Temp job, then go back on JSA

continualdiamond

Just a quick q.

My OH has been asked in for an interview, but the job at the moment is only temp for 6 weeks, they can't tell him if it will become longer.

Can he take the job and if it does only last for 6 weeks, then sign back on for JSA? Also would his time claiming (6mths) be restarted again or would it continue on from his current time claiming?

dmg24

Yes, he can go back on to JSA once the contract has finished. His claim will restart from the same point as when he signed off (presumably income based JSA if he has been claiming for six months) x

Conor_3

Yes he can sign off for a short period. His time would start again. One good thing is that he'll only have to fill out a shortened application form.

CarolynH

He can take the job then go back on JSA. His 'time' would continue on and not be reset.

healy

Yes he can sign back on for JSA if the job does not last as he would have a perfectlly valid reason for doing so. I think the two claims would also be linked, hopefully someone can confirm this.

dmg24

healy wrote: »

Yes he can sign back on for JSA if the job does not last as he would have a perfectlly valid reason for doing so. I think the two claims would also be linked, hopefully someone can confirm this.

Yep, the linking period is twelve weeks. This is especially relevant if the OP's husband was coming to the end of their entitlement to contributions based JSA.

continualdiamond

So just to confirm that at the end of the 6 weeks his entitlement of claiming JSA contribution based would not be re started? ie 6mths claiming again.

He's been claiming JSA contribution based for 2 mths, so of course only has 4 months left to claim.

So if the job wasn't extended beyond 6 weeks, he would only have 4 months of JSA left to claim, so effectively his claim would be frozen and then started from where he left off?

dmg24

continualdiamond wrote: »

So just to confirm that at the end of the 6 weeks his entitlement of claiming JSA contribution based would not be re started? ie 6mths claiming again.

He's been claiming JSA contribution based for 2 mths, so of course only has 4 months left to claim.

So if the job wasn't extended beyond 6 weeks, he would only have 4 months of JSA left to claim, so effectively his claim would be frozen and then started from where he left off?

That is correct, yes x

ALIBOBSY

It is a bit more complex than that.

You get 26 wks(182 days) of cont based JSA for each set of relevant contributary tax years used.

They take the benefit year (Which runs from the first full week in Jan through to Dec each year and look at your contributions in the 2 previous tax yrs. E.G claim start of dec 2007 ben yr=2007 tax yrs 05/06,04/05. Sign off for a few weeks (less than 12 wk gap between claims) and your new claim will link back to the earlier claim date and be based on the same tax yrs so will continue counting down your days.

However sign off for say 13 wks and go back on you get a new claim date as it doesn't link and so may get a new set of tax yrs.
In the example I made up sign off for 13 wks and go back on JSA in say March 2008, this gives a ben yr of 2008, so new tax yrs of 06/07 and 05/06. This means new set of 26 wks.

Don't ask why the government didn't align benefit years with tax years, who knows?
Obviously this only applies around claims from the end and start of the year where the benefit year can end up being different.
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CarolynH

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

Don't ask why the government didn't align benefit years with tax years, who knows?

Government departments can't TALK to each other, I think they think the sky would fall if they offered any sort of joined up service.

dmg24

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

It is a bit more complex than that.

So for what the OP asked it is not more complicated.

A six week break means you go back to where you were before - simple!