being out of work - any benefits these days?

A_Nice_Englishman

I'd suggest he goes home and lives off his parents until he feels like working again.

KatrinaWaves

If I told my parents I didn’t want to work anymore and what benefits could I get, I don’t think their reaction would be to ask online for advice. They’d tell me to stop being a lazy g1t.

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Tell him to get an apprenticeship - ours only does a 4 day week (and no there is no day release to college)

We even had a part time job of 1 day for someone coming back of the sick but it was to much of a stretch for them to stomach it. (eventually stay away from the workplace long enough, it happens)

I enjoyed the odd couple of weeks off inbetween jobs oh yes in the past few years only way I've coped full time for 20+ years. My current job had a 2 week wait to start, the one before that could have had a month. I've looked after myself for the last 4 years amid awful comments aimed at me.

Whilst you can move employers I would do that. The benefit system should be for the sick, immobile and terminal ill only. Everything else pails into insignificance.

JonVarnas

kinksfan wrote: »

Hi Peeps


My son has worked since Oct 2017 but wants to pack in for a while - when I was a lad we were entitled to dole but suspect things are more difficult now re UC and years of austerity. What can he claim - he shares a 2 bed flat in London with 2 friends both of whom work but they share the bills including the rent. Rent is roughly 300 each - will he get some or all of this from state and what else will he get - also does it depend on length of unemployment - does he have to wait? Ball park figs will do. He is 22, 23 in few months.

The dole still exists, just a name change with a few tweaks - mainly being paid monthly instead of every two weeks.



As a single bloke he'd get £250 a month standard allowance, the new equivalent of JSA, and would receive enough to pay his share of the rent, so all in all he'd get about £550 a month. It takes five weeks from the start of the claim to receive the first payment but you can immediately apply for an advance and pay it back in installments.



With regards to jacking in the job, I wouldn't worry to much about it as in practice the DWP doesn't have the staff to go chasing up employers and with so many jobs that are temp/zero hour the probably won't even ask at the interview.


The regime is stricter on paper but really isn't that different from the the old system if you know how to play the game. So long as you tick their boxes they pretty much leave you alone.

Afraid_of_Kittens

3 friends - 2 bedroom flat. Does he share a room/bed with one of the other friends. Is he a partner to any or both of them?