Advice required please

Andrea2528

Hi, is it worth applying for the Hardship payment if your benefits have been stopped temporarily?

TELLIT01

Take a look at this https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/help-if-on-a-low-income/jobseekers-allowance-jsa/jsa-appeals/applying-for-a-jsa-hardship-payment/
As you are living with your parents I don't think it will be easy to get the payment, although without more detail of your situation it's difficult to provide a definite answer.
If it's relevant, why have your JSA payments been sanctioned?

Andrea2528

The social anxiety that I struggle with on a daily basis made it difficult to attend a course they held because they involve too much interaction.

Diamandis

You knew you were going to be sanctioned and chose not to go anyway? What else were you doing that day?

Fireflyaway

The obvious thing would be to get a job. How hard have you tried / is there a reason you can't work? If my child found themselves unemployed, I'd help them out but would expect them to be applying for everything and anything. If you live at home you can't be struggling that much? Presumably your folks allow you to eat meals and take a bath?

Sncjw

I’m guessing you didn’t turn up to sign on last week then as stated in your last thread.

Energize

Fireflyaway wrote: »

The obvious thing would be to get a job. How hard have you tried / is there a reason you can't work? If my child found themselves unemployed, I'd help them out but would expect them to be applying for everything and anything. If you live at home you can't be struggling that much? Presumably your folks allow you to eat meals and take a bath?

Well she says she has social anxiety disorder which is a significant disability and a big barrier to employment that usually requires extensive therapy to overcome.

TELLIT01

I don't pretent to understand how social anxiety affects people, but editing posts to remove useful information is both rude and counter productive. The original post (pre-edit) stated that she lives with her parents and my response was based on that information.

RichardD1970

TELLIT01 wrote: »

I don't pretent to understand how social anxiety affects people, but editing posts to remove useful information is both rude and counter productive. The original post (pre-edit) stated that she lives with her parents and my response was based on that information.

It can be truly debilitating.

My 17yr old son suffers with anxiety and depression. He dropped out of school and didn't do any of his GCSE's despite being on the gifted and talented register.

He has hardly left the house in 2 years.

He wants to do stuff and will say he is going to come with us, and he means it at the time, but when it actually comes to it he can't make himself and gets visibly agitated and exhibits mild "stimming" behaviours.

Diamandis

These posts have been very significantly edited.

TELLIT01

RichardD1970 wrote: »

It can be truly debilitating.

My 17yr old son suffers with anxiety and depression. He dropped out of school and didn't do any of his GCSE's despite being on the gifted and talented register.

He has hardly left the house in 2 years.

He wants to do stuff and will say he is going to come with us, and he means it at the time, but when it actually comes to it he can't make himself and gets visibly agitated and exhibits mild "stimming" behaviours.

Thanks Richard, but would that also explain every post by the OP in this topic being edited to remove helpful detail after receiving answers?