My husband signs on every 2 weeks. He receives no JSA. Of either kind. He hasn't enough Class I payments because he was self employed for about 40 years and employed for just 1. He won't qualify for income based JSA because I usually work and we receive rental income from a house. When I was made redundant I filled in forms for us to be assessed on our incomes. But I returned to work and stopped this before it went anywhere. Tbh I was happy to be out of the system before I was even in it.
We have now taken hubbies personal pension to keep us going. So defo no way we will get anything for him now. Which brings me back to him signing on every 2 weeks. Why does he do it? So he can get free prescriptions for blood pressure (!) and dental care. And so the government can pay his Class I contribs for him even tho he qualifies for full state pension on contribs already in, and is unlikely to be able to get any other bens for the forseable future.
However, he has made some nice friends at the Jobcentre. They think the system is ridiculous as well!
JSA should give everyone some money, albeit small. As Dot says, keeping wheels costs, as does the car park.