Benefits - what can i claim
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willd58 said:
I work at The Link and i do love what i do.
I do -
Monday - 5-8
Tuesday - 5-8
Friday - 4-8
Sunday - 10-4
I asked yesterday for more hours as that is all they gave me when i s tarted, so i will see what they have come up with today.
I have to help my mum a lot hence why i'm not working full time.
If they offered me more hours, i would take it for sure.
Also, for the people who think i didn't look for a job.
I did, for months and only got this through my brother's friend.
Andy
There is no way you couldn't get a full time job in a local supermarket somewhere. They are always hiring. I've never understood people who claim they can't get a job. I could get fired today and be working next monday. I'd have to be as well. It wouldn't be well paid or fun, but it would be full time and honest work.
DaveyD said:
I looked at jobs in Retail, in support (1st hand and more).
I even looked at jobs in warehouses but it was only night work, meaning i would have to sleep during the day and would not be able to help my mum.
I was sending off at least 6 cv's a week and ringing companies.
All the support jobs wanted experience which i have none.
Everyone in my college class are all in dead in jobs so college was a waste of time.
As i say, i love my job at the link and i guess more hours and show i can sell is going to get me more money and comission.
Andy
Aruffell said:
It must be a utter nightmare to get a decent job!! I can see your trying the best you can, have you tried applying for a job in PC world or Currys? Since you already work for a well known electrodomestic store you might be able to get a full time job within them.
My oldest sister is a HR manager for Tescos, tescos advertise a job, for example 10 x cashiers needed full time to work. People see the job, apply for the job and get nothing back for months.
The majority of Tescos stores already have a good 100 people on record ready to employ so your details basically go in a queue ready for when it's your turn.
if your dad is disabled you can also claim some money as a live-in carer.
(i personally would still go down the job route because you want to progress your life dont you, rather than just sponging off the system your whole life...)
(i personally would still go down the job route because you want to progress your life dont you, rather than just sponging off the system your whole life...)
I'm sure there must be some factories near you crying out for workers? It might not be glamorours but a lot fo places have to rely on immigrant workers and temps because they just cannot get the full time staff.
A place I used to work in the Uni holidays would pay £7 per hour basic, with an extra shift allowance and anti social hours bonus. I used to work 6 nights on, 3 nights off, 8 to 10 hours per night. Can't remember the exact figures, but it came to something like £350 per week - that's a decent amount.
Raked it in and payed for my first car and insurance.
Get something like that, and you wouldnt be too far away if any of your family needed you during the day.
In the evening when your working, hopefully someone else would be home and able to tend to them if needed.
A place I used to work in the Uni holidays would pay £7 per hour basic, with an extra shift allowance and anti social hours bonus. I used to work 6 nights on, 3 nights off, 8 to 10 hours per night. Can't remember the exact figures, but it came to something like £350 per week - that's a decent amount.
Raked it in and payed for my first car and insurance.
Get something like that, and you wouldnt be too far away if any of your family needed you during the day.
In the evening when your working, hopefully someone else would be home and able to tend to them if needed.
You can always get jobs.
Manual labour if your not handicaped, Warehouse, order picking, ect ect
office work.
retailers
Theres plenty of jobs which you need no qualifications for, get your cv up2 scratch. Post it on here and w'ill help. Then just apply apply apply. Look at the evening post (or what ever your local jobs paper is). I'm happy in my job, but I still look in the papers every week and apply for jobs usually once a month. You can always turn them down.
Manual labour if your not handicaped, Warehouse, order picking, ect ect
office work.
retailers
Theres plenty of jobs which you need no qualifications for, get your cv up2 scratch. Post it on here and w'ill help. Then just apply apply apply. Look at the evening post (or what ever your local jobs paper is). I'm happy in my job, but I still look in the papers every week and apply for jobs usually once a month. You can always turn them down.
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Phantom said:
As phantom said, there is Disability Living Allowance(DLA), carers allowance, heck depending on your dad's level of disability, he could be entitled to a motability car, you need to look into this asap, plus even if you have a full time job your parents can still qualify for this and be awarded it.
I for one admire that you want help out, the above benfits were designed for people in your situation.
Madgeordie2004 said:
If his dad is disabled and getting higher rate mobility, then as you say the dad could get a car - but it would mean giving up most/allowance of the mobility allowance (about £45 a week).
It can be cheaper to get a decent second hand car in the long run, the father should also be able to get free road tax (form from DLA) if the car is used primarily for his benefit.
If the father is getting medium or higher rate care then someone can claim carers allowance (about £40 a week IIRC) for helping look after him.
If the father is disabled, but not getting any of the disability allowances definately look into it with them (the helpline is normally pretty good), and if he's turned down at first attempt, don't give up - the way the system is at the moment seems to be a case of "roll a dice" to award it (and let it go to "look again", appeal, Tribunal if the claimant is up to pushing for it).
If Aruffels father is disabled and needs help, then I can understand the reason he doesn't want to have to work odd hours, and probably cannot work a full "normal" week, as caring for a disabled member of the family can take up a huge amount of time one way or another.
The government gets it done damned cheap using the benefits system to help support family/friends as carers, as opposed to professionals who charge by the hour/callout (a home help can cost £15 an hour if organised by the local council etc, so carers allowance is extremely cheap by comparison).
I don't mean to be rude, but it seems you are using 'helping your mum out' as an excuse to not get a proper job. The reason I'm saying that is that, maybe you're convincing yourself that you don't need a job or a career. Are you sure you don't have the time to do both?
I worked several summers as an IT bum which was just plain awesome. However, career wise I was clearly never going to make a living out of it, so I got a proper job.
I really think you're using your situation as an excuse to get a real job and are too comfortable doing not a lot, but want more money. You need to ask yourself if you're just being lazy or if you really don't have the time.
I worked several summers as an IT bum which was just plain awesome. However, career wise I was clearly never going to make a living out of it, so I got a proper job.
I really think you're using your situation as an excuse to get a real job and are too comfortable doing not a lot, but want more money. You need to ask yourself if you're just being lazy or if you really don't have the time.
Werewolf said:
I don't mean to be rude, but Aruffel has already said that his mum does the carer thing, and he works shorter hours to help.
imho it'd probably be more help for him to get a full time well paid job to assist with support than to try and get more benefits...
I could be wrong (missed summat somewhere) but that's what I think...