Income support and other benefits

[princessmumy]

Hi,
I'm 19, 24 weeks pregnant and unemployed. I currently get universal credit. I was wondering if anyone got income support and could tell me how much I would be getting? So I know if it's worth it to make the switch on benefits or not

HOpefully someone can come along soon who knows the answer. I worked until I went into labour and I even got a job whilst pregnant. Have you thought about getting a job?

If you're on UC you can't usually go back to old benefits.

If you're on UC you'll stay on it can't change back to IC/tax credits separately

Yeah I have been trying to get a job, I've never had one before so haven't got any experience on my cv and not got much in way of qualifications. I don't really have much luck with that type of thing. Thank you for your help girls

I know it may sound stupid, but in the mean time if you are physically able to, take up volunteering somewhere once a week and still claim the benefits you need to. Once you're able to work you can put this experience down on your CV.

My teenager has got a job with no experience. You could not easily do his job - deliveroo although I cycled in pregnancy but I expect it's not recommended these days !

You can't pick and choose which type of system you want to be on.

You will stay in UC

It's confusing because people used to be swappedfrom JSA to IS in late pregnancy.

You get about the same amount of money with pregnant but once you've had the baby it goes up abit, while on income support you don't need to job search or anything like that until the baby is 1, hope this helps

There's plenty of jobs out there to be had with no experience, but you'll need the right attitude and a bit of determination.

Set a good example to your baby and show them the way to succeed is by hard work and ambition.

Oh FFS there is nobody who will employ a 7 months pregnant teenager with no experience so stop it already with the suggestions she gets a job!

OP you don't have a choice as to which benefits system you go onto. You will stay on UC but with different conditionality in place until your baby is old enough for you to start job seeking. In the meantime volunteering is a great idea to give you some experience and maybe even a foot in the door :)

The girls gone half way through her pregnancy, why would she wanna get a job this late in? & also why would she wanna miss everything her baby does for a little bit of money? I don't work & I've got 2 babies, when they go nursery ill get a job but I did not have kids to not see them grow up& palm them off with strangers, everyone has there own opinion but I'm not that sort of mum & my be the op doesn't want to be either, she asked a question didn't need everyone telling her to get a job she only young.

Deliveroo is a ridiculous suggestion even if OP is a keen cyclist. It's not a 'job' it's a very shoddy freelance arrangement. Deliveroo are currently embroiled in a high profile ET for bogus self employment practices.

UC has the potential to be a clusterfuck for the simplest of claims. Add in 'self employment' and it's almost guaranteed to lead to major problems.

I agree volunteering is a good option but be careful if you're in the 'all work related requirements' conditionality group. People have been sanctioned for this because they are therefore not available for work / not seeking work for the required number of hours.

When you get to 28 weeks, you should be moved to 'no work related requirements' so it might be easier to wait til then.

What's your housing situation?

Yeah once your on UC you stay on it. You'll get your standard living allowance for yourself and then when baby comes they will add on child element. You'll also get child benefit of £20 a week. It's all on the DWP website. Best of luck with the rest of your pregnancy

Yes user the OP asked a question but if she (or you) expect to gain employment later you will both have to ensure you get qualifications and experience in some capacity sooner rather than later.

Yes, as pp have said, once on Universal Credit you can't swap to another benefit but your conditionality is amended.

Qualifications are completely different to getting a job, when people are telling a young girl to get a job while she's that far gone in her pregnancy I thinks wrong when all she done was ask about something because she obviously doesn't know

I think you've failed to understand my point user but never mind.

My son is mkaing quite a bit of money at Deliveroo and he is not a burden on the tax payer. The other has just started at Ocado. There are definitely jobs around for the unqualified. Also many of us who are supporting people like this in idleness even though we worked right though our pregnancies had to "palm them off" to strangers so we could keep benefits claimants in the style to which they are accustomed. The result though is that my chidlren aer the winners and the children of the claimants tend to be the losers. So the main person you do a favour to by getting back into full time work is your children and yourself.

What I'm saying is obviously she op is gone half way through her pregnancy, I personally don't think there's any point in getting a job atm, no one will hire someone that is that far in their pregnancy & I just don't agree with having babies & not seeing them grow up, it's not that easy to get a job either, before I was pregnant i applied for loads of jobs & done work experience but didn't get any further, just because some people have jobs they think it's easy to get one,& it's not & i wouldn't let my children be like me growing up so I won't not class my children as losers I want them to do well & I will make sure they do the best they can, I don't agree with you saying people's children's are going to be the losers because their mother or even their father doesn't have a job, my children's dad is a lorry driver so it's not like my children are not going to know what working is, can't judge people either when you don't know the situation.

But user you judged all working mothers out there in one fell swoop. You don't sound too bright to be honest so you probably didn't realise.

But user you judged all working mothers out there in one fell swoop. You don't sound too bright to be honest so you probably didn't realise.

No I have an opinion, I've only left my children once since they've both been born that's nearly 2 years now, & that was only for my 21st obviously some people find it easier than others, but I couldn't leave my children all day every day, but people that work think it's easy & we just get money handed to us that don't work but that's not the case at all, we still have bills to pay, the money I get goes on my children I don't ever buy myself anything at all, yeah my children's dad works but we don't get nothing off him, I just don't think it's right everyone telling the girl to get a job she was only asking a question

And no I'm not the smartest person like I said I messed about in schools went to about 5 different schools in the end haven't got no qualifications or nothing but I'm definitely not thick either

No I have an opinion, I've only left my children once since they've both been born that's nearly 2 years now, & that was only for my 21st obviously some people find it easier than others, but I couldn't leave my children all day every day, but people that work think it's easy & we just get money handed to us that don't work but that's not the case at all, we still have bills to pay, the money I get goes on my children I don't ever buy myself anything at all, yeah my children's dad works but we don't get nothing off him, I just don't think it's right everyone telling the girl to get a job she was only asking a question

Good grief. I've just become a little bit more Tory.

Like I said everyone has their own opinion don't they, people that work actually don't understand, just cos you've got a job you think it's easy to get one,& you don't even know the girls situation.