How To Claim Job Seekers Allowance

Hello, my name is Lee Healey, and I am the manager and director of Income Max, the entitlement experts. We help people to make sense of and understand the benefits of tax credits system. Today, we are going to tell you lots about the benefits of tax credits that are available.

Here is a quick guide to claiming job seekers allowance. Now, job seekers allowance is a benefit for people who are actively seeking work and looking to take on a full time job. Now to claim job seekers allowance, you got three ways to basically claim it.

First of all, you can make a telephone call to the Department of Work and Pensions, now the number to call is 0800-055-6688 so you can kick start your claim off that way. Alternatively, you can visit the direct.gov website and actually claim online.

The direct.gov website has links to a job seekers allowance claim form that you can actually fill in online and send through online; you can also download a form from the direct.gov web site which you can print out and fill out as well.

So once again, you basically have three options to claim a job seekers allowance, you can call the Department of Work and Pension telephone line or you can use the direct.gov website so you can download the form once you actually fill the form out online. Now, do not forget job seekers allowance actually has two types, there is a contribution based job seekers allowance and there is also an income based job seekers allowance.

Now, obviously a contribution based job seekers allowance is based on your national insurance contributions, you can claim that as an individual with means tested or income based job seekers allowance that takes into account you and your partner, also takes into account your income and resources. So do not forget there are two types of job seekers allowance but generally you can just make a claim for job seekers allowance and then work out which you are entitled to. In the current economic climate, we are having lots and lots of inquires about job seekers allowance and this might be because perhaps you have lost your job or you have been made redundant, so job seekers allowance is pretty much the first port of call for working age people when you are looking to get back into work and take on a full time job.

So that is pretty much a guide to claiming job seekers allowance. .