interview with job centre for benefits...any tips?
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interview with job centre for benefits...any tips?
Hi
So I received my call yesterday to go over a huge amount of questions about claiming benefits, job seekers allowance etc....and obviously I couldn't lie about that I still have a house in the US....however, I did tell a bit of a fib...and said it's up for sale! When I have my person to person interview, I think I'm going to say it's off the market.....would hate to get caught out....any way I get around it though, because I'm sure once they know I have a mortgage and a house that is being rented out I won't be able to get any help temporary while I find a job etc.... It will be sold eventually but probably not this year.
Anyone know what else I could say to help my case?
thanks!!
So I received my call yesterday to go over a huge amount of questions about claiming benefits, job seekers allowance etc....and obviously I couldn't lie about that I still have a house in the US....however, I did tell a bit of a fib...and said it's up for sale! When I have my person to person interview, I think I'm going to say it's off the market.....would hate to get caught out....any way I get around it though, because I'm sure once they know I have a mortgage and a house that is being rented out I won't be able to get any help temporary while I find a job etc.... It will be sold eventually but probably not this year.
Anyone know what else I could say to help my case?
thanks!!
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Re: interview with job centre for benefits...any tips?
Hi
So I received my call yesterday to go over a huge amount of questions about claiming benefits, job seekers allowance etc....and obviously I couldn't lie about that I still have a house in the US....however, I did tell a bit of a fib...and said it's up for sale! When I have my person to person interview, I think I'm going to say it's off the market.....would hate to get caught out....any way I get around it though, because I'm sure once they know I have a mortgage and a house that is being rented out I won't be able to get any help temporary while I find a job etc.... It will be sold eventually but probably not this year.
Anyone know what else I could say to help my case?
thanks!!
So I received my call yesterday to go over a huge amount of questions about claiming benefits, job seekers allowance etc....and obviously I couldn't lie about that I still have a house in the US....however, I did tell a bit of a fib...and said it's up for sale! When I have my person to person interview, I think I'm going to say it's off the market.....would hate to get caught out....any way I get around it though, because I'm sure once they know I have a mortgage and a house that is being rented out I won't be able to get any help temporary while I find a job etc.... It will be sold eventually but probably not this year.
Anyone know what else I could say to help my case?
thanks!!
I don't know how it works but someone else might know more. Worth a try though.
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Re: interview with job centre for benefits...any tips?
Hi
So I received my call yesterday to go over a huge amount of questions about claiming benefits, job seekers allowance etc....and obviously I couldn't lie about that I still have a house in the US....however, I did tell a bit of a fib...and said it's up for sale! When I have my person to person interview, I think I'm going to say it's off the market.....would hate to get caught out....any way I get around it though, because I'm sure once they know I have a mortgage and a house that is being rented out I won't be able to get any help temporary while I find a job etc.... It will be sold eventually but probably not this year.
Anyone know what else I could say to help my case?
thanks!!
So I received my call yesterday to go over a huge amount of questions about claiming benefits, job seekers allowance etc....and obviously I couldn't lie about that I still have a house in the US....however, I did tell a bit of a fib...and said it's up for sale! When I have my person to person interview, I think I'm going to say it's off the market.....would hate to get caught out....any way I get around it though, because I'm sure once they know I have a mortgage and a house that is being rented out I won't be able to get any help temporary while I find a job etc.... It will be sold eventually but probably not this year.
Anyone know what else I could say to help my case?
thanks!!
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Re: interview with job centre for benefits...any tips?
If you can show that the house is negatively geared ie, rent doesn't meet the outgoings, then that might prove you're not gaining any financial income or benefit from renting out your house.
I don't know how it works but someone else might know more. Worth a try though.
I don't know how it works but someone else might know more. Worth a try though.
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Re: interview with job centre for benefits...any tips?
Hi
So I received my call yesterday to go over a huge amount of questions about claiming benefits, job seekers allowance etc....and obviously I couldn't lie about that I still have a house in the US....however, I did tell a bit of a fib...and said it's up for sale! When I have my person to person interview, I think I'm going to say it's off the market.....would hate to get caught out....any way I get around it though, because I'm sure once they know I have a mortgage and a house that is being rented out I won't be able to get any help temporary while I find a job etc.... It will be sold eventually but probably not this year.
Anyone know what else I could say to help my case?
thanks!!
