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Your first assessment period starts on 1 September. Changes in your circumstances during an assessment period may change your payment. Example of payment dates in Scotland You get your first payment on 14 December. This payment is for a full month. You get paid on the 14th and 29th of each month after that. Print entire guide. Help with managing your money. Cookie settings. Accept all cookies. Reject all cookies. You can use the Benefit of Work Estimator to find out how starting work could affect your income.
If you are self-employed, you may be entitled to JA, depending on your income from your business. You can find out more in our document about self-employment and unemployment. Self-employed farmers on a low income can apply for Farm Assist. If you are a professional artist on JA, you can be exempt from l abour market activation for the first year that you are out of work. This means that you do not have to show that you are looking for work.
It allows professional artists who are getting JA to focus on their artistic work. The means test looks at your income, savings, investments and property, but not your own home. However, some income is not be taken into account in the means test. A limitation applies, which means that if you are claiming JA and your partner is getting certain social welfare payments, the total amount paid to you as a couple cannot be more than the maximum amount for one person including any dependants on one social welfare payment.
Find out more in our document about how living with your parents is assessed in the means test. You may not be entitled to JA in certain situations.
This is known as being disqualified. You could be disqualified from getting JA for up to 9 weeks if you:. Read more in our document about sanctions that may apply if you do not fulfil the conditions of your jobseeker's payment.
If you have just left school, you cannot get Jobseeker's Allowance. To get Jobseeker's Allowance you must be at least 18 and be out of school for 3 months. The 3 month disqualification rule does not apply to Youthreach participants.
If you are a third-level student studying full-time, you cannot claim the dole JA or JB. You cannot sign on outside term-time, such as during the summer holidays unless you are a mature student.
However, once you have finished college permanently you can claim a jobseeker's payment if you cannot find work. This is also the case if you leave college without finishing your course. The DSP has a fast-tracking system for people who sign off JA to take up work for a short period of up to 12 weeks or to go on a short training course lasting up to 12 weeks. You must inform your Intreo Centre or local Social Welfare branch office before you start work or training.
Your Rent Supplement can also be suspended for up to 12 weeks. If you were getting an age-related reduced rate of JA and you take part in a course of education, training or an employment support scheme the appropriate personal rate of payment applicable to that course or scheme will apply as long as you are aged under When you complete the course you will go back to your previous age-related JA rate. Any means you have are deducted from this rate. Your payment can be reduced if you do not attend meetings when the DSP asks you to.
It can also be reduced if you do not take part in an appropriate employment support scheme, work experience or training.
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