Can i claim job seekers allowance?
You can, in exceptional circumstances, claim Jobseeker’s Allowance as a 16 year old. In order to receive Jobseeker’s Allowance when you are 16, you must either qualify for contribution based Jobseeker’s Allowance (impossible, as you won’t have paid enough, if any National Insurance Contributions in the last two full tax years), or claim under the provision that you cannot be supporte dby any other means. The main ways a 16 or 17 year old claims Jobseeker’s Allowance are as follows: 1) Estranged from parents, not in education, training, or work, and not living with anyone who can support; 2) Member of a couple responsible for a child. In this case, the 16 year old’s partner would be claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance. In normal circumstances, the partner would claim an exemption from having to look for work, and only one member of the couple would need to be “signing on”. However, under eighteens aren’t allowed to claim an exemption, so the 16 year old (despite having a child!) would be req
