JSA for contractors - money in Ltd account.

[original PM]

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I half expect to have to pay my £210 JSA back. I can't see how I was entitled to it by any logic.

Tch you are such an amateur - back in the day when I was a recruitment consultant and so spent a lot of time in job centres (a really rather large amount of time was spent in Skelmersdale Job Centre).

And what you need to do is come in with a really $hitty attitude be rude, abusive and threatening and say the words

"EEEEEEE were de money dat I've eeeeeeaaaaaaaarneed" in a really crap scouser accent.

I always used to love the way they used the word earned when they meant the free money I get for being a lazy scrounger!!

[SpontaneousOrder]

People who have presumably had an education and still can't be arsed to properly use punctuation, should be humiliated in public as much as possible.

In that case I feel compelled to point out your less obviously problematic, but still very questionable use of commas here.

[speling bee]

In that case I feel compelled to point out your less obviously problematic, but still very questionable use of commas here.

There is only one comma, but well done for joining in!

[Bacchus]

Call me old fashioned but

I disagree. People who have presumably had an education and still can't be arsed to properly use punctuation, should be humiliated in public as much as possible.

[speling bee]

Call me old fashioned but

Split infinitives are acceptable.

[MPwannadecentincome]

Certain posters who will remain nameless for now seem to lay themselves off between contracts and claim JSA. We may have our own views on this, but we are assured it is all legal and above and that the contractors are entirely open with Dole Office staff.

I am wondering: do these contractors show the Dole Office staff how much money is in the Ltd account?

I'm not intending to do this myself, but am simply curious.

Yes - there is an additional form to fill in when you say you are a Ltd Co director and they asked for copies of bank statements and want to know if any invoices have as yet been unpaid.

[MPwannadecentincome]

Perhaps you shouldn't classify those who claim JSA as contractors - rather just disguised employees....

easy to say if you are not running out of money.

[MPwannadecentincome]

For contribution based, you don't need to. For income based (which I tried to claim last year), they wanted company accounts, profit and loss, etc. So much of a PITA that I didn't bother in the end (and they gave me contribution based JSA for reasons I don't understand).

Even for contribution based I had to give that - I had not been trading for long so didn't have P&L accounts.

[MPwannadecentincome]

But I thoiught that to claim JSA you had to prove you had been laid off and not sacked/left the job of your own accord.

So surely in order to claim JSA you need to stop being an employee of your LTD?

Absolutley no idea what the score is if you are a director of your LTD...

There is a category on the claim for "temporarily laid off"

[MPwannadecentincome]

but if there is a clear pattern of being "employed" by your company whilst in contract, and "unemployed" when a contract comes to an end, arent you showing yourself to be a disguised employee of the client?

if the same client each time then possibly yes, if different clients then disguised employee of which one?