Can I claim JSA if I’m about to start a MA @ Uni...

Morata_

My current contract will expire on 31.8.19.

I am due to start Uni on the 23.9.19 but my bursary doesn’t start until October. Can I start a signing on claim on the 1.9.19 as I won’t have anything coming in during September and have a mortgage and 3 children!?

I appreciate this might not be morally correct but I’ve worked for 15+ years paying full NI contributions and tax...

Thanks.

TELLIT01

No reason not to try. Your NI contributions would suggest you would qualify for Conts JSA, but I don't know if the fact that you won't be actively seeking work might affect it.
If you don't try, you certainly won't get anything.

Newman2

Morata_ wrote: »

My current contract will expire on 31.8.19.

I am due to start Uni on the 23.9.19 but my bursary doesn’t start until October. Can I start a signing on claim on the 1.9.19 as I won’t have anything coming in during September and have a mortgage and 3 children!?

I appreciate this might not be morally correct but I’ve worked for 15+ years paying full NI contributions and tax...

Thanks.

dont forget that you won't receive anything until a couple if weeks later anyway so maybe around 20th I would guess after the waiting days and paid in arrears. UC even longer if you claimed that

Morata_

I wouldn’t mention Uni to the job coach’s!

Would state my “fixed term contract has come to an end”

tomtom256

How will you manage to attend your appointments if your at uni?

huckster

Have you thought about contacting University department that helps with benefit issues ?

Do you know whether your student bursary is enough to support you and when you have to contact Government departments e.g council for housing benefit, council tax reduction issue, Tax Credits etc.

Is claiming JSA contributary the best option ? Student benefits advice team or Citizens Advice might be worth contacting.

TELLIT01

tomtom256 wrote: »

How will you manage to attend your appointments if your at uni?

There is potential entitlement for the period between the FTC ending and starting at Uni. Once at Uni, the claim would have to be ended, unless the OP is disabled.

Morata_

I’m literally going to claim for the month, 1.9 - 23.9 (so maybe a couple of hundred £££)

The Bursary will decide whether I can accept this place, with the rough guides we should be able to cope. Ultimately I might have to get a little “Sunday” job in a supermarket which hopefully I can before Sept 1st and then I won’t “sign on” at all! I just wondered if I was allowed to?

Morata_

Uni doesn’t start till 23.9.

I would possibly have to attend 1 or 2 meetings before then. It’s not ideal, but it’s worrh the £200 I might get (as it’s about 3 weeks!) as it’s a 5 min drive from my house to offices!

Nannytone

1 you do realise that you will have to show evidence that you are spending 35 hours a week looking for work?

MovingForwards

How about looking at the supermarket jobs now and getting some applications in as I know there are several vacancies going for 12h, 14h etc a week, evenings / weekends; granted not great when you have a family but it keeps the money coming in.