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Your responsibilities
There are certain things you must do to keep getting Jobseeker’s Allowance.
Here is a summary:
You will no longer receive benefit and your claim for Jobseeker’s Allowance will
end if it is decided that you are not:
available for work; or
G
actively seeking work.
G
If you make a new claim within 13 weeks of such a failure, you may not get paid
benefit for up to 4 weeks. If there has been more than one such failure in the last
52 weeks, you may not be paid benefit for up to 13 weeks.
You will lose your benefit for up to 13 weeks, 26 weeks or 156 weeks (3 years), if
you:
leave a job voluntarily, without good reason
G
lose your job because of misconduct
G
fail to take part in the mandatory work activity programme, without good
G
reason
fail to take on a suitable employment opportunity, without good reason, or
G
refuse or fail to apply for or accept a job which your Coach has notified to you,
G
without good reason.
You will lose your benefit for 4 weeks or 13 weeks, if you:
fail to attend an interview with your Coach, without good reason
G
fail to comply with a Jobseeker’s Direction, without good reason
G
fail to take part in a particular employment programme that you have been
G
referred to, without good reason
do not take the opportunity of a place on an employment programme or
G
training scheme, without good reason
refuse or fail to apply for, or accept, a place on such a programme or scheme
G
notified to you by your Coach, without good reason,
fail to attend or give up a place on such a programme or scheme, without good
G
reason; or
through your own misconduct lose a place on such a programme or scheme.
G
The number of weeks your Jobseeker’s Allowance payments will be stopped for
will depend on how many times you have not met your requirements in the
previous 12 months.
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