How to pay back overpayment?

That is again absolute no excuse for not claiming a benefit you are entitled too. Have you been on JSA before? Yes the people there are absolute *****, they talk to you like ****, they patronise you, they tell you too work for free to "build experience". But guess what, most people don't have an option other than to put up with it, because they need the £60.

What? So if you and your partner were in financial ruin, and he could add almost £200 to your monthly budget too relieve some of the pressure, but he won't because people at the job centre are mean, you wouldn't be annoyed with him?

Why else is he happy to let her sit in the house on TSR earning nothing? Because without her, he probably has nothing else, and doesn't want to rock the boat by telling her to man up and go claim JSA.

If my partner was suffering from mental health problems and the Job Centre situation was making them worse, I would absolutely support him in avoiding that for a while, as long as he was seeking help for the problem. And especially if he was applying for jobs regardless! You really have no idea what her partner thinks about the situation.

I would not be chilled earning £300 a week, rent taking up 2 thirds of my income and a girlfriend sitting at home doing nothing.

Because funnily enough, I had a car and a multitude of other things to pay for. Depression doesn't have to prevent you working, as much as it emotional cripples every other aspect of your life.

Normally plain and terribly mundane tasks like work aren't happy anyway, so going in depressed isn't usually effecting much.

I am not being a dick, you have started supporting her excuses after she dropped her little whiney post last night telling people to leave her alone

I didn't ask why you were getting benefits, I asked why you were getting JSA. You can't have had that bad a case of depression if you were still able to work. If you don't want people to think you know nothing about mental illness then don't spout ridiculous nonsense like the stuff in the post I'm replying to. Having had a bout of mild to moderate depression does not make you the all-knowing mental illness guru. As OP said, all mental illness is not the same.

I knew you were clueless the second you posted 'You have anxiety yeah?' to the OP. You made an assumption that that was the only problem she had, when if you knew anything about anything, you would know that it was likely one small part of a larger problem.

I didn't ask why you were getting benefits, I asked why you were getting JSA. You can't have had that bad a case of depression if you were still able to work. If you don't want people to think you know nothing about mental illness then don't spout ridiculous nonsense like the stuff in the post I'm replying to. Having had a bout of mild to moderate depression does not make you the all-knowing mental illness guru. As OP said, all mental illness is not the same.

I knew you were clueless the second you posted 'You have anxiety yeah?' to the OP. You made an assumption that that was the only problem she had, when if you knew anything about anything, you would know that it was likely one small part of a larger problem.

Taking 50mg of anti depressants (I had to take an adrenaline based pill due to my iron levels and something that my dad has which my have been undiagnosed in me at the time), doesn't necessarily prevent people from working or looking for work. Thats why I was claiming JSA. Because I wanted and needed to work.

Some people have light depression and only see a psychiatrist, yet they take months off work. Others take anti depressants in very large doses, so it's got absolutely nothing to do with the severity of the apparent case.

You knew I was clueless, yet you condemned your own post about "not all mental illness being the same" after saying mine can't have been that serious Bravo genius, trying to tar me with a brush that is already covering you