Voluntary redundancy and CB JSA

Paperweight

My friend's company is making a number of employees redundant. They will have to go through an assessment centre to determine which employees will stay and which will go. They have also offered voluntary redundancy to any staff member that is interested. If she takes voluntary redundancy, will she still be able to claim contribution based JSA?

princessdon

Yes -but some income protection insurances won't pay voluntary so do check

rogerblack

Taking voulantery redundancy is fine.
This is because it's not the same position as someone resigning because they diddn't like the job.
The company are getting rid of x positions.
Not allowing people to take voulantery redundancy and be entitled to JSA would make it considerably harder on employers, as nobody could.