Working on JSA

sammilo

Hi
I am on JSA and I started a job doing 8 hours a week. I found the DWP give me £10 and claw back the rest £ for £. What I was wondering is if I can donate my earnings to charity and the DWP would get nothing.

ohreally

You can donate if you wish, you would also have nothing.

What are you trying to achieve?

xapprenticex

What the hek are you trying to achieve or what point are you trying to prove?

If you owe DWP money for whatever reason then you pay it back.

sammilo

I was just curious, thought it would be nice to give some to a disability charity since the government is making life so hard for the disabled.

Sncjw

Do you mean they do £5 disregard and then just give you your jsa minus the earnings you get .

The jobcentre will still do this even if you donate. You won't get any extra money from them

sammilo

£10 disregard as I am married and the rest comes off JSA. I did some volentry work a while back and they were OK with that.I don't want extra money.

xapprenticex

sammilo wrote: »

£10 disregard as I am married and the rest comes off JSA. I did some volentry work a while back and they were OK with that.I don't want extra money.

Okay apologies for my earlier response, we get a lot of weird things popping up here.

okay so you are only getting your £10 disregard. So you are getting the £10 PLUS earnings from your p/t job and that works out to less than full JSA?

Either way, a person goes on JSA because they are in need of financial support, imagine that person saying they want to donate their money to a good cause even though they are on JSA as they have no money.

You can donate your time which is just as good.

sammilo

As I said it was just a fleeting thought and it would be similar to working voluntarily.

BorisThomson

The DWP top up your earned income to a certain level. If you give away your earned income the DWP will not replace that money for you.

The DWP do not get anything from you working, they simply give out less.

There's nothing to stop you doing voluntary work in your own time.

TELLIT01

sammilo wrote: »

As I said it was just a fleeting thought and it would be similar to working voluntarily.

Nope. If you are being paid it will be deducted from your JSA entitlement even if you do give it to charity. If you do unpaid voluntary work you are not receiving payment so there is nothing to deduct from the JSA payment.

sammilo

I remembered reading that you could get tax relief on donations to charity and thought there might be something similar in place for JSA, but thinking about it I couldn’t really see the government being that generous.

Thanks for all your replies.