Jsa

akhan39

Hi there,

Can someone give me a definitive answer as to the under 16 hours working scheme.I keep getting different opinions as to how it actually works.One opinion says that I can work under 16 hours and still claim JSA the other say that I have to disclose the amount of hours worked and the job centre will deduct pound for pound.
So the advice is I would say 50\50 just now can someone please help,

Thanks:(

nannytone_2

if it is a single claim, you will be allowed to keep the first £5 of any earnings. after that they deduct the rest £ for £.
you would still receive your NI credit and still be expected to search for work.
you must be working LESS than 16 hours

konark

So if you worked 10 hours a week at £6.70 per hour and got £73.10 JSA you would be better off by a whole crisp fiver, that's before travel costs. And they wonder why the unemployed don't want to work.

TELLIT01

Many people either aren't told the full story, or only hear part of the story, when it comes to claiming benefit and part time working. For JSA, IS etc if you work 16 hours or over you can't claim apart from exceptional circumstances. If you work under 16 hours you can claim, but earnings are taken into account. The amount of income which is disregarded varies between benefits and on reason for claiming the benefit.

neilvw

konark wrote: »

So if you worked 10 hours a week at £6.70 per hour and got £73.10 JSA you would be better off by a whole crisp fiver, that's before travel costs. And they wonder why the unemployed don't want to work.

This is one of the oddities that Universal Credit gets rid of.

HappyMJ

konark wrote: »

So if you worked 10 hours a week at £6.70 per hour and got £73.10 JSA you would be better off by a whole crisp fiver, that's before travel costs. And they wonder why the unemployed don't want to work.

With travel costs you wouldn't be better off at all so can quite easily turn down a job that does not offer a guaranteed 30 hours per week if single and aged over 25 otherwise 16 hours per week and you will not be sanctioned.

You can turn down any zero hour contracts as well that although they may promise 30 hours it's not guaranteed.

The unemployed generally do want to work they just want to earn more in work than out of work.