unemployed soon =(

[WhiteBears]

i, plus many others at my workplace will be unemployed as from 2nd october, so im gonna queue up outside job centre to sign on!

i have applied at least 10 jobs a week for the past few months and no joy, i am either over qualified or not enough experience. i cant win. im so depressed, ive given up looking, im just gonna claim JSA and housing benefits for a few months! ='(

[ummmm]

Do you rent?

[Jumbuck]

I'm on JSA - you reckon they're just gonna let you do beggar all for a few months? you might be in for a disappointment.

[WhiteBears]

yup im renting, umm

jumbuck, how long have u been on jsa? my housemate has been on it for a few months and also claiming housing benefits. i dont want to go down this route but isnt it what im entitled to? it is kinda my money in the end!

[WhiteBears]

there are 235,000 unemployed in yorkshire and humberside!

[ummmm]

Yea...you'll get HB. You want to get a claim in asap as it can take a month or so to come through.

[ummmm]

WhiteBears...try and get to know your advisor. If any decent jobs come in they will have you at the top of their list.

[sara3]

hey WB :o)

of course you can sign on for JSA but you are required to look for work, and they will want to know exactly what you're applying for and when. it's not for taking a break in your job search. I wish you luck though, they may be able to help you find a job x

[Jumbuck]

6 weeks so far but it seems to depend who you get to report to at the Job Centre as to how happy there are with your efforts during the previous couple of weeks jobseeking. The one I saw 2 weeks ago was a right female dog (I'm assuming that the 5 letter word that I would have used might get reported). And someone (a stranger) at a jobseekers centre that I attend did say the other week that his money had been stopped 3 times this year because it was decided that he hadn't made a sufficient effort.

[welshlibranr]

Yes! It's so difficult, my husband has never been out of work in 35 years before, he was made redundant in May, and still no joy after numerous application forms and CVs submitted!! Soul destroying!!

[Jumbuck]

p.s. no problems with housing benefit so far.

[dothawkes31]

I was made redundant on 8th august, though paid up untilthe 19th, but the jobcentre said i could claim from the 9th cos my place of work had gone, even though i was paid up to the 19th, they said that pay was monies owing. so i registered online on sunday 9th, the jobcentre rang me at home on the tuesday and took the details, then gave me an appointment at the jobcentre to actually register. my official finish date was still the 19th august and on 20th august i accepted a job to start 1st october, better job too, and i can claim jsa right up til i start. I applied for 20 jobs and had 4 interviews and am still getting calls to interviews, but i accepted this job cos it sounds ideal. i have an interview on the 29th for a shoe shop managers job and i am going to go to it just out of curiosity.
there are loads of jobs oput there in retail, the key is to register with dedicated job sites that cater for your occupation, i am enrolled with 4 retail sites and that is why i have had such success.
To be honest though, i have loved being at home these last few weeks, hiow i ever found time to work fukl time i just don't know! keep doping what you are doing, use the internet job sites as much as possible, that's where you'll find a job cos that's where the firms advertise, the job centre search thing is rubbish. good luck.

[WhiteBears]

thanks umm. i will seek advice asap.

sara :O) like i said i have been trying for the past few months ... infact i have been trying since Jan. i can give them prove, i have kept letters, emails of all rejections! =( im really depressed.

[sara3]

don't be depressed. it's not your fault and there are so many in the same boat.

they won't be interested in what you've done prior to your claim, but it is a requirement to be "actively seeking work" to get your JSA.

you need to make a claim asap. do it tomorrow morning :O)

[dothawkes31]

you can do it online tonight! it only takes a while and they'll ring u in a day or so to sort it, then you'll not lose another day, get it done before midnight

[dothawkes31]

oh sorry you can't actually register til you have no job to go to. if there is a large number of job losses at one site, the jobcentre told me they would be providing a dedicated support team.

[WhiteBears]

dot, you are so lucky!!

*sighs* as an agency staff i dont even get redundacy pay (although i have been with the same place for three years!) -- i have saved all my holiday hours (90hrs) so i could essentially take october off. but it would help to 'sign on' and b a dolely for a while!!

[dothawkes31]

you have to sign on to get your NI credits.

[Jumbuck]

WhiteBears - they are only really interested in what your doing whilst claiming JSA, what you did before is good experience but no more than that. It's not necessarily as bad as that makes it sound so don't get too depressed. You'll probably be ok.

[WhiteBears]

thanks dot.
will i need to provide prove that im out of work?

[Nannyjill]

Do as Dot says at least on line it will be done.

Our Job Centre is hilarous,I was hobbling on 2 crutches after having 2 tumours removed from my spine and having chemo and radium. The job centre advised me (as I told them I couldn't sit at a computer all day)I should get a job as a kitchen porter. This came from the screening department which I later found out to be a computer programme where all the info is fed in and the jobs available are printed out. When I complained that I could hardly stand up the girl said that's what it says.

I got the manager to come in and he said you may have to change your occupation from kitchen porter as I don't think you could manage to do that now. I said your staff are telling me I shoudl me a kitchen porter, have you read my form what kitchen porter do you know who earns that kind of money.

I found a job through a site and to be honest I work as and when I want/feel like. (Now I've found out I have enough contributions for a pension)

There are jobs out there but you have to know where to look and I guess it's different in every industry.

If anyone saw that tv prog about the Shaw Trust all the staff on there seemed to be interested in was getting a bonus if they got so many people back to work.They didn't seem that bothered whether the job was suitable or some cases whether it was permanent.