Just Lost My Job

[JONNO_CELEBS]

I know Manker, they asked me what trade I was in, I said Buiilding and they told me their records show the building trade to be flourishing, I asked where these records where taken, he said London
I'm in a town on the east coast, slight difference
But yeah, thats basically it, altho I got sacked (wrongly) from the coucil a few years ago and got no help, I was told I would have to apply for Hardship benefit which would mean I would have to leave my house and go in a B&B
This would be because I don't have a child
My mate has just had a kid, he works the same place I do, he gets an extra £45 per week from the WFTC, his girl get £190 per week for looking after her child and the kid get £28 per week and it's only 10 weeks old
And they wonder why there's no insentive to work
Bit like that couple who don't work but have 5 kids and get £37,000 per year from the gov , Like the dad said, why the hell do I want to work when we get that

Jonno B)

[DanB]

Originally posted by manker+5 August 2004 - 10:32--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (manker @ 5 August 2004 - 10:32)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-JONNO_CELEBS@5 August 2004 - 10:22
Edit@Robert......

Don&#39;t worry in the UK the government pays you benefit if you&#39;re out of work and all your living expenses.

That is such a false statement, this depends so much on your circumstances, if you have a kid you&#39;re laughing, if you&#39;re a single male living alone and have been self employed you&#39;re fucked, trust me, I know.

Key statement there being self-employed. If you&#39;ve demonstrated once that you can earn money without an employer then quite rightly the benefit agency is less likely to give you money to sustain yourself because you&#39;ve demonstrated that you can do it yourself.

There is a BIG difference between the treatment wrt benefit of self employed people who can&#39;t get work and recently laid off ex-employees. Trust me, I know




BTW I&#39;m not saying that it is fair nor that it was right that you couldnt get help, I&#39;m just saying that&#39;s the way it is [/b][/quote]
Where do need to go? Just to the Job Centre?


Last time I was in a pickle like this I had just got out of nick and they weren&#39;t to helpful to me then, signed me up for the JSA and that was that Nothing about Housing Benefit etc

[JONNO_CELEBS]

You phone the JC up and ask them to send you forms for JSA , Housing benefit and council tax benifit
They will send you forms and make you an appointment

If you lost your job because you took too much time off thru illness which is not faked and you have doctors records you may also be able to appeal and get some compensation
Call the CAB about that

Jonno B)

[DanB]

I have just spent the last 30 mins or so reading the CAB website. I could have got Council Tax benefit for the last 2 years Damn them they just sent me a summons too

I am going to go to the CAB office in sutton on Monday morning, I am hoping they can talk me through all of it, the benefits and alsu the unfair dismissal thing. Unlucklily for them I do have the Doc&#39;s records to back it up

[JONNO_CELEBS]

Yeah, unfortunately the council will back date everything except council tax

Good luck tho Dan

Take em to the fucken cleaners

Jonno B)

[DanB]

Have to try and make some good from the situation



Cheers for the help

[JONNO_CELEBS]

There is no situation in which you cannot find good
Even the darkest most painful situation, if you look hard enough there will be some form of good

Ooo don&#39;t punch the council officer They don&#39;t like that

Jonno B)

[DanB]

That sounds like the voice of experience talking

[JONNO_CELEBS]

I never punched the guy , he made that up, I just kinda shoved him a little

Jonno B)

[lynx]

Originally posted by JONNO_CELEBS@5 August 2004 - 13:14
I never punched the guy , he made that up, I just kinda shoved him a little

Jonno B)

You should have punched him, far more satisfying.

Manker is wrong about the self-employed thing. You don&#39;t have to have made a living at being self-employed to have problems getting any benefits, you just have to be registered as self-employed.

I was advised (by the Job Centre) to register as self-employed when looking for short term computer contract work. Unfortunately there wasn&#39;t much around at the time, so I then applied for benefits. I was now classed as self-employed, so no Job Seekers Allowance. Still, I should be able to get income benefit.

Well not exactly. I had lent my brother some money to buy a car (why pay finance companies when you can keep the interest in the family). The amount left was about £7500 and he was paying back £250 per month, which works out at £57.53 per week. If the amount outstanding had been less than £6000 I could have got income benefit as it doesn&#39;t count as income, since it is a capital repayment.

As it was, the amount I was receiving from my brother was deducted from any income benefits I might have received, which would have been about £53 per week. As anyone can see, that leaves a negative figure so no Income Benefit either. And without Income Benefit you can&#39;t get all sorts of other benefits either, such as help with Mortgage interest, dental treatment, eye tests, prescriptions.

When you&#39;ve been paying in to the system for 30 years it is particularly annoying when you can&#39;t get any help when you need it.