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Claiming job seekers
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Hi,
I never thought I would need to ask this but I guess there is a first time for everything.
I am jobless at the moment and a family member mentioned claiming job seekers allowance. I'm visiting family at the moment and moving to Reading with a friend very shortly where I will visit the job centre- however I wondered if anyone else had done this once leaving uni? Do we have to be out for so long?
Thanks, Steve.
I never thought I would need to ask this but I guess there is a first time for everything.
I am jobless at the moment and a family member mentioned claiming job seekers allowance. I'm visiting family at the moment and moving to Reading with a friend very shortly where I will visit the job centre- however I wondered if anyone else had done this once leaving uni? Do we have to be out for so long?
Thanks, Steve.
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You can claim it once you've officially left Uni, but not before.
After three months they were going to make me take an "aptitude test" to ensure that I wasn't entirely braindead, but I got a job a week before that deadline
Not sure if that's just a Wales thing, because I know people who have been on JSA for longer than three months and not had to do that.