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JSB to be cut!!

  • 01-09-2010 11:17am
    #1
    elle81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭


    Hi
    I received a letter yesterday to say my jobseekers benefit will be cut in a few weeks.
    I am currently working week on/week of as these are the only hours available for me. I started on a flexible contract when extra hours (mostly full time) was available but this is not the case anymore so I am working week on/week off all the time.
    I am however available for work on my week off and even done a beautician course in 2008 but cant find work in this industry either to slot in with my week on.
    Any advice?
    I rang them and they said i have enough stamps but my hours have been cut (week on/week off) for so long that these are classed as my "regular" hours.
    I will not qualify for JS Allowance on a means test as mu husband is also working
    Thanks

    thanks


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  • #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    If you could try to change the hours to two or three days a week then you would probably keep it because the rule is
    Be unemployed (you must be fully unemployed or unemployed for at least 3 days in 6)

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #3
    OmeGar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭OmeGar


    because you are on Job Seekers Benefit you must have a substanial loss of employment, this is defined as follows:

    from Welfare page on JSB
    you must have lost at least one day's employment and as a result of this loss be unemployed for at least 3 days out of 6 days. Your earnings must also have been reduced because of the loss of employment.

    So you have been receving JSB now for over a Year, and your entitlement is drawing to a close, however you could requalify because of the number of stamps you have paid from a certain point of your claim(i think it is the 156 paid day, but i could be worng on that).

    However this is where substainal loss comes in. They have looked at your claim, and seeing as week on/week off seems to be your new standard, there is no loss of employment.

    the 3 in 6 rule does not really apply here.


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