JSA due to expire

whattodowithit

Been claiming 'new' JSA since May2020, in between working C.I.S, and my JSA is due to end (Had two spells of JSA totally six months).

Will I have to claim and/or be entitled to UC (or other beneift), or expected to get by on what we have?

My partner works part-time (18hr/wk) and gets a little pension. I have some savings.
Would we have to claim together?

Also, while working (C.I.S) this past Covid year I had no additional benefit, whereas some lads on site were given 'extra' monthly cash through the covid furlough scheme/accountants claiming monies while still working. (Was that in error (they might of been working as Limited companies) or would I of also had a claim? (Seems unlikely/unfair)).

MovingForwards

How much savings?
How much does your partner earn and receive from her pension?
There's also mention of a rental property in your other post.

It's probably the self-employed grants your colleagues received, if they met criteria they could claim it, same as you could have.  Furlough didn't pay extra wages.

Have you used any benefit calculators to see what you could claim? Entitled to / turn to us are helpful.

smc4761

Hi folks hope someone can maybe help
After 32 years my wife was made redundant from her supermarket job, and for first time in her life she made a benefit claim and is receiving JSA. She has been very fortunate, she now has another part time job but is not due to start until end of April. 
Will she still be entitled to JSA until she starts her new job. Thanks

sammyjammy

She will be expecting to continue to seek work during that period if she wishes to continue with her claim.

smc4761

sammyjammy said:

She will be expecting to continue to seek work during that period if she wishes to continue with her claim.

Thank you, it seems a bit strange that she would need to continue to look for work when she already has a job to go to in 6 weeks, but I can see the logic behind it

Savvy_Sue

smc4761 said:

sammyjammy said:

She will be expecting to continue to seek work during that period if she wishes to continue with her claim.

Thank you, it seems a bit strange that she would need to continue to look for work when she already has a job to go to in 6 weeks, but I can see the logic behind it

Yup, the logic is that the benefit is called Job Seekers Allowance. Anyone not actively seeking isn't entitled. 

Plus she may be able to pick up some temporary work - and she could actively look for such. 

Plus sometimes an offer is taken back, so she won't actually start the new job.

Plus you never know, she may be offered something better! 

Plus she should not tell them until the day before she starts the new job. 

bartelbe

Savvy_Sue said:

smc4761 said:

sammyjammy said:

She will be expecting to continue to seek work during that period if she wishes to continue with her claim.

Thank you, it seems a bit strange that she would need to continue to look for work when she already has a job to go to in 6 weeks, but I can see the logic behind it

Yup, the logic is that the benefit is called Job Seekers Allowance. Anyone not actively seeking isn't entitled. 

Plus she may be able to pick up some temporary work - and she could actively look for such. 

Plus sometimes an offer is taken back, so she won't actually start the new job.

Plus you never know, she may be offered something better! 

Plus she should not tell them until the day before she starts the new job. 

There is no logic to it, it is the usual computer says no jobsworth public sector non-sense. She has a job lined up, so what do the jobcentre expect her to do? Waste the time of a potential employer by applying for a job that she will leave almost immediately? With the notice period on some jobs, she would literally start and put in her resignation on the same day.

I get the point about making sure people don't take the !!!!!! and stay on benefits but in this case a little common-sense should be shown. It is about time those in the jobsworth public sector joined the real world.

General_Grant

bartelbe said:

Savvy_Sue said:

smc4761 said:

sammyjammy said:

She will be expecting to continue to seek work during that period if she wishes to continue with her claim.

Thank you, it seems a bit strange that she would need to continue to look for work when she already has a job to go to in 6 weeks, but I can see the logic behind it

Yup, the logic is that the benefit is called Job Seekers Allowance. Anyone not actively seeking isn't entitled. 

Plus she may be able to pick up some temporary work - and she could actively look for such. 

Plus sometimes an offer is taken back, so she won't actually start the new job.

Plus you never know, she may be offered something better! 

Plus she should not tell them until the day before she starts the new job. 

There is no logic to it, it is the usual computer says no jobsworth public sector non-sense. She has a job lined up, so what do the jobcentre expect her to do? Waste the time of a potential employer by applying for a job that she will leave almost immediately? With the notice period on some jobs, she would literally start and put in her resignation on the same day.

I get the point about making sure people don't take the !!!!!! and stay on benefits but in this case a little common-sense should be shown. It is about time those in the jobsworth public sector joined the real world.

So you think that someone not seeking a job should receive funding from a scheme which is for those who are seeking work?

If she wants to trust that the job she has been offered doesn't disappear before her due start date and that she wouldn't take a temporary job in the meantime or find a better job, then she can stop looking for work but shouldn't expect to receive money for not doing what her contract with the DWP said she would do.

Savvy_Sue

bartelbe said:

Savvy_Sue said:

smc4761 said:

sammyjammy said:

She will be expecting to continue to seek work during that period if she wishes to continue with her claim.

Thank you, it seems a bit strange that she would need to continue to look for work when she already has a job to go to in 6 weeks, but I can see the logic behind it

Yup, the logic is that the benefit is called Job Seekers Allowance. Anyone not actively seeking isn't entitled. 

Plus she may be able to pick up some temporary work - and she could actively look for such. 

Plus sometimes an offer is taken back, so she won't actually start the new job.

Plus you never know, she may be offered something better! 

Plus she should not tell them until the day before she starts the new job. 

There is no logic to it, it is the usual computer says no jobsworth public sector non-sense. She has a job lined up, so what do the jobcentre expect her to do? Waste the time of a potential employer by applying for a job that she will leave almost immediately? With the notice period on some jobs, she would literally start and put in her resignation on the same day.

I get the point about making sure people don't take the !!!!!! and stay on benefits but in this case a little common-sense should be shown. It is about time those in the jobsworth public sector joined the real world.

The logic is as I described. You disagree with it, and that is your right.