Job seekers allowance

thephantom114 · 18 Jul 2008 at 16:00

I know the above is generally frowned upon but my last job (as a waiter) has ended until September at the earliest excluding the odd shift here and there.

While I'm looking for another job I can apply for JSA even though I've applied to university can't I?

Hopefully I won't be claiming it for too long. Just enough to tide me over for a while.

Cheers

neil3k · 18 Jul 2008 at 16:02

You a student ???

KNiVES · 18 Jul 2008 at 16:03

You can scrounge the dole if you've applied to university but haven't been sorted a place or course yet.

thephantom114 · 18 Jul 2008 at 16:06

KNiVES said:
You can scrounge the dole if you've applied to university but haven't been sorted a place or course yet.

I'm going into my first year, I haven't actually started yet. I've been accepted to a course so does that mean I can?

misterPK · 18 Jul 2008 at 16:07

Ask the nice people at the job centre??

PK!

KNiVES · 18 Jul 2008 at 16:08

thephantom114 said:
I'm going into my first year, I haven't actually started yet. I've been accepted to a course so does that mean I can?

This is a bit of a grey area I think, I would assume that they would let you sign on anyway - after all, even if a person is going to university sometime in the future, he can still find employment until then, so the JSA would be usable too, in absence of any job opportunities. You should look on www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk though just in case.

hogfather · 18 Jul 2008 at 16:09

Go and ask!

Mate, don't feel embarassed about it or anything. The whole point of the system is that if you fall on hard times it helps you until you're sorted.

It doesn't make you a benefits fraud or scum of the earth. Its one of the points of paying taxes!

thephantom114 · 18 Jul 2008 at 16:10

misterPK said:
Ask the nice people at the job centre??

PK!

Good idea lol.

thephantom114 · 18 Jul 2008 at 16:11

Ok I'm going up the job centre anyway to ya kow job hunt so I'll have an ask around then as well.

Cheers guys

KNiVES · 18 Jul 2008 at 16:11

As long as you're genuinely looking for a job in the meantime we won't organize a lynch mob to come and kill you for taking our taxes.

Van Hellseek · 18 Jul 2008 at 16:13

Basically you can claim JSA so long as you are able to work.

So no matter your status, if you are available for work, but havn't got a job you can claim.

thephantom114 · 18 Jul 2008 at 16:16

Don't worry KNiVES I geuninely will be looking for a job in the mean time. At the very worst it'll only be until September when my other job starts back up. Hopefully it won't be that long though.

CaptainComedy · 18 Jul 2008 at 17:32

KNiVES said:
As long as you're genuinely looking for a job in the meantime we won't organize a lynch mob to come and kill you for taking our taxes.

I thought that the dole first takes money that you have put in first and then public taxes

my brother had dole until september last year and then he wasnt sure what was going to happen.