Does Anyone Know About JSA etc?

[poosils]

Am in need of some advice or help please for my daughter. She recently changed jobs and was in receipt of a reasonable income, so she and her partner decided to rent a flat together.

The contract for the lease was signed 2 weeks ago with the move-in date being yesterday. She was then paid off from her new job when the boss decided to give her position to the son of his friend.

She has had to make a claim for JSA whilst she looks for another job and had hoped she would get some help with rent and council tax but because her partner works a 20 hour week on the minimum wage, they have been told they will receive no help whatosever.

Her partner earns about £480 per month and their rent and council tax is £440 per month. That's not counting gas/electricity, food, travel etc. I am worried sick about them.

Can anyone please give any advice? They are both white British citizens aged 22 and have no children.

[phleb]

white british citizens!!! and what difference does that make??

[THECORBYLOON]

littlesteps, walk away from the keyboard...

[China Doll]

Good grief, what has all your nonsense to do with this thread?! Given your apparent IT knowledge I suspect you would know either how to start up your own blog to spout all this on, or even start a thread in technology, rather than highjacking someone elses thread about irrelevant stuff.