Universal Credit - Money reduced because child in education.

sazaccount

.........If you knew my son you wouldn't even suggest that. He has an amazing mind and capability with numbers but he is not a hands on person. He is a millennial that does everything on a computer, a geek if you like. 
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I don't want to derail the thread however your son is not a millennial, the youngest millennial is 24 and the oldest is nearly 40. He is a Gen Z. Not that means that he can't join the military, my brother is 22 and very much a PlayStation lad but will be applying in the new year. 

Also a lot of places are hiring for Christmas work which could lead onto a more long term evening/weekend job, it is not going to have too much impact on his studies, it would be good to also save some money for when he goes to uni, it isn't cheap and its good to have some fund behind you for the "fun" stuff. I worked pretty much full time though my 2nd and 3rd years of uni and did work full time though my masters. 

Lanzarote1938

It astounds me that the OP said she was in receipt of £370 a month to keep this young man...that is a huge sum of money, no wonder  parents feel the pinch when it stops.

yksi

sheramber said:

sparkyuiop said:

 

He doesn't sit at home all week and when he does he mostly studies. He has applied for jobs and still is including going to interviews so I wish people would stop suggesting he is a dosser as he most defiantly is not.

He does want a job but at the moment with COVID and the fact he needs a distinction or merit to get to university his study has all of his priorities. 

So, which is it?

He's looking for jobs, but doesn't want a job (I bet the interviewers can't tell that he has no interest!). The story changes continually in reaction to every comment and suggestion we give. If he doesn't like the answers, well we simply don't know him. We are being trolled here.

Needs to study fulltime to pass a 12h course? Either he isn't suited to academia or he needs time-management skills. A job will help the latter.
Not successful at interviews? Prepare better. Learn the likely questions. Apply for everything, not just what looks fun. The average cleaning/housekeeping job applicant is terrible, puts the interviewer off with some weird habit during the interview, and is unprepared to talk about any of their knowledge or skills at all. Know the usual interview questions, prepare the answers, and he will beat them if he is persistant. Unskilled jobs don't go to the most skilled applicant. They go to the one who can confidently rattle off the story which answers the interview question. That is - the science of being able to spin good bullsheet. I know you don't trust me (because I don't know him) but trust me on this one, I have recruited well over a thousand applicants. Distinctions will get him nowhere in working life if he can't win over the interviewer.

It's actually going to be less work for you to proactively shift your kid into the proper work-is-the-priority mindset than it will be to convince the world that he should be paid for not wanting to work.