Self employed. Leaving for health reasons

Primrose

If you're a self employed individual in a professional practice and having to give up work for health reasons, are there any benefits you can claim?

Are you entitled to claim job seekers allowance if you are looking for alternative less physically hard employment?

Can anybody please point to a link where possible benefits are clarified? Thanks.

elsien

Your JSA is likely to be income based if you've been self employed so I think you're likely to be looking at a universal credit claim.

https://www.gov.uk/jobseekers-allowance/eligibility


https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit

Have you looked at the benefits calculators on entitled.to or turn2us?