Jobcentre making me go on Daily Signing. Can I do anything to prevent it?

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Lioness_Twinkletoes wrote: »

Oh, please! They'll take anyone with a pulse these days!

someones jealous

dandelionclock30

Tax payers are screwed over 1000x more by people like Gary Barlow and companies like Amazon and Starbucks.
This person wont get a job for 5 weeks or whatever it is. Most employers even seasonal ones want people for longer than that.

iclayt

Bakers_Dozen wrote: »

You are still getting £30 a week for going to the jobcentre 5 days a week. Your attitude is disgraceful. You dont have a job and you're complaining about get free money for a 5 minute daily visit to your jobcentre. If your travel is costing to much, then walk or ride a bike and stop playing a victim when the only victims are the tax payer.

That isn't the point. The question is should the OP have been put on daily signing just because he is going to university in September. On paper, he can still look for temporary work, even if he is going to university. He could live a two minute walk away from the JC and not spend a penny on travel, it doesn't matter, but he's been told to go there every day and the question is why.

OP, just ask the reasoning behind it, because if it's just a case of your adviser having the hump with you that's not reasonable. And for gods sake don't say anything about not wanting to get a job, either on here or at the JC, because you'll just get grief.

But you might manage a few hours somewhere, yes? My student cousin is working Sundays on an ice cream cart and trying to get a bar job for a few weeks before she packs up and goes back to uni - don't spend your summer cooped up reading!

tomterm8

SeduLOUs wrote: »

So by that logic all full time University students should be claiming JSA for the duration of their studies?!

A full time student isn't entitled to claim JSA except under a few very specific circumstances.

Someone who is waiting for a job or to go to university is entitled to JSA as long as they meet the other criteria. It's just not an unusual thing to do; you just keep on looking for work until you sign off.

The OP is lucky, though, that the advisor didn't find a couple of two week full time courses for him to do... Some of them would have.:D

Daily signing isn't just reserved for long term unemployed people. It's generally used where someone is suspected of not looking for work, or of working on the side.

Voyager2002

tomterm8 wrote: »

Daily signing isn't just reserved for long term unemployed people. It's generally used where someone is suspected of not looking for work, or of working on the side.

I think that this is the heart of the problem.

trollopscarletwoman

Voyager2002 wrote: »

I think that this is the heart of the problem.

Unless the jc drag out the signing process then daily signing for someone working cash in hand won't affect it.

The 'employer' is likely in on it and will make all necessary arrangements. Probably give you a lift and wait around the corner.

mattcanary

FBaby wrote: »

I believe the rules don't allow to claim JSA whilst having stated a full time degree. It's all about the rules!

He hasn't started a degree yet though

mattcanary

Euphoria1z wrote: »

can you still get jsa if you found a job but it doesn't start for a few weeks, therefore your no longer looking for work, but there is a few weeks before you start, do you still get to sign on till the day before you start work? or does it stop the day you found the job?

You can still claim JSA until the day you start your new job, although you have to be looking for other work for the period in between (even if that is only a day).


Which of course is a stupid, bureaucratic charade

mattcanary

duchy wrote: »

It sounds like you gave them the impression that you wouldn't be looking so hard for work (if at all) because of the uni place. It may also be that you weren't meeting your however many tasks a week they've set for you.

Signing over and above the once a fortnight they do have to pay your fares however.

Or his adviser was jealous that OP was starting university, whilst he is stuck in a job he hates.

help4help2013

mattcanary wrote: »

Why would you think OP's parents are claiming Child Benefit on his/her behalf?


Where has that been mentioned?


Just because your daughter got a job within a day, doesn't mean everyone can!

i was a bit puzzled when i also read that bit lol