a bag of groceries from them. The main one is Trussel trust but there are usually lots of other independent ones often run by charities or churches.

The job centre,doctors surgery,probation,school, issues food bank vouchers,sorry off the top of my head cant remember if citizens advice(I would think they do) are one of the agencies who refer people ,I should know as we are in the process of setting up a food bank advice in my parish,after I had to apply for a parishoner a food parcel,it opened my eyes for the need of food banks,and the wonderful work they do,but what are we coming to in this country when the need for food banks is on the rise daily,it breaks my heart and takes me back to the years following WW2 when we had very little food on the table due to rationing:mad:yes you are correct all the food banks in my area are run by the churches:oshould be the fat cats in government providing food banks:mad::mad:

Also stick by your guns and hold out for travel allowance from the JC,I know for fact they pay out ,but I feel you pay for the ticket and they refund the money on proof of the ticket,sorry cant help with more advice but I am in the very early stages of trying to help out people in need,I am just so fed up with people not being advised of what help can be given to unemployed/benefits:(

FBaby

So no one in the family is going to get anyone one christmas present, buy one christmas pudding, not one pack of cigarette nothing at all?

OP, if that is indeed the case, then surely you must see that if not you, but your family as a whole are not budgeting as they should. Anyone, even on the most basic benefits should be able to have £5 available, if not cash, at least in capital that can be sold. I understand that you are still waiting for your benefits, so am not talking about you as an individual but as a family.

Don't you think how ridiculous it is that you are risking losing the amount of your JSA for who knows how long just because no one around you could even let you borrow £5 and there was nothing you could sell?

If you are genuine, I really hope the JSA will show sympathy, but do see this as a wake up call that you do need to have at least something put aside but emergencies, however little it can be.

Rainlight

People shouldn't just assume I'm "fishing" I'm on JSA and I'm doing more than what my minimum requirements are on my agreement and I have no interest in becoming a fisherman either so "fishing" isn't on my to-do list.

I've received my first payment today I been this morning to check, and congratulations the number idiot award goes to the JCP again.

They've paid me the wrong amount, I've only received £60 meaning none of my money has even been back dated from when I started making the claim on the 19th, and they still think I'm doing Carers allowance even though I already told them AND the Carers people at DWP directly by phone, I got a letter about my JSA one day saying eventually the amount I get is £30.40 which makes no sense at all so I went straight to CAB as I got that letter (and may I point out CAB are actually some of the most helpful people you can go to ever).

When I was at CAB they phoned the JC to ask why I'm not getting the correct £50 payments I'm supposed to they said they still had me down as being on Carers allowance, now thing is I sent a letter exactly 6 days in advance before I made my claim for JSA that I'm no longer caring for the person, so while at CAB the lady that phoned the Carers people up and we asked them why they still thought I was on Carers and claimed that they hadn't received my letter (sure I didn't exactly believe that anyway), they then said they'd send a letter out saying I'm no longer on Carers (waste of paper I already knew I wasn't on it duh) and they'd inform the JCP that I wasn't so I could get the right amount when I received it.

Clearly they have not informed JCP about it AGAIN and I still haven't received a letter, and the irony of it is the Carers Allowance people MUST have known about me no longer caring for the person and received my previous letter because I wasn't getting anymore payments of Carers since I signed onto JSA, is it just me or do they enjoy messing people around near Christmas time.

And I'll repeat for the last time I am not selling any of my things that I have left because they are gifts from family members mist of them including my grandmother, if you seriously expect me to sell my iPod, an 18th birthday gift i was given by my grandmother and always treasured then you have a sick mind, how anyone can suggest that is beyond me that's just plain horrible, I've earnt my gifts and things by helping out an doing things for my family or received them on special occasions, if they were things I'd bought myself I'd sell them for cash instantly in a heartbeat to make ends meet, but seriously you just don't say to people to practically sell memories of their family that is beyond horrifying in a way I can't begin to describe.

And I agree we don't just need food banks we need it to be made public knowledge they exist, I had mo idea they existed till a previous poster mentioned them and luckily I have one within walking distance for me, it really needs to become widespread if the government spent less money on the war effort in the middle east (I previously considered joining the military but found out that your e automatically shipped off to places like Iraq after you finish training and I refuse to fight a war that isn't even ours and I've lost enough friends from that war already so I changed my mind), maybe then they could use it on more important things for people like food banks and such and more homeless shelters and offer better education (I find the education system poor from my experience which is why I'll be going abroad eventually to finish my studies).

I'd get a crisis loan but 1.The JCP have never informed they do these things ever they must think I'm psychic and already knew and 2.they have no information around stating that they do.

My adviser knows I didn't have any JSA payment so if they do Crisis Loans and such they should have actually offered them to me and in failure to do so if I get sanctioned then it's him going to get in trouble not me when it was way out of my control.

BigAunty

Rainlight wrote: »

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I'd get a crisis loan but 1.The JCP have never informed they do these things ever they must think I'm psychic and already knew and 2.they have no information around stating that they do.

My adviser knows I didn't have any JSA payment so if they do Crisis Loans and such they should have actually offered them to me and in failure to do so if I get sanctioned then it's him going to get in trouble not me when it was way out of my control.

A Crisis Loan is not suitable for someone struggling to pay for transport and other basic needs - it's for households that have experienced a disaster or emergency like a flood or fire.

https://www.gov.uk/crisis-loans/overview

The more usual type of loan with the DWP is a budgeting loan. Here's info on how you can apply for it.

https://www.gov.uk/budgeting-loans

I can totally see why you are frustrated that you have not been proactively informed of your other options but it is counter productive to think 'because they never offered it, because there are no posters up at the JC about them, I am not now going to apply'.

For the debts that your family have, (which I assume are funeral expense related?), please encourage whoever has the debts in their name to post on the debt free wanabee board or look up the info for debt management on the Direct Gov website or visit the Citizens Advice. Christians Against Poverty also offer debt counselling.

They will be able to come up with a strategy to either write them off or pay a token sum. It will bring an end to having all your disposable income taken to service them, leaving you without enough money for basic needs like transport and food.

The DWP do have funeral grants, etc, and while I don't know how that works and I suspect they never cover the full cost, do look up the info on the Direct Gov website.

There is also a search facility on the Turn2us website for grants that charities offer so you could also look if you family could qualify for any hardship grants.

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Just thinking about people in Africa who have to walk every day just to get water to live and then you've got the OP who wont make an effort to sell things to fund a job interview.....

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FBaby wrote: »

So no one in the family is going to get anyone one christmas present, buy one christmas pudding, not one pack of cigarette nothing at all?

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Fags and booze obviously more important than getting a job probably.