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not going to jsa appointment
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what would they do if you didnt turn up to your appointment to sign on?
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Edited to say: yeah, like what Kermit said.
You would need to fill in a form to say why you didn't attend your job-seekers' appointment and your reasons would have to be very good otherwise they stop your claim as I found out. I came out of hospital and wasn't well and it was the day after new year's day that I had to be there and I called up to say I couldn't come as I was very unwell and the medication I was on was causing me to feel very disorientated.
They said that that was fine but had to go in the next day. I went in to sign on and I was given a form and to explain why I had couldn't make it to sign on the day I was meant to. If I didn't fill in the form then my claim would have been suspended and would have had to have made a whole new claim again. It is appalling being on jsa and it is not because I want to be and they do make you feel like you are doing it on purpose even though you aren't at all.
I want to finish off my University studies to become a teacher or to work in the civil services but I won't ever do the jobs I have done since I was 16 and earn just enough to pay my rent with again. I am now 33 and if I take another job doing work well below my abilities then this will knock my self-esteem right down and also because it would be very hard to climb back up a ladder you are so far down.
As for you if you are younger than me, my advice is to do any job going and even if it is just to get by for now, train to do other stuff in the meantime and to get yourself of benefits as soon as you can as they will eventually force you into something you don't want to do. I am still looking but there are very few jobs out there that are complimentary to my skills and abilities though am trying very hard.
I was on Jobseeker's allowance 2 yrs ago, simply because I had not been offered a single job, or for the complete lack of jobs at that time.
You can't pick and choose on JSA, it's get a job when you're offered one. Pretty simple. You're just taking the piss otherwise.
Far better that then swinging from one totally unsuitable job to the next forever more.
I am in full agreement there.
bollocks
But isn't it different refusing jobs because you can't be bothered and refusing jobs because you physically can't do them?
You mean you'd be alright doing a job that involves lifting even if you always need help?
What are you on about? I didn't write that. Try again.
Just like you wouldn't expect someone to do a job they weren't mentally capable of and that would do their mental/emotional health no good.
I'm glad someone gets what I'm on about.
Which is what I've been trying to say all along but Blagsta thinsk that's wrong.
No, I haven't said anything of the sort.
Exactamundo.