Not entitled to ANY benefit .... SKINT!

nailmania

After visiting the job centre with my son yesterday I am absolutely fuming.
I am currently on maternity pay @ £136.78 per week.
My elder son (aged 18) has come to live with me after finishing college. His college course finished early. His dad was claiming child benefit for him as he was in college. He has now cancelled this claim.

My 18 year old son is currently looking for employment and has been to 3 interviews in the last three weeks. He put a claim in for JSA whilst he is looking. He has had NO payments and yesterday we were told that he cannot claim until 3rd JUNE. This is because college should not end until May and child beenfit is payable.
I was advised to claim Child Benefit until the end of May (£7.50pw as he is my second child).
I rang tax credits to see if i could claim child tax for him as the answer was NO, as he is not in full time education.

I cant believe there is no help out there, other than £7.50 a week child benefit. It has cost me £12.00 on bus fares recently for him to get to interviews. How on earth am i supposed to feed/clothe him on my measly maternity pay.

I'm sure he'd have got help if he'd av just left school at 16 and gone straight onto job seekers!! It furiates me that he has had two years of college, no apprenticeship at the end and no help to get into work. :mad: :mad: :mad:

epitome

If he had left school at 16 and lived at home there would have been no help at all no job seekers and no child benefit.... possibly no child tax either.

Regarding this situation though, I think there is a 4 week run on of child benefit, so if that is still being paid (to the father) then there can be no JSA.

I would be surprised, if, the child benefit has really stopped and the course has finshed - and he has a letter from the college that the course has finshed or that he has left the course.... that JSA was not payable....

If this is the case, I would go back to the Jobcentre and say you want their decesion to refuse benefit in writing with the stated reasons so that he can appeal the decision. Otherwise you want the claim to be sent to the BDC processing and you will provide a letter from the college (as above) to support the JSA claim.

Jobseeeker

why has his college course finished early? has he got the dates in black and white? take that along

as other poster has said check with dad that child benefit is not still running even though claim has been cancelled

hope he gets one of the three jobs

pmlindyloo

The actual amount for Child Benefit for second child is £13.40 per week.

Can his dad not help out until he gets his JSA?

skibadee

Not quiet skint http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=60583937&postcount=1


Check CB isn't still being paid to Dad, I know there is a cut off point in February and May for students who leave FE early.....you can get a 20wk run on I believe if your child registers with Connexions.

themull1

If the dad was claiming the child benefit,why didnt your son go back and live with him?

Peter999_2

You have £50,000 and yet you say you are skint?

BillyB

This is what happened when I left college, couldn't claim JSA and they stopped paying CB, in the end 1 call from citizens advice sorted it out and they carried on paying CB til the end of august (or around about that time!)

SnooksNJ

nailmania wrote: »

After visiting the job centre with my son yesterday I am absolutely fuming.
I am currently on maternity pay @ £136.78 per week.
My elder son (aged 18) has come to live with me after finishing college. His college course finished early. His dad was claiming child benefit for him as he was in college. He has now cancelled this claim.

My 18 year old son is currently looking for employment and has been to 3 interviews in the last three weeks. He put a claim in for JSA whilst he is looking. He has had NO payments and yesterday we were told that he cannot claim until 3rd JUNE. This is because college should not end until May and child beenfit is payable.
I was advised to claim Child Benefit until the end of May (£7.50pw as he is my second child).
I rang tax credits to see if i could claim child tax for him as the answer was NO, as he is not in full time education.

I cant believe there is no help out there, other than £7.50 a week child benefit. It has cost me £12.00 on bus fares recently for him to get to interviews. How on earth am i supposed to feed/clothe him on my measly maternity pay.

I'm sure he'd have got help if he'd av just left school at 16 and gone straight onto job seekers!! It furiates me that he has had two years of college, no apprenticeship at the end and no help to get into work. :mad: :mad: :mad:

McDonalds is always hiring and you won't have to worry about clothes and food because the employees wear uniforms and get free meals.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

firstly, OP's son is an adult, and as such OP's deposit for a house is not a cash pot for him.

he isnt entitled to JSA as FE has ended early, OPS bio dad would have had a some CB run on, so ask him to put that into sons account.

it would be upto the OP and her partner to bursery her son with a weekly budget from her savings.

Dunroamin

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

firstly, OP's son is an adult, and as such OP's deposit for a house is not a cash pot for him.

he isnt entitled to JSA as FE has ended early, OPS bio dad would have had a some CB run on, so ask him to put that into sons account.

it would be upto the OP and her partner to bursery her son with a weekly budget from her savings.

So the OP has a working partner and isn't just living on her maternity pay then?