After visiting the job centre with my son yesterday I am absolutely fuming.
I am currently on maternity pay @ £136.78 per week.
My elder son (aged 18) has come to live with me after finishing college. His college course finished early. His dad was claiming child benefit for him as he was in college. He has now cancelled this claim.
My 18 year old son is currently looking for employment and has been to 3 interviews in the last three weeks. He put a claim in for JSA whilst he is looking. He has had NO payments and yesterday we were told that he cannot claim until 3rd JUNE. This is because college should not end until May and child beenfit is payable.
I was advised to claim Child Benefit until the end of May (£7.50pw as he is my second child).
I rang tax credits to see if i could claim child tax for him as the answer was NO, as he is not in full time education.
I cant believe there is no help out there, other than £7.50 a week child benefit. It has cost me £12.00 on bus fares recently for him to get to interviews. How on earth am i supposed to feed/clothe him on my measly maternity pay.
I'm sure he'd have got help if he'd av just left school at 16 and gone straight onto job seekers!! It furiates me that he has had two years of college, no apprenticeship at the end and no help to get into work. :mad: :mad: :mad:
I am currently on maternity pay @ £136.78 per week.
My elder son (aged 18) has come to live with me after finishing college. His college course finished early. His dad was claiming child benefit for him as he was in college. He has now cancelled this claim.
My 18 year old son is currently looking for employment and has been to 3 interviews in the last three weeks. He put a claim in for JSA whilst he is looking. He has had NO payments and yesterday we were told that he cannot claim until 3rd JUNE. This is because college should not end until May and child beenfit is payable.
I was advised to claim Child Benefit until the end of May (£7.50pw as he is my second child).
I rang tax credits to see if i could claim child tax for him as the answer was NO, as he is not in full time education.
I cant believe there is no help out there, other than £7.50 a week child benefit. It has cost me £12.00 on bus fares recently for him to get to interviews. How on earth am i supposed to feed/clothe him on my measly maternity pay.
I'm sure he'd have got help if he'd av just left school at 16 and gone straight onto job seekers!! It furiates me that he has had two years of college, no apprenticeship at the end and no help to get into work. :mad: :mad: :mad: