Coming off benifits

[Painting345]

I am currently a single parent and claim income support, housing benefit, child tax credit, child benefit.
My child starts school in the 1st week of September so I will notify the job centre when she has, but then I start University about 2 weeks later. Will they put me on Job seekers in the 2 weeks only, or keep me on it while I am at University? How does it work? I've claimed for parents allowance and my student loan and been granted both for the full amount but what are they likely to change me to or nothing?
Also will they ask for my bank statements in all of this? Thanks

What makes you think you'll be moved from income support to JSA, you can't be a job seeker if you are a full time student.

Are you moving to a different local authority area to be at uni? How old are your children?

A certain amount of your student income will be taken into consideration. And you may well be better off going on to Universal Credit.

The move from IS to JSA (or ESA etc) is prompted by child turning 5 (I think IS ends the first Monday after youngest child turns 5).
As a general rule you wouldn't continue to get IS as a student unless you satisfy some other eligibility criteria (the student criteria for IS is for those estranged from parents / in full time non-advanced education / certain students from abroad etc).
Also, as you have a student loan this would be counted as income / your living expenses. You may qualify for housing benefit, depending on student loan. Child benefit wouldn't be affected. Child tax credits may be affected (increase?) or replaced by child element if you fall into a full service area.

Hi LG123
There will be a two week period that my daughter will have started school and I will not yet have started uni, so I assumed they would likely change me to a different benefit for the 2 weeks

Hi 8dayweek,
I was also told that it was the child's 5th birthday or when they start school, whichever is sooner so it will be in September.

I think I worked out I get around £900 from student loan, but my rent is £600 a month so I have no idea how I'm going to afford it all 😞

Painting345, if you are in a full service UC area you live onto that and then your claimantant commitment will just change once at uni.

They will take into consideration most of your student income. But you will get some support, depending on what your maximum UC award is before deductions of student income. This is factors such as where you live, how old your children are, disabilities etc. If you pm me I'm happy to help with working out what you'd get :) xx

LG123, how do I go about PM'ing you? x

@Painting345 The three dots below one of my posts :) x