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Jobseeker's Allowance Megathread ver. We're all overqualified!

Swarm said:
You gotta be careful with those cunts at JSA. The most I've ever managed is 3 months before being chucked off. Personally i find its easier to get a fuckin job. Some of the dudes there are sound but if you get one on your case you're fucked. I got my first official warning before they chucked me off for only applying for 5 of the 7 shitty jobs they "suggested". Apparently they are not suggestions, they are jobs you must apply for. Just a heads up there mate.

In fairness the reason i eventually got chucked off was because they felt that i had left my last job voluntarily, which was kind of true - though things got so fucked up there it was hard to see how i could have stayed. All that a side i genuinely did get official warnings and stuff within like 6 weeks of signing on. There's an art to it, I know dudes that's been on JSA for like 12 years and stuff but I was fucking lost at sea whenever it came to staying on the dole. I fucking hate that place anyway, having to set there with all the shit heads you havn't seen since they beat the shit out of you at school etc.. ugh.
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you are entitled to 6 months contribution based JSA if you resign your job, regardless of everything else, how much savings you have, whether you live with your parents or own your own home or w/e. My 6 months finished ages ago. I fucking hated going to that place. My particular job centre constantly reeked of piss, all the drunks of a night time used the buildings walls as a urinal, such was the high esteem in which the place was regarded. Lucky there's not piles of human excrement everywhere really, the place is fucking appalling :\
 
Let the fuckers who sit in those jobcentres causing severe hardships to folk by sanctioning them sit in a building that stinks of piss.
That's the least they deserve.
 
Im surprised there's not screens put up between the workers and the public as there is nearly everywehere else where there could be confrontation in this area. Even at the doctors reception. Not the pharmacists, the reception. They even had a security guard for a while. Fuck knows what had been going on, presumably people going nuts and getting declined whatever treatment or drugs they wanted. This is a fucking ROUGH area, a fairly near by supermarket had an armed robbery the other week. Just sheer luck i wasnt in there buying more yoghurts for my kratom at the time.
 
What a tit I am, had my first signing on today at 12.15. I woke up at 12 midday. silly boy. I got there at 12.25, luckily they let me off and I did sign on, but it's a but poor being late for my first signing.
 
i did pretty much the same, i missed one early days signing on, and got a very severe warning which put me at loggerheads with that particular guy. I later got transferred to a disabilty advisor who seemed to have a completely different attitude of genuinely caring and wanting to help, as opposed to the first guy whose main priority seemed to be to point out all my faults and weaknesses and look for reasons to sanction me.
 
mydrugbuddy said:
you are entitled to 6 months contribution based JSA if you resign your job\
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No shit? Those cunt's fuckin lied to me man. Oh well, like that's not gonna happen many many many more times before someone finally puts me out my misery. Still, might brick their windows on the way to work 2mo morning, for fucking pride man!
 
Seriously, 100 % for sure. I did it. I left it 3-4 months before i signed on, but that was for personal reasons. I dont know how long you have to wait, if any time at all. Every time you ask them a quation about benefits they make a great song and dance about "we are not benefit advisors" implying they dont have to tell you waht you are entitled to. And they dont. You have to find out for yourself. Everyone would expect people who work in job centres to be benefit advisors, but apparaently that is not their job at all to advise people on benefits. Their job is to get people OFF benefits one way or another.

I had an argument with one guy because he didnt tell me what i was entitled to and left me without income for weeks, and he told me "you didnt ask". The security gurad came over to keep an eye on me, for fuck sake. Every time i went there after that for a few weeks he would watch me, until he finally decided i was not a threat. That was all because i was by then speaking to a decent advisor who didnt get my back up.
 
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So true that Mdb.If you want to find out anything about benefits and what you are entitled to,you pretty much have to do it all yourself.
Now they have started a national removal of their freephones in jobcentres it's going to become even harder.
If you have no cash how can you call their benefit numbers or if you haven't received your benefits where will you get the money to call and say you haven't got any money due to their cock up.
 
DWP to delete 35,000 fake Catalogue Distribution vacancies on UniversalJobmatch in next
3 weeks after investigation.
 
Anyone who has been sanctioned for not applying for a job on universaljobmatch
should check if the job(s) in question were real.
 
I would pick fruit, its not like the jobs are desperately needing filled. There'll be dozens of people applying even for jobs like that. I dont mind hard work, believe it or not, but all that bending over for 8 hours a day could seriously fuck your back up. That's my excuse and im sticking to it. :sus:
 
I would pick fruit if I was guaranteed the usual wage for that work but I disagree if it means picking fruit for 40hours a week but then only receiving £71 a week in benefits as payment.
 
It certainly is wrong that a company should be able to get free workers working for them but paid for by the taxpayer.
The employer is the only person to benefit in that situation with a never ending supply of free workers from the jobcentre.While they can carry on getting this free labour it negates the need to create any new jobs so does nothing to lower the unemployment figures.
 
Exactly, if there is a vacancy that needs filling, the job should be advertised and should pay the going rate to who ever gets the job on their own merits. Working for £1.25 an hour or something, how is that meant to lift your self esteem, which was one of the justifications they tried to use for the scheme. Do they really think people are that gullible and stupid. It's quite incredible. :\
 
maxalfie said:
So true that Mdb.If you want to find out anything about benefits and what you are entitled to,you pretty much have to do it all yourself.
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While this has always been true of the DSS (call them what you will) the opposite is, or certainly was, true of housing benefit staff. I used to work in HB and we were specifically told that we were there to maximise the benefit claims of people who may be unaware of their rights. I'd like to think/hope this remains true today.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
While this has always been true of the DSS (call them what you will) the opposite is, or certainly was, true of housing benefit staff. I used to work in HB and we were specifically told that we were there to maximise the benefit claims of people who may be unaware of their rights. I'd like to think/hope this remains true today.
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I haven't had to claim for housing benefit but if that's the case everywhere than that is encouraging to hear SHM. If only the DWP would take that same attitude then it would save a lot of trouble and worry for people.
 
I wonder if it's worth doing an ITcourse in the things lots of recruiters are asking for. They can cost £400 - £2,000 upwards. Definately looking towards the cheaper end of the scale. I'd prefer a college based tutored course, as doing an online course you have to be highly self disciplined and self motivated, which isnt really my strong point, allthough i can do it occassionally.
 
Went to 'sign on' my JSA, I'm mostly sure the guy I got the appt with was either tweaking out or had 10 too many cups of coffee., never seen someone speak and move around as much as he did.
 
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