JSA - under 25 - having to sign on every week and far away from home?

kelpie35

Well if you or your DD do not like the setup of signing on tell her to sign off and live off what you earn.

She wants JSA so has to abide by the rules I'm afraid.

gettingready

There is a lot of rules we all need to abide by one way or another.

But I really wonder about purpose of those particular ones as I can not see them achieving the desired effect at all.

BTW - my daughter's JSA is contribution, not income based so she is not entailed to free dentist or prescriptions. But the bums who never worked are.

Perhaps I raised her wrong. Perhaps by now, at the grand age of 23 she should have at least 3 kids (each one with a different father), have zero work history.. she would be so much better off then.

Thanks again for all the replies/thoughts. Even the nasty ones.

jacques_chirac

gettingready wrote: »

From my point of view - it is unreasonable to get people to sign on in a different borough when there is a massive JC few minutes walk away.

Your point of view is biased. I would question anyone that thought it too much hassle to sign on anywhere within their job search area.

StormyWeather_2

gettingready wrote: »

From my point of view - I have no idea why she needs to sign on every week when people I know who sign on do it once every fortnight.

In theory, it's to give her more help and keep track of her job search.

Is she not getting any help at all?

Cate1976

Not having a go here but is your Daughter happy travelling to the JCP in a different borough?

I can understand your annoyance at your Daughter going to sign in a different borough but have to ask are you aware that your daughter has to be looking for jobs that she can get to within 90 minutes travelling time? I would guess that within London, to allow for how busy it is, the actual distance could be 10 miles from home? The only 'leeway' the JCP might allow is for availability times to be such that she's not expected to be travelling home late at night or very early morning for safety reasons, I would say leaving home 7am and being back home 8/9pm would be reasonable possibly 10pm if living in one of the better areas and bus stop is close to home.

StormyWeather_2

gettingready wrote: »

But I really wonder about purpose of those particular ones as I can not see them achieving the desired effect at all.

Maybe the majority of the under 25s that the job centres are having to deal with haven't worked much or at all.

Whoever makes the decisions for certain sectors of the unemployed will come up with processes that deal the majority. Some won't fit the pattern.

cutestkids

It really does not matter if you understand it or like it or whether it makes any sense that is the way the system works so that is what your daughter will have to do.
If she has been told to sign on every week then she will have no choice but to do it and if that means she has to go a few miles to another Job centre because that is where the under 25's advisors are based then that is just the way things are.
3 and a bit miles is really nothing you are talking under 7 miles return journey, easily doable for most people I walk this distance several times a week with a 12 year old and an almost 8 year old and have been doing so since the oldest was a baby in the pram.

You should actually think yourselves lucky that the centre is as close as it is, where I live the one Job centre covers a huge area with people having to travel over 40 miles to access it in some cases.

gettingready

It is one thing to travel to work 90 min each way/every day (actually this is what I do) but quite another to travel to an out of Borough "advice place" who has no advice to give and treats you like scum AND spend the very little money one gets (on contribution based JSA ie having worked before) on travel there and back. She was in tears when she came back.

Additional issue - the CT going up but her not getting CT benefit and me not getting second adult rebate so having to pay extra while she is on JSA - which again will have to come from the little money she gets. Leaving her with almost nothing and me with more things to think of/pay for.

gettingready

And still nobody told me if this is normal for the under 25's to have to sign on every week?

Is this a rule for all 25's?

Thanks

SHIRAZ

OP your attitude stinks...