Jobseekers Allowance when Resigned from Job

[buffymad]

If you resign from your job (not for any namby pampy reason either before anyone judges!!) I know you're not liable to get JA for up to 6 weeks. The person concerned is actively seeking work and will hopefully have a job after 6 weeks, but my question is, if after the 6 weeks (assuming he was still unemployed) he went to try and claim JA, would he get money straight away as he hasnt tried to claim beforehand? Or would they start the 6 weeks from the date he shows his face there rather than taking the time he's already waited into account?

Hope that makes sense!!

[ubasses]

Below is from drect Gov site

Your benefits if you resign

If you have voluntarily quit without good reason, your Jobcentre Plus can delay your Jobseeker's Allowance. If you are claiming constructive dismissal, make sure they know. If you can't claim Jobseeker's Allowance, you may still be able to claim a hardship payment, which is a reduced amount of Jobseeker's Allowance.

Benefits and financial support (money, tax and benefits section)

[buffymad]

I've read that before but it doesn't really answer my question unfortunately!

[ubasses]

If he goes to job centre after 6 weeks that is when allowance will start they will not backdate to the day he resigns. Only if he qualifies for the hardship payment would he get anything before that date and if that is the case he needs to go in straight away.

[bednobs]

i wonder what they consider as " good reason"

[Mamyalynne]

If he has quit due to what he sees as a valid reason, he must sign on straight away - give as much detail as possible of his reasons. If the reasons are deemed to be valid (ie Constructive dismissal) he will get paid.

[THECORBYLOON]

JSA can be sanctioned (stopped) for up to twenty-six weeks, not six weeks. If a sanction is imposed, the period between the employment ending and the claim being made is deducted. If a sanction of thirteen weeks is imposed but the claimant had waited ten weeks before claiming, the net sanction is three weeks.

[buffymad]

I don't think he expected them to backdate anything. Just seemed easier to wait 6 weeks before going in rather than having to answer lots of questions about why he left etc.

The Corby Loon - didn't know they could make you wait 26 weeks - that's crazy!! What do they deem bad enough for someone to wait that long?!

[THECORBYLOON]

Say for example an employee wakens one monday morning and decides he's had enough just fancies a change. He hands in his notice thinking he'd easily find a new job but makes no efforts to find one before he left, chances are he'd be sanctioned for twenty-six weeks. If the employee has a problem wi the way things are done at work but doesn't bring those concerns to his boss' attention and makes little or no effort to find alternative employment, the sanction would be on the high side. The thing is what was SO pressing that someone felt they had no other choice but to resign rater than wait until they'd new employment?

[bushbaby_de]

We had a long thread about this a few weeks ago http://www.theanswerb.../Question1052671.html

[buffymad]

Trouble is in this instance ... the bosses were the problem!! Lots of things going on for quite some time (to quite a few people). Lots of people don't agree with how things are done there (and it involves animals - and not in a good way). If you try to talk to the management they seem to do whatever they can to make your life hard and to make you leave anyway (I kid you not). It all came to a head one day when something in particular happened and then enough was enough. Some other people have actually left since then coz its so bad!

Like I say, he doesn't actually WANT to have to claim JA and is proactively looking for another job all the time - but if the worst came to the worst then he'd have to go and ask about that (which is why I'm asking on his behalf).

[THECORBYLOON]

He may as well make a claim as he'll get the JSA until a decision is made. The Jobcentre will send a form asking him why he left and then it gets sent to a Decision Maker. The Decision Maker (DM) may or may not ask for further info so it's best to go into as much detail as possible. If there is a sanction, it always starts from a future date so it won't be case of paying back any JSA already paid.