Can you claim for losses while on the sick

silkyuk9

WestonDave wrote: »

Might be worth him asking if there are any extra shifts going - if the bug is going around there might be a few extra slots as others go sick or if someone has had to cover his shifts they might be willing to arrange a swap for one of theirs.

He tries to get extra shifts, he works full time with a few 13 hour shifts, wage not spectacular, his partner is a medical student so only gets and extra few hundred bursay. Nursery is £48 per day too so its not all sunshine and rainbows, trouble is he lives over 140 miles from us so we cant help with child care.

EmmaHerts

silkyuk9 wrote: »

Funny thing is though how would the employment office know if you were sick for 4 days? Ive never seen them round knocking on doors making sure the unemployed are all healthy and fit and organising medicals and issuing vitamins!! In my humble opinion the unemployment office cant be arsed if you are ill or not, they do not give a fiddlers fart if you are homeless, jobless ill or fit. infact they recommend single girls to get preggers and claim everything.

Funny thing I know that's true (not in my case though)

You sound like a walking Daily Mail. If your son has been in the army for years and then in full time employment he should have savings for these things just like the rest of us.

silkyuk9

EmmaHerts wrote: »

You sound like a walking Daily Mail. If your son has been in the army for years and then in full time employment he should have savings for these things just like the rest of us.

id love to start a pole about savings. You are lucky to have savings I reckon over 50% of people on here do not.

What a wally

EmmaHerts

silkyuk9 wrote: »

id love to start a pole about savings. You are lucky to have savings I reckon over 50% of people on here do not.

What a wally

I think the childish comments you made about the unemployed show who the wally is. Grow up and stop being so spiteful.

silkyuk9

EmmaHerts wrote: »

I think the childish comments you made about the unemployed show who the wally is. Grow up and stop being so spiteful.

What childish comments have I made? (BTW, my daughter is unemployed, why would I be so spiteful?)

RichardD1970

silkyuk9 wrote: »

Its not worth working these days, god I wish i was a woman with 5 kids to 5 dads and unemployed

SSP is more than JSA. What do you expect? That your son can claim his full wage whilst off sick?

silkyuk9

RichardD1970 wrote: »

SSP is more than JSA. What do you expect? That your son can claim his full wage whilst off sick?

No that's not what im saying. Ive never been unemployed so do not know the ins and outs, I was asking incase you only get a basic amount from your employer but could get some help from the state. Everyone else gets help in some form or another. so was asking incase there was hep here too.

McKneff

silkyuk9 wrote: »

No that's not what im saying. Ive never been unemployed so do not know the ins and outs, I was asking incase you only get a basic amount from your employer but could get some help from the state. Everyone else gets help in some form or another. so was asking incase there was hep here too.

I don't.

female, 63, 60% state pension, small personal pension. No one has ever helped me except my OH and myself. I'm not moaning, I'm quite happy to be responsible for myself.

silkyuk9

McKneff wrote: »

I don't.

female, 63, 60% state pension, small personal pension. No one has ever helped me except my OH and myself. I'm not moaning, I'm quite happy to be responsible for myself.

Good on you, we never had any help in any form bringing our kids up. both me and the misses had full time jobs but when child care and rent (rent at the time) and other expenses were taken off we had nothing. Some nights when our 2 kids were very young we just went to bed early to keep warm and stay tight. What is upsetting though is where we lived our neighbour in the flat next door was a single mum with 2 kids. She was out every Saturday night, no worries about bills or a care in the world. We baby sitted for her for a fiver for a little more income. You gotta laugh, 2 full time workers baby sitting for an unemployed mum for a fiver so she could go out partying. Its true but it doesn't make sense

agrinnall

I suggest you leave the moaning about other people to another site, I'm sure you'll get a receptive audience on the Daily Mail.

To get back to your original question, which it was reasonable to ask if you're not aware of how sick pay works, you can get more information from the SSP and Taking sick leave sections of https://www.gov.uk/browse/working/time-off