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

gettingready

MY attitude stinks?

Ok, will stop giving away 40 % of my pay in taxes to support strangers and give it directly to my daughter when she needs it - will my attitude stop stinking then?

jacques_chirac

gettingready wrote: »

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) She was in tears when she came back.

Then she needs to toughen up - signing on should not cause someone to be in tears. Perhaps her state is exacerbated by her mother continually making mountains out of molehills?

Regular appts at the JCP are a way of getting claimants work ready. Hence, it is reasonable for them to have to travel to the appt, just as they would to work.

gettingready wrote: »

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

As you have been told several times, this is standard practice in many areas. I am not aware that it is a 'rule', but it is good practice and a reasonable Jobseekers Direction.

StormyWeather_2

gettingready wrote: »

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.

The advice and help you get can vary from one staff member to another.

She isn't going to get brilliant career advice at the job centre. They just don't have the resources.

SHIRAZ

gettingready wrote: »

MY attitude stinks?

Ok, will stop giving away 40 % of my pay in taxes to support strangers and give it directly to my daughter when she needs it - will my attitude stop stinking then?

lol, *shakes head* some people really do make huge mountains out of tiny mole hills. Having to sign on once a week 3.3 miles away, a very short journey which could be walked for free quite easily and get help finding work, yeah she's really hard done by...

jacques_chirac

SHIRAZ wrote: »

lol, *shakes head* some people really do make huge mountains out of tiny mole hills. Having to sign on once a week 3.3 miles away, a very short journey which could be walked for free quite easily and get help finding work, yeah she's really hard done by...

I missed the distance - the way she's been going on I thought it was miles away!

kelpie35

OP it is people like you, with your attitude, that cause people to become angry.

What have or are you doing to assist your DD in finding work?

xylophone

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14423.aspx
"You can apply for a Jobcentre Plus Travel Discount Card if you are claiming one of the following:

Jobseekers Allowance: if you're aged 18-24 and have been unemployed for three to nine months"

But with a bit of luck she might not be unemployed for this long.

I am sure that you wish to support your daughter through this time - if she gave you fifteen pounds a week it still leaves her with £30 a week of pocket money which in her current circumstances (in a sense a child/student again) she just has to accept?

Signing on weekly is no doubt an irritant but from previous posts I have seen, this can be a requirement for anybody, not just those under 25.

The tears may well be evidence of her frustration and feeling of being a supplicant, rather than of any "attitude" of the staff.

Advise her to accept the situation, get all the help she can out of the system and look really hard for work - a minimum wage job pays more than JSA and once she is in work, it becomes easier to find other work?

joolsybools

Oh do stop feeding the troll people.

busy_mom_2

gettingready wrote: »

Oh dear - let me try to explain again what I have an issue with.

There is a JC within a 15 min walk (free) from where we live.
Everyone I know goes to sign on there and only once every 2 weeks.

My daughter has been told to sign on in a JC 3 buses away AND every week at a cost of £4.40 per week.

On the under 25's allowance that £4.40 per week IS a lot of money.

There will be no refunds as those are signing on days, every week.

I was hoping some under 25's would post here (or people with "kids" in this situation) and let me know if they too are asked to sign on so far away from their local JC? And if they are being asked to sign on every week too?

Thanks

As I have said, if you read the letters she is attening weekly but she is still signing and will be paid every two weeks, hence she pays fares one week and she is refunded the next week! so inactual fact, if I explain it in simple enough terms, she will still only pay the journey fee every two weeks.
Your daughter should be grateful she is getting extra help and the sooner she is back in work then she will not have to attend at all. This process is not new it happended a few years ago where lots of different offices did this for flexible jobs fund. Some offices still run similar models others just run over different floors. Some districts have JCP offices purely for new claims. It is a process and one that she must accept if she chooses to claim JSA.
Yes it is also normal for people to sign weekly, regrdless of whether they are under 25 or not, some people who have just returned form the work programme are attending twice a week.

dodger1

Yes it's a pain when one centre is closer than the other on that I agree, but come on it's only a one hour walk each way once a week for a young fit (not told otherwise) person. You making a mountain out of a molehill is not doing your daughter any good whatsoever.