Job Centre Plus - Benefits and Entitlements
Benefits and Entitlement Information
(Keywords:
income support, disability living allowance, )
Do I Qualify For Benefit?
Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) is the main benefit for people
out of work, or currently unemployed. When you make a new or repeat claim for
JSA, the JobCentre Plus can arrange for an advisor to help you search for a job.
What Benefits may I Quality For?
This is the foremost question at the front of everyone's minds, even those
in employment. This is because even if you are in full time employment, you
still may qualify to receive certain benefits or entitlements. For those who are
unemployed, there most certainly is some kind of benefit you are entitled to.
Finding out which benefits you are entitled to is usually the hardest part, as
you have to match certain criteria's for certain benefits. The best advice we
can give you, is to have a look around our website at the available benefits,
then see which ones have criteria's that you can match.
Working Age Benefits
There are, or will be times when you could want or need
financial support. Do not be afraid to ask, as most people in the United Kingdom
are fully entitled to such financial support.
If you are of working age of 16-65, Male or Female then support is on-hand instantly with some recognizable benefits.
Before applying for any benefits, you must ask yourself the following questions...
Able to work and/or currently looking for
work?
Expecting a baby?
Bringing up children?
Caring for someone?
Caring for children with special needs?
Suffering from an industrial related disease?
Coming from or going abroad?
Are you Disabled?
Going back to work...
Living on a low income?
Separated or divorced/Civil Partnership
dissolved?
Currently Ill/Sick?
Studying or leaving school?
Suffering from a dust related disease?
Widowed?
Some or All of these questions may apply to yourself when applying for financial support via Social Security Benefits. You must be able to honestly answer all questions in order to receive the correct benefits.
