I'm on jobseekers atm. Nothing wrong with it if you need it. It's only just over £100 every 2 weeks but tbh without it I would have had to move back in with my parents. I'm doing everything possible to get a job after graduating. It's just the people that live on it for years that don't deserve it so just go for it.
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agreed.
If the guy is looking for work, then he may as well use it to help him out on a temporary basis.
Im claiming dole over summer before starting college. Its been a very easy and dignified expieriance so far.
Go in you have an appointment there is a nice waiting area at our job center. Its never very busy as its all appointments at certain dates. Had a lovely meeting with the women. Got it all arranged and went back Thursday passed to "sign on". Again very easy went in advised appointment time. Was called at exact time had a brief 5 minutes with her and signed the little declaration and thats all done.
If like me you have never done it I imagined a line of scruffy looking gits all banterin away waiting for ages like the full monty. Do it. Pride is not damaged.
Go in you have an appointment there is a nice waiting area at our job center. Its never very busy as its all appointments at certain dates. Had a lovely meeting with the women. Got it all arranged and went back Thursday passed to "sign on". Again very easy went in advised appointment time. Was called at exact time had a brief 5 minutes with her and signed the little declaration and thats all done.
If like me you have never done it I imagined a line of scruffy looking gits all banterin away waiting for ages like the full monty. Do it. Pride is not damaged.
In a similar situation myself.
Got made redundant at the start of the year, had a pretty good payout, but decided to take sometime out to go traveling. Since getting back, I've started to run out of money and haven't found a new job as quickly as I'd anticipated. Thus, I'm really going to need to claim the JSA soon, though I've never done so before.
I'd heard from a friend who also got made redundant that it's not too bad a process. As they know a lot of people have been made redundant in different areas that aren't hiring, so they don't expect you to come in and take a job in a shop or something.
Got made redundant at the start of the year, had a pretty good payout, but decided to take sometime out to go traveling. Since getting back, I've started to run out of money and haven't found a new job as quickly as I'd anticipated. Thus, I'm really going to need to claim the JSA soon, though I've never done so before.
I'd heard from a friend who also got made redundant that it's not too bad a process. As they know a lot of people have been made redundant in different areas that aren't hiring, so they don't expect you to come in and take a job in a shop or something.
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signed on once in my life time , utterly soul destroying , silly people treat you like a dead beat and basically treat you like a I imagine a prison guard would speak to you. When I had a break in employment through choice for 6 weeks I ended taking the urine out of them and have a few beers and generally make a joke out of it everytime I signed on!
I know its not big or clever but it kept me sane! Hated every second of it , but like has been said your entitled to it and to keep your NI in check
I know its not big or clever but it kept me sane! Hated every second of it , but like has been said your entitled to it and to keep your NI in check
Sign on. Its not the money, but you have paid you NI and Tax for just this eventuality.
I signed on and was on it for 4 weeks, I was already searching for a job beforehand! But I had just moved back up home so it was a bit slow going. I was told that becasue of my chosen career I did not need to come back for 13 weeks, and that it was all paid every 2 weeks.
I never had a problem with their attitude, but then, it depends what sort of attitude you go in with.
I signed on and was on it for 4 weeks, I was already searching for a job beforehand! But I had just moved back up home so it was a bit slow going. I was told that becasue of my chosen career I did not need to come back for 13 weeks, and that it was all paid every 2 weeks.
I never had a problem with their attitude, but then, it depends what sort of attitude you go in with.
I was signed on after graduating last year, they gave me a month or so to find a job relevant to my degree before they got me behind a bar or something.
Luckily i didn't take to long to find something, they even helped out with travelling to interviews and eventually moving up to London which was useful.
I found going to the centre to sign on quite depressing, though they seemed to get me in and out fairly quickly, much to the dismay of the special-brew, adidas clad regular.
Luckily i didn't take to long to find something, they even helped out with travelling to interviews and eventually moving up to London which was useful.
I found going to the centre to sign on quite depressing, though they seemed to get me in and out fairly quickly, much to the dismay of the special-brew, adidas clad regular.
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I had the same thing. JCP is one of the most depressing places in this country. Good motivation to get a job though.
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Indeed it is.
Sign up for dole, it helps for National insurance contributions and stuff.
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Very true , I seem to remember them trying to get me to take a job for fiver a hour and it was a 45 minute drive to there, when I explained most of my wages would be taken up by the drive , her response was do you want to work or not
Signing on sucks, but it's there to help people in your situation. If it wasn't for all the people abusing the system the process might not be so hellish. I remember being told I had to apply for jobs that they chose for me from their database if I wanted to sign on, so I had to go to an interview at a high street jewellery shop (after telling them i'd be happy with any warehousing or labouring type work) - I think it was just a joke on their part, they would have to be seriously mentally incapacitated to think I'd even be considered for the role and it was a big blatant waste of time like most of the stuff they do.
I've only once ever got a job through using the jobcentre and that was a day labouring job I got because I was the first person to phone in and ended up staying there for about 9 months.
I've only once ever got a job through using the jobcentre and that was a day labouring job I got because I was the first person to phone in and ended up staying there for about 9 months.
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Same as me, back from travelling, money running out so i've just signed on and had my first meeting today.
I first got served by a pretty hot milf, who processed some forms for me, had a nice chat with her before I got sent to the next chap to run over a few things. The guy was a right laugh, spent about 15 mins with him having a bit of banter and as he saw I wasn't your average 'give me free money, can't get a job claimer' he pretty much sent me on my way and let me get on with searching for jobs myself.
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an overall pleasant experience.
I've been claming JSA since I lost my job in January, I think of it this way; I've worked hard all my life since leaving school, JSA supplies me with the needs to live until I find a new job and I ain't like the other benefit grabbing loosers! 
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Not exactly the best choice of words, you seem to have used the system as part or a lifestyle choice, rather than as a genuine safety net?
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no, as i've said my moneys running out hence the need to start claiming it now. Been back 2 months before I started claiming.
and the reference to 'i want free money' type of people, was that they are the sort of people that would claim it just because they can but would put no effort into finding work or wanting to work. Of which to the guy interviewing me I was clearly neither.
If I was in your situation I would be straight to the dole without a 2nd thought.
You have worked hard to save that money and paid your taxes and national insurance. Why should you have to spend your hard earned savings while scroungers that have never contributed to the state don't have any such misgivings about going cap in hand?
Forget about pride and go and claim what your entitled to.
You have worked hard to save that money and paid your taxes and national insurance. Why should you have to spend your hard earned savings while scroungers that have never contributed to the state don't have any such misgivings about going cap in hand?
Forget about pride and go and claim what your entitled to.
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I had to sign on when I was made redundant, otherwise my payment protection for a loan would not have kicked in! 