Redundancy News - Weighing up my options would help with some feedback

20vt-rs

Ratkin007 said:

if you do not get a job straight away, it is worth considering applying for new style job seekers allowance.  I don't know much about benefits but I believe your savings are not considered for the first 6 months. Many people make the mistake of living of their redundancy and then when they apply they are not eligible because they are outside the 6 month period and have some savings. May be worth looking into as it looks like it is up to £92 per week.  

Thanks for this, yes this is one of the first things I did after becoming officially unemployed 

I registered but haven't heard anything yet, was probably around a couple of weeks ago now.

monkey-fingers

20vt-rs said:

Ratkin007 said:

if you do not get a job straight away, it is worth considering applying for new style job seekers allowance.  I don't know much about benefits but I believe your savings are not considered for the first 6 months. Many people make the mistake of living of their redundancy and then when they apply they are not eligible because they are outside the 6 month period and have some savings. May be worth looking into as it looks like it is up to £92 per week.  

Thanks for this, yes this is one of the first things I did after becoming officially unemployed 

I registered but haven't heard anything yet, was probably around a couple of weeks ago now.

It was weird. I had the same thing last year.

I didn't hear back. Then I received my first payment into the bank. The letter came about a week later.

20vt-rs

monkey-fingers said:

20vt-rs said:

Ratkin007 said:

if you do not get a job straight away, it is worth considering applying for new style job seekers allowance.  I don't know much about benefits but I believe your savings are not considered for the first 6 months. Many people make the mistake of living of their redundancy and then when they apply they are not eligible because they are outside the 6 month period and have some savings. May be worth looking into as it looks like it is up to £92 per week.  

Thanks for this, yes this is one of the first things I did after becoming officially unemployed 

I registered but haven't heard anything yet, was probably around a couple of weeks ago now.

It was weird. I had the same thing last year.

I didn't hear back. Then I received my first payment into the bank. The letter came about a week later.

Ah ok, hopefully it's like that for me... I did read when registering that I would need to go to local job centre for an interview etc, so will hopefully hear something this week.

monkey-fingers

20vt-rs said:

monkey-fingers said:

20vt-rs said:

Ratkin007 said:

if you do not get a job straight away, it is worth considering applying for new style job seekers allowance.  I don't know much about benefits but I believe your savings are not considered for the first 6 months. Many people make the mistake of living of their redundancy and then when they apply they are not eligible because they are outside the 6 month period and have some savings. May be worth looking into as it looks like it is up to £92 per week.  

Thanks for this, yes this is one of the first things I did after becoming officially unemployed 

I registered but haven't heard anything yet, was probably around a couple of weeks ago now.

It was weird. I had the same thing last year.

I didn't hear back. Then I received my first payment into the bank. The letter came about a week later.

Ah ok, hopefully it's like that for me... I did read when registering that I would need to go to local job centre for an interview etc, so will hopefully hear something this week.

Yup. That came through just before the payment.

I understand why you have to do it, but it's a sobering process. My work coach was a good guy and could see I was doing everything in my power to get a job, so he didn't really bother me. He was also really happy when I told him I had got a new job.

Whilst I was in there though, you could tell they were weary from others who clearly had no wish to actually get a job. He was trying to get a young woman to attend an interview and she kept coming up with excuses why she couldn't attend - she had a booking to get her nails done. It was her Gran's birthday. And so on.