JSA: justifiable reasons to limit hours/days of work sought?

FBaby

It is so much easier to blame everyone else. Where you currently are is the direct consequence of ALL the choices you and you wife have and continue to make. The difference is that now, you are facing the fact that once you depend on benefits, you are no longer in control of your choices. The job centre is telling you that if you want the gov to support you, you have to abide to some rules. The fact that you don't like them or that they don't fit with the choices you have made is now irrelevant.

Your wife CAN work full-time, you would just prefer she did when it suits your family rather than when she can. Unfortunately, your choices don't take priorities any longer.

Naf

FBaby wrote: »

It is so much easier to blame everyone else.

Blame? Other than the crappy info I was given to base my budget on, and my council tax going up 600% without any notice, who am I blaming?
Yes, I could have budgeted my money better - but because I didn't have the correct information, I thought I had done it right already. If the government could get their facts straight & give out the right info when people ask for it, then I wouldn't need to go claiming JSA right now. But the fact is that I'm here and I simply asked for some simple information.

FBaby wrote: »

Your wife CAN work full-time, you would just prefer she did when it suits your family rather than when she can. Unfortunately, your choices don't take priorities any longer.

You might be interested to hear the advice the JC gave me when I phoned; the adviser suggested we should get my wife a sick note from the doctor to cover the next 3 months. I'm pretty confident that wouldn't be too difficult to do; my experience is that notes for stress/exhaustion are handed out like rice at a wedding. But I'm not inclined to cheat the system like that: I just wanted to find a way to marry up what's best for my family's needs with the way the system operates.
Its so much easier to cheat the system than work within it; its no wonder so many people do it.

StormyWeather_2

Naf, You have more recent work experience than she does, so the chances are you'll be the first to find a job anyway.

If a situation arises, that is incompatible with the breast feeding and weaning, you'll just have to make a decision at the time. It's unlikely though. I can't see her being expected to apply for jobs outside of regular hours for the first few months.

They can insist that she applies for full time work, and she'll have to do that to keep to the agreement and not be sanctioned. When you have 24 hours of work between you, she'll have to sign off anyway so won't have to keep to the JSA agreement.