Help Moving From JSA To Employment

AP007

loony2012 wrote: »

No it's not on a text i think you miss understood. I signed contract. work is intermittent but lasts all year round minus the xmas office month they close. Your not a full time worker as it works like this.

They phone you and tell you what job is on "Next" you say yes or no if you want to go. Your intermittent so can say no and keep job

Say yes then they text details of whose on job/where you stay and drop off time for car been delivered to you.

Also thanks for all ideas but turn around from getting budgeting loan/decision/payout is over a month :O i have 6 days to sort it.

JSA helped me out last time i first started in this situation. From signing off they sent money to my bank with in 2 hours and also put £250 back to work grant in bank also so it gave me the chance of doing the job. This time JSA i will be owed is pennies and no back to work grant as it's abolished.

So basically Government wants us to work yet it's hard to live and do work on no money. Suppose i could fish in Edinburgh somewhere at work to find food :O


Also Crisis loans is only gone from the JCP Office. You get the help via council now but it's not cash it's food and such. Not sure how i would get from Scotland back to home in Hartlepool to tell them i have no money for lunch and them give me some lol. This situation is really only for people not working away.

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

this is what I posted above

loony2012

AP007 wrote: »

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

this is what I posted above

Yes and like i said Budgeting loan is not ideal for anyone apart for people wanting an actual loan.
It takes about 2 weeks to check form and make a decision before. Then they mail you derision for you to sign and send back. Then wait for them to get it and process money takes well over 3 weeks on a good day...

AP007

loony2012 wrote: »

Yes and like i said Budgeting loan is not ideal for anyone apart for people wanting an actual loan.
It takes about 2 weeks to check form and make a decision before. Then they mail you derision for you to sign and send back. Then wait for them to get it and process money takes well over 3 weeks on a good day...

oh well why do they offer it and make people available for work the very next day if offered a job when they cant not get there

Makes no sense at all

sniggings

loony2012 wrote: »

Yes and like i said Budgeting loan is not ideal for anyone apart for people wanting an actual loan.
It takes about 2 weeks to check form and make a decision before. Then they mail you derision for you to sign and send back. Then wait for them to get it and process money takes well over 3 weeks on a good day...

no idea why they got rid of the crisis loans, (well I do cos the tories are nasty) as they were a loan which had to be paid back anyway, same as a budgeting loan, apart from as you say it takes a month for a budgeting loan to go through.

john539

loony2012 wrote: »

Ok so thought id post here rather than benefits since they no longer have benefits for going back into work ( Back to work grant )

Is there any help you get from the switch over?
Got a job and it's working away. I need petrol costs to drive 150 miles to hotel + 8 days fuel from hotel to work then also the return journey. Along with supplies/food for 8 days.

Any ideas on what to do?

Haven't you got any ideas ?

Didn't you think of this before taking job ?

How much do you need, have you calculated, £300 ?

sniggings

john539 wrote: »

Haven't you got any ideas ?

Didn't you think of this before taking job ?

How much do you need, have you calculated, £300 ?

I think when you get offered a job you take it, then worry later, apart from that he would have to take an offer anyway or his benefits would stop, so either way he ends up at the same place.

AP007

sniggings wrote: »

I think when you get offered a job you take it, then worry later, apart from that he would have to take an offer anyway or his benefits would stop, so either way he ends up at the same place.

and you lose the job as you can get there.

someone should ask the JSA how they are meant to take the job

sniggings

AP007 wrote: »

and you lose the job as you can get there.

someone should ask the JSA how they are meant to take the job

I agree but the rules say he has to take an offer, so you can't really argue he shouldn't have taken it.

I agree, he needs to ask but he best not expect a decent answer, they are likely to just wait till he can't get there then sanction him :mad:

He needs to email his MP too, so they know what they are doing to people, all they are doing is making people not want to come off benefits as they can't live on fresh air for up to a month until they get paid.

AP007

sniggings wrote: »

I agree but the rules say he has to take an offer, so you can't really argue he shouldn't have taken it.

I agree, he needs to ask but he best not expect a decent answer, they are likely to just wait till he can't get there then sanction him :mad:

He needs to email his MP too, so they know what they are doing to people, all they are doing is making people not want to come off benefits as they can't live on fresh air for up to a month until they get paid.

If you appealed I am sure no one would say you could get to a job with no money.

sniggings

AP007 wrote: »

If you appealed I am sure no one would say you could get to a job with no money.

yeah right, so the same people that have taken away the crisis loans and the back to work money!

He may well win an appeal, I doubt it but even if he does, he still then has his money stopped until he wins the appeal, so either way he is living on fresh air, at least this way he has a chance of a job.