Job Centre Plus

Having recently graduated and been left with nothing but a part time casual job, I decided that it might be of some use to me to try to claim Jobseeker's Allowance as it may help me to find a job. Wrong! This review will focus on my experience of tryiong to claim Jobseeker's and find a job using their service. I found the whole system to be an absolute joke. My first contact was a half hour phone interview, where they took all of my details of income and working pattern. This was fine - the person on the other end of the phone was pleasant and polite. However, from this point on I had nothing but problems with the service. The next appointment I could get was ...  Read the complete review

Introduction The Job Centre is suppose to be help given to those looking for work or on benefits. The centre has job points with new jobs put on a daily basis and has over hundreds of people coming in daily. They have about 20 new jobs daily at my local not much but a lot of people still come. You can use the phones in the centre to apply for work saving you money from not ringing from your phone. If you claim benefits they can give you some money every two weeks. It was not much help in my case they were given me just 101.50 when I was on this two months ago. You had to sign on and be treated like a kid of their staff. The experience I ...  Read the complete review

I am 20 years old, and married. Yes I know young...but married none the less. I moved from Lancaster to Warrington in June 2008 to be with my now husband, who has a full time job here. I went from been a full time pupil in high school, to been a full time student at college for 3 years doing my A Levels, the only days off I had were Saturday and Sundays, and as I live right out in the middle of nowhere, where the bus cost £2 each way into the town centre, and were only every two hours (I don't drive either), I found it very hard to have a part time job which paid enough to make it worth while spending £4 a day on the bus, and which hours worked around the ...  Read the complete review

Job Centre Plus can assist us all in different ways. The main common things are the benefits, schemes and also the centre it self to apply for work.Job Centre offers payments to those looking for work and also those who need income support. Local job centre are also kind and make sure that you can claim each benefit which you are entitled to. Since using the service of Job Centre I did once get put on a new deal scheme 18-24. I thought it was awful as all they did was send you to a place full of computers. The only thing you do then is apply for work or chat to other people. This scheme is called New Deal which is a stupid scheme which should be ...  Read the complete review