Reply to: any support if LTD cant support you?

[NotAllThere]

...if you have a familar ...

What? A black cat or something?

[Mart001]

Job Seekers Allowance.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTax...rk/DG_10018757

£60.50 per week.

You'll get less if you have savings over £6,000. If you have savings over £16,000 you probably won't qualify.

Thanks, managed to get through to the Job office and its as your've just said... but she said it would be contribution based becuase of the director of LTD, and then asked about savings at 16,000, so not sure how it works. if you have a familar then you can claim income support (if partner works less than 25hrs, i dont get the less 25hrs you would think the calc dependent on income...)


cheers

[MPwannadecentincome]

Job Seekers Allowance.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTax...rk/DG_10018757

£60.50 per week.

You'll get less if you have savings over £6,000. If you have savings over £16,000 you probably won't qualify.

You have to read the website a little more carefully.

Contribution-based Jobseeker's Allowance is £60.50 a week and is regardless of savings (and I know 'cos I had to claim after being made redundant before I started contracting).

Income based is different and that is where the paragraph relating to the savings is relevant.

[NotAllThere]

I stand corrected.

It's always struck me as pretty crap that if you're feckless, the government throw money at you.

[Pickle2]

£60.50 per week.

You'll get less if you have savings over £6,000. If you have savings over £16,000 you probably won't qualify.

Wow, thats sooo unfair. Especially after all that NI I have paid whilst contracting.

[DimPrawn]

Job Seekers Allowance.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTax...rk/DG_10018757

£60.50 per week.

You'll get less if you have savings over £6,000. If you have savings over £16,000 you probably won't qualify.

[NotAllThere]

AFAIK contributions JSA doesn't look at your savings. But if you have savings and you're trying to claim a benefit that does take those into account, then you really are thieving git. hth

[Sockpuppet]

Yes i think you have to be made redundant/laid off for JSA but I wonderd if there was some kind of income support for directors if the company was making below a set amount.

eek -- FFS!

If your a bank then its called a government bailout.

[d000hg]

Yep there was indeed. She claimed housing and child benefit IIRC. She was trying to get herself off state subsidies by peddling some dubious furniture wasn't she?

She was doing it entirely legally... as Peter/Theo said, the whole point of the benefits was to allow people to get into a job or business, NOT just support them indefinitely, which was exactly what she was doing...

[xoggoth]

I got it a few years back no probs.

[Ravello]

wasn't there some bint on Dragons Den who was a director but claimed benefits???

Yep there was indeed. She claimed housing and child benefit IIRC. She was trying to get herself off state subsidies by peddling some dubious furniture wasn't she?

[techno]

wasn't there some bint on Dragons Den who was a director but claimed benefits???

[Mart001]

Please don't end up in jail.

well they pushed it!

[suityou01]

Oh, cobblers.

Having spent an extended time on the bench and been through the process and actually received benefits, I started writing a lengthy response based on my experiences.

Then you wrote:

I'm not telling you how to ponce my tax to protect your savings, you lying, scrounging, unprofessional git.

<Kicks of slippers, curls up with laptop on sofa>

BrowneIssue, KILL!

[chris79]

my hidden money has been taxed already. its hidden as in its not in my account so wont be calculated if i was to make a claim...

Please don't end up in jail.