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dialysis1
dialysis1 Posts: 1 Newbie
in Benefits & tax credits
I am 47, single, out of work have a mortgage what benefits am I entitled to?
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  • specialboy
    specialboy Posts: 1,436 Forumite
    Why are you out of work?
  • skitler
    skitler Posts: 3,065 Forumite
    dialysis1 wrote: »
    I am 47, single, out of work have a mortgage what benefits am I entitled to?



    what do you need?
  • skitler
    skitler Posts: 3,065 Forumite
    specialboy wrote: »
    Why are you out of work?

    what difference does that make?
  • pmlindyloo
    pmlindyloo Posts: 13,104 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    specialboy wrote: »
    Why are you out of work?

    Good question.

    Are you ill?

    Have you left your job?

    There are different benefits for different scenarios.

    So, if you have lost your job you may be entitled to contribution based JSA if you have been working and paying NI class 1 contributions for the last two tax years.

    If you have savings under £16000 then you may be entitled to council tax support and after 13 weeks Support for Mortgage interest.

    However if you have left your job voluntarily or been dismissed for gross misconduct then you are likely to be sanctioned and not receive JSA for a time.

    Hope that may answer your question but if not you need to give more details.
  • specialboy
    specialboy Posts: 1,436 Forumite
    skitler wrote: »
    what difference does that make?



    It can make a big difference depending on the OP's answer.
  • skitler
    skitler Posts: 3,065 Forumite
    specialboy wrote: »
    It can make a big difference depending on the OP's answer.


    op may want advice not an inquisition.


    op wants to know what they can squeeze out with that info, anything else can be stretched to fit the application.
  • specialboy
    specialboy Posts: 1,436 Forumite
    skitler wrote: »
    op may want advice not an inquisition.


    op wants to know what they can squeeze out with that info, anything else can be stretched to fit the application.



    Advice cant be given without facts.
    Have they resigned? have they been sacked? made redundant? self employed but sick? not an inquisition just one simple question.
  • rogerblack
    rogerblack Posts: 9,446 Forumite
    specialboy wrote: »
    Advice cant be given without facts.
    Have they resigned? have they been sacked? made redundant? self employed but sick? not an inquisition just one simple question.

    They could even on those facts just been banged up for 20 years for murder.
  • skitler
    skitler Posts: 3,065 Forumite
    edited 11 April 2014 at 9:48AM
    rogerblack wrote: »
    They could even on those facts just been banged up for 20 years for murder.

    its not a crime to have been banged up.


    can you get a mortgage on a prison cell.:rotfl:
  • fed_up_and_stressed
    fed_up_and_stressed Posts: 1,673 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    skitler wrote: »
    its not a crime to nave been banged up.


    can you get a mortgage on a prison cell.:rotfl:

    Skitler have you been eating too many E numbers luv ?!chuckle!
    Spelling courtesy of the whims of auto correct...


    Pet Peeves.... queues, vain people and hypocrites ..not necessarily in that order.
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