Possible to claim new style JSA?

[courtg9000]

Problem is he's more likely to get it incorrectly as the 'droid' cannot handle complexity. He will, fraudulently, claim he's not working, tick the boxes the droid wants to hear and the droid will rubber stamp it. He won't furnish them with the true situation so they won't need to deal with the complexity.

Yeah the 'droid' can't handle complexity. But they do have very overworked people who can, not enough people, but they do seem to get round to everyone! The thing is they do find out about this sort of shizzle eventually. When they do they tend to come down hard as well. You do not get on the bad side of anything to do with the DWP. Its actually worse than winding up HMRC!
Whats the forum standard for forum posters who end up in jail? Do we laugh? Lecture them on not bending over to pick up the soap?

[Snooky]

Well, this is our glorious Labour government who are obsessed with making it rain on anyone that isn't grafting their socks off, it's really them you should be questioning. Why are they offering non means tested JSA?

Quite possibly because they've done the maths and decided it's cheaper and more efficient to support those who genuinely need it and are actively trying to find work, and accept that there will be some unavoidable losses to scroungers, than it is to run the whole costly and time consuming rigmarole for every single applicant. Contrary to what the Daily Mail et al might want us to be believe, most people don't want to be scraping by on the bare minimum while the rest of society looks down on them, they want to be doing their bit and prospering.

That's just my guess, though.

[avonleigh]

Agree with Northernladuk. You can't apply for JSA if you have a business. If you want to claim JSA then close down your business. You can't have it both ways. If you are struggling then look at taking a mortgage payment holiday for one thing, if you have a mortgage of course. I did this for 6 months during Covid as wasn't working.