Benefits - what can i claim

Fusion said:
How can you be taxed on £68 a week? :/
Click to expand...

He cant, and with 16hrs a week you should be on at least £75, I work that part time in a pub on 2 weekend nights, while at uni.

To be honest, look at gettin a 40+hr a week job.

KaHn
 
Go to a job agency such as reed, sign up. Get an office job where you need limited skills. They will start you on an 8 week contract or something but if you work hard chances are you will be kept on.

Yes it might not be much fun but do you really have a choice? I took a gap year and did this. I was earning around around £230 a week net pay. It seems you are a bit work shy to me.
 
He's only paying tax as his employer has him down on emergency tax.

I'd personally say go look for any sort of full time job. There's got to be something out there, if not apprenticeships or something with lots of training to start with.
 
Aruffell said:
I was told that i should be able to claim housing benefit.

WRONG, because i live with my parents who are on income support and incapacity benefit anyway because my dad is disabled.

So is there anything i can claim to help pay my rent
Click to expand...

No, in a word. Housing benefit is assessed on the basis of household income. Added to which, people living with their parents are not eligible for obvious reasons.

Move out and get your own place, and you will be eligible for it ;)
 
Stretch said:
I've never known Kent to be a hotbed of unemployment. Where exactly do you live?
Click to expand...

It's not. I live in Rochester...and have had many jobs in the surrounding area. There are PLENTY of jobs out there; fact. Job shy comes to mind...or he's VERY picky about what he's willing to do.

This is Aruffel's bi-monthly 'i can't get a job' thread. Everyone gives him the same advice, say the same things...over and over.

General Office jobs in your area... http://www.jobsinkent.com/jobseeker...w&i=0&search=category&submit.x=86&submit.y=26

Four pages of them, and that's just one site.
 
Aruffell said:
I am paying tax.

In my eyes it's my money that i'm getting back anyway.
Click to expand...

You won't be paying tax at all, nor National Insurance come to that mind.. the tax limit starts at £4,895 per year annual salary - if you are, somethings wrong.

Like many have said on here, you want more cash - work more hours.
 
You really ought to try and earn enough to pay NI contributions, because otherwise you won't be building up any future state pension entitlement. You need to earn something like £90 a week for that.

Bear in mind that if you're on JSA, you do get your NI record credited, but if you work and earn under the £90(ish) amount, you will end up with a hole in your record.
 
Personally I would look at agency work and just keep applying for full time positions.

If you end up in a full time job you don't like you can try finding something else. The thing to remember is that once you get into a job you can start to be more picky with what you apply for next time round.
 
Johnny Girth said:
Why the hell don't you have a proper job and start earning money?
Click to expand...


Because for some people it's not as easy as that :)

When I left high school, I tried applying for jobs in Asda, a certain shop with purple people, other high-street electronic retailers.... I must have written to about 30 different places. Out of all those, I only got 1 reply turning me down.

I didn't get a job until I was 18 and that was part time... although I can't complain. I was paid cash in hand and the money was reasonable.

I only got this job I have now due to the boss being a family friend. If I hadn't, I reckon'd I'd still be unemployed or on a really crap wage.
 
agw_01 said:
Because for some people it's not as easy as that :)
Click to expand...

You sound slightly different though in that you actively tried your best to get a job.

Rather than doing that, the OP just wants to (seemingly) take the easy way out and live off benefits.
 
Aruffell said:
I am paying tax.

In my eyes it's my money that i'm getting back anyway.
Click to expand...

Oh save it. You're wanting benefits because you're not willing to suck it up and get a full time job unless it's your dream job. This is the real world, and the sooner you realise things aren't just going to fall into your lap the better. Oh, and if you're getting YOUR tax back then I presume you're not paying for the NHS, schools, army, the genuinely needy etc, you're just funding your own benefits yeah? Well that's great too.

If you're adamant you're keeping this dream job that doesn't provide enough hours or pay enough money then get another one to fill up the rest of your working week. 2 days out of 5 is not enough, full time students hold down jobs with more hours.
 
agw_01 said:
Because for some people it's not as easy as that :)
Click to expand...

The difference here is that you tried to get a job whereas I can remember the OP posting that he was too good to stack shelves because he had a 'degree' and he didn't want to have wasted his time doing that for nothing. Although AFAIK it was a btec or something similar not a university degree.
 
Claim you've hurt your arm and get sick pay.

Oh, wait, not that kind of claim.

Try looking into tax credits. Alternatively... get a better paying job.
 
quit your job, get some teenager pregnant, then claim everything under the sun.

On no account work for a living and try asking for some help, the benefits agency isn't setup for people like you.
 
Tbh, to a lot of people its guna sound like your family's living off the state as it is, get a full time job, even if you dont like the work, stacking chelves or punching in numbers onto a computer, whats your current job that you like so much?

Murf said:
2 days out of 5 is not enough, full time students hold down jobs with more hours.
Click to expand...

Exactly, i mean, are you disabled in anyway? is there somthing preventing you from working?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom