Anyone signed on the dole while benched?

[Mart001]

[QUOTE=Ardesco;767547]

...why should my taxes go towards you when you obviously don't really need benefits at the moment ...
QUOTE]

Its not his taxes your just recuporating your own, but why wait until all your savings are down? ok so you dont need benefit at the moment but dont draw on your savings put your savings aside for an emergency (car, flood,... accident) and claim what your entitled to for now.

[Ravello]

Dont blame the player. Blame the game.

Are you 12?

[Cyberman]

Someone who has paid tax and NI for 35 years is entitled to something, they just have to meet the criteria (the same way that the poles in your example do). These criteria don't include employment by and directorship of, a company that doesn't happen to have any clients at the moment.

If your company is dormant it is effectively dead and you are not an active director, and if you have a P45, you are redundant, and thus you are entitled to claim.

[expat]

QUOTE=Ardesco

...why should my taxes go towards you when you obviously don't really need benefits at the moment ...
QUOTE

Its not his taxes your just recuperating your own, .

Oh dear. If everybody gets back all the money they have paid in taxes, how does that work then? What is left to help those in need?

[Rookie]

Are you 12?

Whats that got to do with it? Are you a prat?

[Ardesco]

Its not his taxes your just recuporating your own, but why wait until all your savings are down? ok so you dont need benefit at the moment but dont draw on your savings put your savings aside for an emergency (car, flood,... accident) and claim what your entitled to for now.

The point is that if you have a stack of savings you don't need benefits. What would you lot be saying if Sir Alan Sugar, or Richard Branson decided to sack themselves and claim benefits???

[FSM with Cheddar]

<tantrum>
This is ridiculous. You lot are behaving like employees of your last clientCo.

One minute you are complaining about IR35, "I'm a proper company honest", then when things get bad you want the benefits of an employee.

Do you think the director of a "proper" company should sign on between sales? NO
They should be doing all they can to maximise the profits of the company.

</tantrum>

[expat]

Someone who has paid tax and NI for 35 years is entitled to something, they just have to meet the criteria (the same way that the poles in your example do). These criteria don't include employment by and directorship of, a company that doesn't happen to have any clients at the moment.

Yes they do. If you're employed then you can't get the dole. If you're not employed while your employer is between clients, then either you or your company is a con. Finding the next client is part of the job, it's one of the things that you are employed for.

And someone who has paid tax and NI for 35 years is entitled to something: the protection of the welfare state. Same as everybody else.

[Rookie]

Think the OP should have phrased the question "How can I.....?" instead of "Should I.......?"

[Ravello]

If your company is dormant it is effectively dead and you are not an active director, and if you have a P45, you are redundant, and thus you are entitled to claim.

The OP's company is not dormant, nor has he been issued a P45. Taking these steps with the sole purpose of claiming benefits should be seen for what it is; cheating the system.