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Entitlement to Income Support

clordy79
clordy79 Posts: 9 Forumite
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I have been having problems at work and my boss is unable to resolve them, i have been off work for a few months with depression and was getting better, i have been back at work approx 6 weeks and am now starting to go back into a decline, i have been with my present employer for 10 years, I am 29, single, with a 3 year old daughter. If I handed my resignation in would i be entitled to Income Support? Strange thing to ask as i am employed by a local authority taking Housing Benefits info... Any advice would be appreciated!!!!
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  • viktory
    viktory Posts: 7,635 Forumite
    clordy79 wrote: »
    I have been having problems at work and my boss is unable to resolve them, i have been off work for a few months with depression and was getting better, i have been back at work approx 6 weeks and am now starting to go back into a decline, i have been with my present employer for 10 years, I am 29, single, with a 3 year old daughter. If I handed my resignation in would i be entitled to Income Support? Strange thing to ask as i am employed by a local authority taking Housing Benefits info... Any advice would be appreciated!!!!

    You'll get a much better response on the benefits board.
  • worldtraveller
    worldtraveller Posts: 14,013 Forumite
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    I'm sorry to hear about your problems with your work/boss. However, it appears that you are employed in the public sector. IMHO you would be crazy to resign because you would lose so many benefits!
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  • Milarky
    Milarky Posts: 6,356 Forumite
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    As a single parent, you would be entitled to Income Support regardless of why you leave work (It's not the same for 'Jobseekers', but you would qualify under a different category)

    As to your motivation and reasons for quitting, I understand you may feel the situation warrants it but if there is a problem at work you should try to resolve those (if only in the attempt) since that sounds like the primary issue.

    as to 'allthingsconsidered2009'; that's about the most inappropriate title you've given yourself - you didn't consider anything in the OP's question
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  • pink-lint_2
    pink-lint_2 Posts: 546 Forumite
    hi you would be best off talking to your doctor to see about incapasity benefit or sickness benefit, and you could also try entitledto.com or co.uk

    not to sure really, just take each day as it comes.

    depression is a awful illness.

    take no notice of the ignorant poster (allthings considered2009) and do whats best for you and your child.
  • Kimberley
    Kimberley Posts: 14,871 Forumite
    I think that if you make yourself intentially jobless then you will not be entitled to anything for 6 months. I may be wrong though.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    worldtraveller wrote: »
    I'm sorry to hear about your problems with your work/boss. However, it appears that you are employed in the public sector. IMHO you would be crazy to resign because you would lose so many benefits!

    Go on then....list them?
  • worldtraveller
    worldtraveller Posts: 14,013 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Go on then....list them?

    Umh, pensions! ;)
    There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more...
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    worldtraveller wrote: »
    Umh, pensions! ;)


    Oh, it's just when you said "so many" :)
  • worldtraveller
    worldtraveller Posts: 14,013 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Oh, it's just when you said "so many" :)

    Umh, FLEXI-TIME WORKING & "SICKIES"! :rolleyes:
    There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more...
  • healy
    healy Posts: 5,292 Forumite
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    Kimberley wrote: »
    I think that if you make yourself intentially jobless then you will not be entitled to anything for 6 months. I may be wrong though.

    This does not apply to someone claiming Income Support as a single parent.
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