Persons who are registered as full-time students are disqualified from claiming a jobseeker’s payment and this disqualification includes the summer months except where the final year has been completed.
A person who has completed a course of study and who satisfies all the conditions for payment, which include being available for full-time work and actively looking for that level of employment, may qualify for a payment. Other conditionality also applies, for example, a required level of contributions for jobseeker’s benefit or a means assessment in the case of jobseeker’s allowance.
Where a jobseeker claim is in payment and the person is not available for work on a particular day due, for instance, to sitting an exam, the jobseeker’s payment is not made in respect of that day.