JSA suspended and no idea why

Morning, I kinda knew you weren't drawing any income and fully aware of how it works when not only engaging fully but developing a self employment option, which I commend you for 😉

My initial thought and its a guess, this suspension could be because your now technically self employed by the decision to register as such despite no income being drawn, in a sense, and as such it may be a case the department are now looking at you differently from a JSA eligibility point of view, I'm aware self employed have entitlements to SW supports but don't know enough about them and it may be the case you'll have to move to a different support payment. What I'm confused by is the department are fully aware of your intentions and your clearly not in receipt of income yet.

This all said, it does not excuse what's happened, particularly your obvious engagement and indeed efforts to explore self employment opportunities.

I'm confident something will be sorted it's how long it takes is the problem. Hopefully there'll be a quick resolution for you. Again make sure you explore an emergency payment to tie you over until this is resolved.

It's either you forgot to sign on or the switch between JSA and the Back To Work Enterprise Allowance is happening and you will be paid Tuesday

It's really only a guess re BTWEA and it may not be at the root cause of what's happened, your payment has been suspended not Closed. Honestly it's really only guess work trying to determine the cause of this issue, you've done the right thing , touching base with your case officer but would definitely contact local intero centre in the AM , you'll at least get some sense of what the issue may be.

Did you miss signing on last Tuesday?

Unless 'keeping them updated on my work to build a small business' has been flagged as you working.

What requirements did you not meet for BTWEA? They are pretty easy-going with it because it gets you off the live register and who knows what kinda business will work.

I was trying to be diplomatic 😁

OP the whole system is flawed imo.

My husband doesn't qualify for JSA or JSB so basically 40 years working counts for nothing.

And yes he is looking for work. Cv's sent, agencies met etc but noone wants an almost 60 year old now!

Can I ask , slightly off thread topic but would he not have been entitled to JSB initially, did he work in Ireland, JSB based on contributions and not means tested 🤔 even if self employed here he'd be entitled to something, obviously if he worked abroad, slightly more complicated.

if youre doing a course there could be a transitional period, suspended in error maybe?

any of your cirumstances changed? go on a holiday? =

I did wonder about the registration with Revenue as being a possible reason but again OP was fully engaged and obviously getting advice from business set up professionals. I understand there is sharing of Data with Revenue but primarily on any income being reported basis , there has been no income and the "Must be looking for work rule" is more to check claimants are making applications etc, I get OP is moving from PAYE to self employed.

Whilst technically OP is moving towards Self employment, DSP and the case manager are fully aware of this and its seems illogical to have a payment suspended given all the info , OP has provided, OP should have been advised if there was going to be a change in payment type or suspension.

Sorry to here that , I'm assuming he got redundancy bur even if he did that's irrelevant.

I'm sure you've checked this but are you aware assessment for JSB is done for contributions made 2 years previous, so if he claimed for JSB n 2022 , they look at 2020 contributions. Also for every week he was on PUP at contribution was credited/paid . It gets a little technical but he should request a copy of a statement of contributions in 2020 or if he as a mywelfare account, its available in there.

I know he may have been through this but really should be entitled to something, even If means tested.

O I absolutely agree and I saw alot of this issue you mention come up for self employed during the pandemic etc , I'm just surprised at the lack of notification re suspension of payment and I've seen many examples of really poor communication re cutting off people's payments, obviously some decisions justifiable and we don't know the full story in every case but as many cases of payments being stopped inexplicably.

I don't believe this has anything do with current situation.

Great , at least you have a sense of what the issue is and hopefully the problem can be rectified quickly 😏

Fantastic, there's always a solution to every problem (eventually) 😏