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Benefits and part time work (16 hours)?

Ok, so Im on job seekers allowance, and i thought you could work 16 hours a week without it being stopped, I told the jobcentre I had 2 days work before hand, and then when i go to sign, they say I have to stop this claim because i worked 16 hours, your only allowed up to 15 and 3 quarter hours, they never said this before. Now I have to go through the whole process of claiming again. Are they right?

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Yes it is correct. Any work of 16 hours or more stops your claim straight away. You need to ring 0800 055 6688 and tell them that you need to make a Rapid Reclaim. You will be given an appointment at the Jobcentre but it will not take any where as long as it did the first time. Also, claim back to the day after you finished the two days work. To be honest, you would have been very unlikely to have been paid for the week in which you worked because you would have earned more than the JSA would have been for that week. You only get a £5 disregard, so if you earned more than £69.30, no JSA would be paid

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• I had loads of problems with JSA but they prob are right. I worked 12 hours a week and was claiming JSA and to make my money up they paid me £1 a week. I give up in the end its too much messing.