Confusion with JSA, Intraining and Income Support!

[bethangray]

Hello everyone! I'm just a little bit confused with a few things I mentioned in thee title and was looking for a little bit of advice from anyone who has been in a similar situation

I'm 20 years old (21 years old in August), i'm leaving college in a few weeks, i'm on Jobseekers Allowance, I attend Intraining appointments and I am expecting my first child on the 19th November this year (16 weeks on Tuesday)... I am going to tell the Job Centre that I am pregnant on Monday when I go to sign on. I will not be leaving with my partner when the baby arrives as we'll only have enough money to provide for the baby and not living arrangements (so will continue living with parents), my partner starts university this September and will not be eligble for any benefits so it's all on me.

I have a few questions so I'll make a list (sorry!)
1) Can the Job Centre stop any payments during my pregnancy?
2) Intraining told me that the Job Centre are switching everybody to Income Support as soon as they turn 21, is this true?
3) Will I be able to switch my JSA to Income Support as soon I've left college?
4) Will I have to attend Intraining anymore?
5) And will I have to go to weekly sign ons if I stay on JSA (as this is a new requirement for everyone under 25 at my local Job Centre)?

I know there's a lot of information but please help me if you can!! Thank you very much in advance

 

[aimee-lou]

Not sure about the age related questions you have, but I was on JSA up til recently. Basically you should keep signing on until at least 29 weeks and then your claim can be transferred across to income support for 26 weeks. After that it's back onto JSA.

I'm not very up on the intraining side of things so I'll leave that, but as far as I'm aware you have to keep looking for work until you are 29 weeks/find work.