So I received my call yesterday to go over a huge amount of questions about claiming benefits, job seekers allowance etc....and obviously I couldn't lie about that I still have a house in the US....however, I did tell a bit of a fib...and said it's up for sale! When I have my person to person interview, I think I'm going to say it's off the market.....would hate to get caught out....any way I get around it though, because I'm sure once they know I have a mortgage and a house that is being rented out I won't be able to get any help temporary while I find a job etc.... It will be sold eventually but probably not this year.
Anyone know what else I could say to help my case?
thanks!!
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Re: interview with job centre for benefits...any tips?
but in order to become a british mp, you first need to donate to a charity and then find a way to claim benefits for that expense, otherwise you dont stand a chance...
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Re: interview with job centre for benefits...any tips?
Hi
So I received my call yesterday to go over a huge amount of questions about claiming benefits, job seekers allowance etc....and obviously I couldn't lie about that I still have a house in the US....however, I did tell a bit of a fib...and said it's up for sale! When I have my person to person interview, I think I'm going to say it's off the market.....would hate to get caught out....any way I get around it though, because I'm sure once they know I have a mortgage and a house that is being rented out I won't be able to get any help temporary while I find a job etc.... It will be sold eventually but probably not this year.
Anyone know what else I could say to help my case?
thanks!!
So I received my call yesterday to go over a huge amount of questions about claiming benefits, job seekers allowance etc....and obviously I couldn't lie about that I still have a house in the US....however, I did tell a bit of a fib...and said it's up for sale! When I have my person to person interview, I think I'm going to say it's off the market.....would hate to get caught out....any way I get around it though, because I'm sure once they know I have a mortgage and a house that is being rented out I won't be able to get any help temporary while I find a job etc.... It will be sold eventually but probably not this year.
Anyone know what else I could say to help my case?
thanks!!
Why you think the UK tax payer should have to tide you over is beyond me.
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Re: interview with job centre for benefits...any tips?
Areyou literally coming over to the UK penniless? If you have money in the bank (over a certain amount that is not very high) or a spouse working then you cannot get benefits as you have not made contributions.
Why you think the UK tax payer should have to tide you over is beyond me.
Why you think the UK tax payer should have to tide you over is beyond me.
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Re: interview with job centre for benefits...any tips?
I work effing bloody hard in my job and I'm very picky as to who the people are who benefit from my hard earned and grudgingly paid taxes and that rings true for more and more British taxpayers now especially in the light of what has happened here in the UK recently with that load of scrounging, double dealing muppets laughingly called "respectable, upstanding Members of Parliament at Westminster. Some of these geezers are apparently set to be interviewed by the police over all their expenses claims.
At least the OP here is British which is something, but that doesn't automatically be considered in any way a God given right to make welfare claims with holes, however small and seemingly "insignificant", in submitted details of current personal circumstances.
When our hard earned money goes to people who are not even British, not even from any Commonwealth country, and who have not contributed one half penny piece to "the system" in any way at all then that makes us even more incensed.
For peace of mind I would always reckon total honesty and an up-front procedure is always the vest policy in the end.
I can tell you that they really do appear to have tightened up the rules here in the UK in recent years - or so we have been led to believe, and from the perceived increase in cases of fraudulent benefits claims and subsequenrt penalties being reported in our local (and sometimes national) newspapers then maybe they are right.
Just my take on this one as a concerned UK taxpayer. Cheers for now.
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Re: interview with job centre for benefits...any tips?
Tell them the very bare minimum, about anything they ask.
Let them work it out themselves.
You were staying with a friend, weren't you !
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Re: interview with job centre for benefits...any tips?
Yes, but they do ask these questions. So if you (OP) want to follow the advice of the above person, be aware that not revealing information is as much an offence as providing in correct information.
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Re: interview with job centre for benefits...any tips?
Somehow or other the British Department of Work and Pensions always roots out any kind of fraudulent claim sooner or later....how they actually do so I'm not well enough informed to say and it's just as well that I'm not...they just have ways and means of finding out all the ins and outs and whys and wherefores of social welfare claims, and rightly so.
Last edited by formula; Jun 28th 2009 at 3:06 pm.
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Re: interview with job centre for benefits...any tips?
The government only have to suspect they are committing fraud, even without any proof, and then the Data Protection Act goes out of the window for them and anyone connected to them. The rules on the Data Protection Act are quite clear in that they don't protect those that are suspected of fraud or money laundering.
Last edited by formula; Jun 28th 2009 at 3:32 pm.