Need to leave my job :(

dora87

I have contacted the CAB to attempt to get an appointment - but I have to wait about 4 weeks to get this. By then I will have already been forced (due to circumstances) to give up my job.

I suppose I should have asked in my OP, not only am I entitled to anything, but also would I be able to claim straight away as such.

Yes I would very much like my relative back, but to be perfectly honest the inheritance could not have come at a better time with the birth of my son. I want to make sure I use the money I was lucky enough to inherit to its full potential to house me and my child. I am currently living in a shared house where when I was on maternity leave I was surviving off SMP and CB. I honestly believed that I would not qualify for tax credits. I will call them in the morning

BurnleyBob

The longer the gap is between the money for the house leaving your bank account and you claiming any means-tested benefit (Housing Benefit/LHA, Council Tax Support, Income Support, income-based JSA, etc), should you require state aid in future, the more favourably your claim(s) will be viewed.

Investing your inheritance in the property is eminently sensible, but from what you've wrote you already have a secure home. It would be different if you and your child were homeless or living somewhere that you could demonstrate was unbearable.

If, for example, you leave your job a few weeks or months after securing the property then you will run a real risk of being denied any means-tested benefit you might claim under the deprivation rules.

If you're really, really stuck, would it be possible for you to remain on the sick from work for a considerable period of time?

sammyjammy

BurnleyBob wrote: »

The longer the gap is between the money for the house leaving your bank account and you claiming any means-tested benefit (Housing Benefit/LHA, Council Tax Support, Income Support, income-based JSA, etc), should you require state aid in future, the more favourably your claim(s) will be viewed.

Investing your inheritance in the property is eminently sensible, but from what you've wrote you already have a secure home. It would be different if you and your child were homeless or living somewhere that you could demonstrate was unbearable.

If, for example, you leave your job a few weeks or months after securing the property then you will run a real risk of being denied any means-tested benefit you might claim under the deprivation rules.

If you're really, really stuck, would it be possible for you to remain on the sick from work for a considerable period of time?

Living in a shared house with a new born baby is hardly a safe and secure home in any long term sense