What you must tell us

You must tell us immediately if your circumstances change, ie. If you (or your partner):

• Do any paid, or unpaid work or voluntary work
• Get a job or become self employed
• Start living with someone, get married, form a civil partnership, dissolve a civil partnership or separate
• Get a place on a training programme or start full or partime education
• Get a personal pension or a pension from a previous employer
• Change your address or are going away from home, even if it is for a day
• Are involved in a trade dispute
• Change your account for your JSA payments
• Are ill or have to take care of someone or cannot take a job for any other reasons
• Have a child that leaves school
• Have someone come to live in your house or someone who was living in your house leave
• Change the amount of savings

If the person you are claiming JSA for gets a job or goes into hospital or a nursing home, you must contact us immediately

If JSA is overpaid on a joint claim as a result of a failure by you, or your partner, to tell us about any change of circumstances, we will recover that overpaid amount from either of you.

Help - If you are unsure whether your change of circumstances may affect the payment of your JSA, please contact Jobcentre Plus.