uk when it comes to claiming social benifits.?

Question

should your employment history and what you have contributed in your passed be taken into consideration when you find you have to make a claim.

what I mean is say your in your sixties wearing out a little and find yourself out of work should you be treated the same as someone say 30 years of age its just a question.

squidgy and Daniel i bow to you knowledge jsa iv`e just found out what it is.

fog horn i`m like you iv`e worked 41years still working now for a pittance my pension went for a **** at least someone knows where i`m coming from
politicians won`t listen cos they now live in happy land I collected money and food for miners during the stuggle these are worse than thacher i think.

Answer 1

According to the goverment your NI contributions are for the following, NHS,State Pension,Benefits should you become unemployed......

As your are of pension age then they will probably say thats all your entitled to,which is wrong as you have become unemployed you should also be entitled to JSA...
The goverment have double standards when it comes to these matters the system is totally Fcuked up...
Unemployment benefit for a single man is £43-00 per week, a pittance when you count up NI contributions over the years, this combined with yopur state pension which is only fair that you should receive both would probably amount to about £150-00 a week or less not sure of pension amount....
The goverment needs to give us the british public answers to why we are so poorly paid on benefits......

A few years ago I was on income support to make my wages up as I only worked 10 hours I have 2 kids my partner died and left me a works pension this combined with my wage entitled me to £39 a week income support for me and 2 kids,they have us all ways...

Now I have 2 jobs have to pay for child care, I do receive Tax Credits which are based on your yearly earnings, so if I do over time which puts my earnings for the year up my Tax Credits will be reduced next year, I dont agree with this as you are not always guarenteed overtime so you go a year with less money. No win situation......

I a the moment have been in touch with the PM and some Msp's about them discriminating against me and my kids as we dont get a widows pension as me and my partner where not legally married and I get nothing for the kids in this respect either, so is benefitting from his years of NI contributions.

The other person who answered and says his wife/partner cant get any benefits as she is sick and he works have been misinformed if she is on long term sick she is entitled to DLA wehte he works or not, the people that work in social security offices are trained not tyo tell you of any benefits that you dont enquire about it was a an employee of theirs that told me this and it is true, they will only tell you if you ask so make a point of looking into every benefit available to you and ask about it and dont accept no for the answer.... Good luck

You c an also e-mail the PM and ministers for social security personally be persistent let them know your concerns....

Answer 2

There are various distinctive communities of individuals lined by way of your word "foreign places nationals". at the beginning, there are the voters of alternative ecu international places, (plus the different handful of ecu international places that have a mutual settlement with the ecu). Their concern is they have the comparable rights in this united states of america as British voters do - and vice versa so a Briton working in yet another ecu united states of america has the comparable rights as close by voters of that united states of america. lots of the rights to reward have a waiting time on them, so that they could desire to have been right here for twelve months, and to have been paying NI to declare JSA. Then there are the individuals from different international places who've been allowed to settle right here - the two as immigrants or as refugees or asylum seekers. while they have a enable to stay right here, they are dealt with as are close by born voters - and after 5 years they could stick to for British citizenship themselves. all people else has no perfect to any reward, different than for individuals who've utilized for asylum and are waiting for a call to be made, who get lodging and an extremely small benefit charge (yet as they are not allowed to artwork the alternative may well be to enable them to starve to death). If foreigners qualify for JSA they'll could desire to sign up interior the comparable way as all people else. different reward do no longer require you to sign up many times besides.

Answer 3

What benifit? am puzzled as JSA is income or contributions based

Answer 4

Well, I've worked for 33 years, paid income tax, National Insurance and all the stealth taxes. My partner has been ill for
over a year and I can get no benefits whatsoever for her, nor can she get any for herself, on the basis than my income is
sufficient to keep both her and me. I am paid £13000 per year and I get £4000 per year from a pension. (I.e. £17000pa - the national average wage is £24000pa).

I own my own home (on a mortgage) - I get no housing benefit. I have no children, so I get no tax credits for kids, or familiy allowance. I know people who do not work, live in local authority housing that is paid for by the authorities, have substantial families and who abuse the law. This both disgusts and appalls me.

When the comprehensive system of welfare (the Welfare State) was set up in Britain after WW2, it existed as a safety net to provide decent accommodation for people on low wages, and to provide the basis for continued life for people who became ill. It was not envisaged as a cash-cow that could be milked from cradle to grave by the innately idle. Excessive Human Rights legislation, plus the disaster of the Thatcher years, in which the British economic infrastructure was forced to shed its industrial base in a crude yah-boo revenge on the Trades Unions for their efforts in improving the lot of the British worker, have led to a sump of people dispossed of their traditional work, and discouraged from working by an unbalanced welfare system .

The Welfare system used to operate on the basis of earnings-related benefits, to wit, if you earned more than your basic wage by dint of overtime, one would get benefits enhanced because of your additional NHI contributions. Thatcher rapidly disposed of this, and it is something we need to go back to.

Essentially, I feel that you get nowt back until you have contributed something. When you leave school, you take a job, whether you like it or not. You continue to live with your parents until you have enough money to rent a property (this will mean that Government provides sufficient housing for this purpose, a responsibility that they have shirked for over 2 decades). If you are sufficiently irresponsible to get pregnant, then you will be housed, but all you will get will be vouchers for basic foodstuffs and household goods. Your furniture will be supplied, but will probably be of deal, and manufactured in prisons) Dignity will become a right that you earn.

For every year that you work, for every responsible act that you do, you will get credits. For every irresponsible act, for every court appearance, for every call of the police to your abode because of anti-social behaviour, then you will be debited, and when your debits exceed your credits, you will be down to vouchers or food parcels. Tough justice? Real justice.

Answer 5

that would depend on what benifit you mean something like incapacity or disability then no as you can t help what age you fall ill and jsa is already based on this