FOAK: Unemployment benefit

It didn't help at all, actually, and most of it is totally irrelevant
to TOGs question.

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If he did that, he wouldn't be able to claim anything for 6 months
unless there was a specific [1] reason for it. I don't think 'I wanted
to go to France on my bike' comes into the category, somehow.

[1] Along the lines of medical, ie through stress, and even that would
have to be proven before he would receive any benefit.

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Eh?

 

Anyone who has paid into the system should get it out when needed, so I
agree with you, but some people are proud and think they are better for
not claiming.

 

Apparently they can get a bit arsy if you don't make a claim (even if
you don't want the money) as they like to know what has happened to the
NI contributions.

A friend of mine got a nasty letter once in relation to this, she was
'too proud' to claim but the state wanted to know what had happened to
her NI contributions. She informed them that she was unemployed at
that point in time and didn't want to draw benefits. [1] Her answer
provided no end of problems as they wanted her to prove what had
happened to her contributions since x date to x date.

Of course, as she was still living in the house she was born in it
wasn't too hard to track her down. Bear, on the other hand, seems to
move quite regularly.

[1] After all, it just wouldn't become someone who lived in
Blundellsands to actually go to the BA in Waterloo to make a claim.
What *would* the neighbours think.

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Dunno what that means, but the social society (sic) told me during the
84 strike, that my whole life would be ruined by not paying NI
contributions. Pigs.

 

NI is National Insurance, it isn't a 'pot' you put into that you can
then reclaim later on. NI goes into the the state fund (apparently) to
sustain the NHS and similar.

You can claim benefit from the day you leave school, ergo you have
never paid into the 'pot' in your life. For 12 months you can claim
unemployment benefit (UB40), after 12 months you go onto Income Support
which is a lower rate of benefit again.

Depending on your circumstances though, you can still be better off on
IS or UB than getting off your arse and going to work. Being single
and without kids means you may as well go out to work, because the
state isn't interested in keeping you. And besides, you may as well be
in work and helping to subsides the scroungers that have kids and can't
be arsed to get out and look for a job because they are being given
enough in benefits to make getting a job a waste of time.

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Don't NI contributions go into the Pensions pot, too? Ergo, if you
weren't going to pay towards NI either by working or claiming and
having the state contribute on your behalf then you jeapordise your
state pension fund later on.

Ergo, even if you don't want to claim it is best to at least sign on
because all your contributions are on record, whether it was you or the
state that made them on your behalf.

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Just spoken to her downstairs about this, depending on payouts etc
determines if you are entitled. But you still need to go through the
protocols.

Should've spoken to either herself downstairs or FJ, shouldn't you?

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I have a feeling this sort of conversation has gone on in the past wrt
claiming benefits, or even signing on in order to attain the NI
contributions that go towards the State Pension.

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Lesley
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Be very careful there, if they realise within 7 years of providing you
with money you were not entitled to they can claim it back. Works the
same way with ex-employees who have been over-paid, too. Only 2 years
to go before her downstairs can squander her extra pay that she didn't
work for )

Indeed it is. Actually, for the fortnight I was unemployed I didn't
receive a penny, but I couldn't be arsed to chase it up. At least my
NI contributions were up to date though )

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the cont known as Anton G=3Fsen says...

Why has it taken so long? Or is Ferger right?

 

the cont known as says...

<snip>

Do you really know what autistic means or are you reading from a
dictionary again?

 

?

 

I wasn't casting any asparagus, I was simply stating my material
circumstances.

 

Ah. Krusty lists it as a definite.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I might have to see if I can get it retrospectively. Three
months payments into my council tax (by direct debit) is a fair wedge.

 

Too bloody right. I nearly didn't get my JSA last year because it
turned out that my previous employer hadn't been paying my NI
contributions despite deducting them from what little wages I actually
got.

 

Yup, we found that when The Doctor was doing her doctorate. What was
even nicer was finding that she also qualified for the studeny discount
on lift passes in French ski resorts.

 

Bear's have feelings too!

 

So do apostrophes...