Was: New forum posting rules Now:PC explains JSA

[psychocandy]

That was the problem. Knowing the rules around claiming PC broke them or at best hit very lucky that the assessor skipped a section or two....

Not again. It was all above board...

Of course, some of you would like to think it was all done fraudulently then you'd have something to huff and puff about but sorry to disappoint you....

[Forgotmylogin]

Ah if I'd been removed then this would have been a fair point.

I wish I'd taken a screen shot and I've forgotten exactly what it said but basically it was calling me a benefit scrounging scumbag.

Not appropriate behaviour. Its like changing your mates background image in windows to display a huge cock.

Ah. So it was NAT then.

[psychocandy]

Well, if it's so wrong you'd better PM admin and have him remove this page before CUK gets in trouble.

Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) – overview for contractors :: Contractor UK

I guess you are also willing to go on record as saying that the firm that wrote that piece are promoting fraud, if you're so sure of yourself?

Nice one. But then some posters are not so keen on letting the facts get in the way of a good bout of throwing their weight around.

[psychocandy]

If any user posted on the forum suffering financial hardship, I would remind them that they can claim it - in fact I have done so - see here - bizarrely the OP has copied my reply into his original post which is a bit weird!

Thats personal decision whether to claim or not or deem whether you are worthy of claiming. Totally up to you. We're all going to disagree on this.

My PERSONAL OPINION is if I pay tax and its legal, I can claim it. Others may disagree.

[psychocandy]

I said questionable. You initially had over the saving limit, in dividends, of 16K allowed to claim, however, you used this to pay off your total credit card bill. This then allowed you to qualify for Income Based JSA, as you no longer had savings.

If I'm wrong about this then I apologise

I choose to spend some of my savings yes whilst still employed. You might not agree with this but thats the way it works.

Obviously, you cant bail out the account when you're claiming. But this is the law as it stands. Your financial situation is determined on the day that you begin the claim. Rightly or wrongly is a matter for debate.

Not intending to labour the point but so is a lot of things that us contractors do. But the law is the law.

Would suggest that its impossible and impractical to track down someones spending BEFORE they even claimed. How would you do that? How far back would you go?

You surely can't dictate to people that they better not spend any money just in case they find themselves out of work shortly.

[psychocandy]

No. I'm going to suggest you find what PC wrote about his claiming and check the approach he used and the questions he seemingly was not asked against that article.

I find its best to come prepared when dealing with fools....

It was years ago. I cant remember exactly what they asked. At the time though, I did clarify a few things - I asked to speak to a manager (which they foiund strange) to check things.

Reason was I didnt want to claim then have to pay it back months later.

[psychocandy]

Ah, the mythology of PC's JSA claims. In my memory he had over 16k in the business account, wasn't asked about it and failed to declare it. But who knows what the truth is? And does it really matter??

Nope. All dividends were paid out from the company before I became jobless. All that was in the company account was VAT and CT money (and not over £16K).

[Bee]

A little bit of me wants PC to come back on this thread. Even though his posts only consisted of 'This message is hidden because psychocandy is on your ignore list.' they at least made sense and were infinitely more interesting than Bee's

Drivel

[psychocandy]

This. Let's not get in to the details of the claim again. Let's get back to the original topic of PC being a bed-wetting lickspittle.

am I off ignore now?

[Old Greg]

Nope. All dividends were paid out from the company before I became jobless. All that was in the company account was VAT and CT money (and not over £16K).

Can you prove that?