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JSA- sanctioned before I've even started?!
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I am not a Decision Maker but if you qualified for IS during the period you gave up the work (and not qualified for JSA) I doubt you will have problems.
I presume you had to fill out a form giving your full explanation. Don't get too worried - at the worst case you have the right to go for a redicision then it can be escalted and, as a (I presume) single parent you would probably qualify for hardship payments if the worst did happen.0 -
MissMoneypenny wrote: »Do I really need to remind you that as an EU citizen, you were happy enough to use the EU free movement laws to live in the UK and claim benefits from the UK, as a single mother?
What a pathetic comment, especially as you are wrong all around. I might have been born abroad, but my mother has British nationality. I did come in using the EU free movement, but could have applied for a British passport too. I have more British blood in me than my husband who was born in this country as a British citizen!
Also, I have more than paid back the benefits I received to pay for childcare and will continue to do so for quite some time. Even when I was a single parent and claimed tax credits, I paid more in taxes than I received back. Of course I could have gone on IS until I couldn't any more and then provide language lessons for 5 hours a week whilst pretending it took me 11 hours to prepare for these, and claim tax credits indefinitely, but thankfully, I was brought up not to look at the easiest ways to make money but to work as hard as I could to earn my due and so continued to work full-time ever since I came into this country beside the time I went back to study...and paid it 100% with my savings.
You've always had it for me, not sure why, unless you have an issue with all foreigners who come to England to contribute to its economy. At least your post made me laugh!0 -
Finally been told I will not be sanctioned. Common sense was used.0
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What a pathetic comment, especially as you are wrong all around. I might have been born abroad, but my mother has British nationality. I did come in using the EU free movement, but could have applied for a British passport too. I have more British blood in me than my husband who was born in this country as a British citizen!
Nationality cannot always be passed on. i.e if your mother was born abroad, then you wouldn't have British citizenship. It's quite a simple process to get a UK passport if you qualify as a UK citizen. Much easier that going through all the EEA hoops to be able to work and claim in the UK, apply for PR 5 years later (to stay in the UK) and then to apply for citizenship after 6 years.
I assume you are saying that your husband's parents' came to UK, naturlaised and then he was born in the UK, which made him British by birth. He can pass his citizenship on if his child is born outside the UK. Citizenship isn't based on the blood in your body, but by retention under the rules. You may not like those rules, but that's how it is for most countries. Unless of course, your OH he was born before 1983, when everyone born in the UK was born a UK citizen.Also, I have more than paid back the benefits I received to pay for childcare and will continue to do so for quite some time. Even when I was a single parent and claimed tax credits, I paid more in taxes than I received back. Of course I could have gone on IS until I couldn't any more and then provide language lessons for 5 hours a week whilst pretending it took me 11 hours to prepare for these, and claim tax credits indefinitely, but thankfully, I was brought up not to look at the easiest ways to make money but to work as hard as I could to earn my due and so continued to work full-time ever since I came into this country beside the time I went back to study...and paid it 100% with my savings.
Taxes are also used for things like education, healthcare, roads, etc.You've always had it for me, not sure why, unless you have an issue with all foreigners who come to England to contribute to its economy. At least your post made me laugh!
I don't have an issue with you at all, I have a good memory so it's easy to spot posts that don't conform with previous things a poster has said. But since you brought this up, from your posts on this benefits board, I thought at first that you were just against anyone claiming benefits; even though you claimed them yourself and then got annoyed when your marriage stopped your benefits as your new husband's income is used too in benefit calculations. Then when a French national was asking what she could clam in the UK as a single non-working mother as she had been refused benefits in the UK, you told her she was entitled to claim from the UK under EU rules. You are so anti benefits, that I thought at first, someone had hijacked your MSE account. After that, I noticed you took that stance quite often. Why are you so against Brits claiming benefits in the UK?RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.0 -
Finally been told I will not be sanctioned. Common sense was used.
I'm glad to see that. Thanks for coming back and letting us know.RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.0 -
I can't believe you have chosen to resurrect this post to make a point about me
All I will say is that you wasted your time going on about explaining how British nationality is gained in my situation as obviously my family didn't wait for you to find out. As a matter of fact you've forgotten about a particular element that applied to our situation but it doesn't matter as despite what your seem to think I really do not have an opinion one way or the other as to whether the rules are fair or not.
As for your opinion of my views on benefits claimants all I can say is that you seem very wrong. I think you are choosing to target specific posts maybe even specific words. Thankfully my ability to form views is a bit more developed than resulting to being 'for' or 'against'. Of course it is your right to choose to believe what you want but I would be grateful if you avoided challenging me in the future on other people's threads by bringing up my personal circumstances which most of the time have nothing to do with the OP. Just send me a private message I don't mind explaining my views that way if you care to know.
As for my comment about 'British blood' my point was exactly that, that from my perspective it doesn't matter where you were born or what your affiliation is. My views are based on individual circumstances regardless of the above.0 -
I can't believe you have chosen to resurrect this post to make a point about me
I didn't. Today is the first time I have seen your post. Obviously, if I had seen your post before, then I would have replied before. Why post if you don't want a relpy?
As I said, I remember what most people post, on many forums and when talking to people in real life and I can't understand why others can't do that. Which means that as time goes on, some things become glaringly obvious to me.
I don't spend more than a day revising for exams either, for the same reason. I just need to check that I haven't forgotten anything. The same when anything was repeated in any other course for my degree.
I have noted (mentally) that you didn't reply to my question.I would be grateful if you avoided challenging me in the future on other people's threads by bringing up my personal circumstances which most of the time have nothing to do with the OP.
This is an internet forum. If you don't want people to challenge what you say (and it is relevant to a poster) then you might need to remember what you have said previoulsy, before you hit Save.RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.0 -
I really do not have a clue what you are on about and I'm not going to waste any more time trying to decipher your cryptic posts. I think you want me to react to something but as I don't know what it is I don't know what else to say. To answer your specific question: I am not so against Brits claiming benefits but you seem to know better than I 0
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