Job Seekers Allowance stopped for quitting work

[alibobsy]

Someone who has a sanction applied in these circumstances is deemed under the law (by the dec maker) as making themselves vol. unemployed. You can query the disallowance giving the extra circumstances and it will be looked at again, however he can also apply for "hardship allowance" this is paid at a lower rate than the full rate JSA, but at least is better than nothing. He would need to contact his local Job Centre to do both the above.

Ali x

BTW the JC will have normally sent a form to your exemployer about this and may well have had a response from them giving their side, the DM will look at all evidence supplied re the dec. Mind you if the employers aren't very good they will probably have ignored the form altogether.

[alibobsy]

My understanding is unless a benefit claim is live in payment the government has given strict guidelines as to how long any paper/computer records can be kept. As far as I know the current time for paper docs is only 14 months. Due to the government policy of centralising benefits to save dosh GBU as such no longer exist and alot of older docs are shipped off to remote storage. Did you ever appeal any of these dec. as I vaguely remember hearing that the appeals tribunals keep documents for a lot longer.

You certainly should be able to request copies of anything held in the office or remotely and on the computer system under the data protection act, but you may find most of it has been deleted or destroyed. If they are asking you for evidence of previous claims it may be to give them an idea of where to search for your docs as they could be in numerous locations. Send em copies and keep the originals of course. BTW as far as I know no DWP office ever has or currently does record telephone calls sorry! You could just double check with your office to make sure.

Good luck

ali x