To push ds into claiming

This it’s utter bollocks there are SO MANY summer jobs for students

He needs to get a job - any job but yes he can claim UC. Only from the official term end date though as they’ll take his Student income into account until then.

UC is job seekers....

Can't he get a bar job where his accommodation is?
Agency work in a warehouse?
Call centre work?

I agree it’s not lazy, it’s likely the only time he will get to do it. I just disagree with his mum trying to push him onto benefits to fund it.

If he is living in his uni accommodation till August why is your ex's council tax changing now?

FWIW we funded our dcs till the end of June of their final year so they could have a bit of down time after they'd finished uni. One then got a job, one lived on student overdraft for a few months!

People? Or him?

@Lacky301 why isn't he getting any casual job then to tide him over,?

No there was no point as I had a job lined up. I just applied for a job with a start date that meant I had a break first. Funded by my boyfriend at the time ( still together 25 years later). Having a short break after studying for years doesn’t mean you’re lazy is the point I was making.

I'm confused to why he is waiting for his results. For what a grad job to land in his lap? You can generally work out what your degree classification is likely to be by breaking down the units and weighting. I can't imagine he's gone through most of third year without a clue.

He found working hard whilst studying? Was he on placements or something? There is no reason for a student to not work whilst at university. There is so much time outside of lectures, not to mention the long holidays.

Sorry OP you've enabled him and now he has no sense of urgency to get a job because he's never had to because mum and dad could easily afford to keep his lifestyle at university. You can't really now say you are now feeling the strain but letting your son dither. He has to have an ultimatum of finding a job within two weeks or sign on.

He sounds work shy, getting universal credit and his dad off his back, will not incentivise him to get a job.

Out of interest, did you claim benefits to pay for it?

I work in fintech. Our interns start next month and our grad programme, which kicks off in September, is about 95% full. If your kiddo hasn't been applying to these programmes, then he's missed the boat.

Oh, and for what it's worth, I had three PT jobs -one as a cleaner, one as a tour guide and one in retail - while doing my MSc. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it, but it was doable.

Tell your little prince to get off his arse and get a job.

Are you new to this site? There was only one way this thread was going to go 🤣. Personally, I wouldn’t push my DCs into hospitality jobs - there’s a reason people just walk into those jobs and it isn’t a good one. Fingers crossed he finds something soon. I had a couple of months off when I finished uni many years ago. I’ve worked full time since and am not lazy, work shy or any of those things. I just wanted a short break before starting 40 odd years of work.

That is a lifestyle choice. Unless you have parents supporting financially, you get a job for income. You sort out your career while working!

His lack of any work experience looks terrible to employers!

He might find his official last date at uni is later than his last exam, which will make claiming any benefit impossible really. Are you sure he is expected to pass his course OP? I would be suspicious that he may think he won't, hence not applying for jobs earlier. Most seem to apply for graduate jobs November - April time, his reasoning doesn't make sense. I would be pushing him to make contact with his university's career department, his CV for example should have been sorted out long ago, along with interview techniques etc. In the meantime you need to stop facilitating him by giving him money. Universal credit should not even be on his or your radar to be honest.

So he can get off his lazy arse and work for it

Absolutely make him claim it

University is over. In our home if you are not in full-time education then you are expected to be in full-time employment (and part-time employment is not acceptable). You work and you pay a contribution to the household.

Those are the choices we have given.

It doesn't matter what you do but you are working and contributing to your living costs and society.

The default, at 21 and beyond, is that it is time to support yourself, even while waiting for the "proper job". So I would say it is time to reduce/then stop the financial support and make it clear a job, any job, needs to be found immediately.

So mow he will be around. What is his degree in? How come he has not applied for grad scheme?

It’s not new, it was like that when I graduated 14 years ago and it had been around long before that. We had a well established careers fair for the grad schemes at my uni every year and everyone applied for the grad schemes from the autumn before graduating and throughout the year. I think it was called milk round before my time at uni.

This is really embarrassing for him. And you OP, if it's true.

If he's finished a degree then he's a grown up and needs to start acting like one. If you are in anyway presentable and articulate you can walk into a temp office job in most big cities, if he's above bar work. There are loads of agencies - I did it all the way through uni and had a full summer of reception jobs every year, paid better than retail or bar work and still allowed for a social life. Mind you I didn't have parents footing the bill for my lifestyle so I did have a bit more motivation...

Or as others suggest - retail, bar work, supermarkets. It's coming into summer and lots of people will be taking on temp staff.

The fact that you and he would even consider claiming benefits before doing any of these things, while he 'sorts his career' is truly embarrassing. I wouldn't be holding my breath for that career being sorted either by the way, if this is an indication of his work ethic.

Wow op!! You have had enough of paying, so all of us should instead??! He is perfectly able to work- just doesn't want to- and you think the benefit system is for lazy ex students to do not a lot.
Nobody on here is benefit bashing- just lazy entitled layabout bashing.
And, yes it is easy to get a job as a stop gap. My teens have both worked in hospitality from 15 and the now 17 yr old has 2 jobs alongside college so that she can run her own car.