Universal Credit - Resigning Due To Stress

daleks637

Hi.
I'm keeping this anonymous so my employer won't see this. I started a job two weeks ago. I have had significant stress in my life with family problems and financial issues. I'm 23 years of age. The managers are awful towards me having a go at me when I get something wrong two weeks in yet I've had no proper training. I am coming home every night from work with ill health and my depression is through the rough. I have aspergers and my work never asked me if I have any disabilities. I am looking to be signed off work to get my head straight but I'm worried that my work will sack me as I'm employed this early on. If I leave the job with a doctors note to back me up will I be entitled to Universal Credit. Will I be sanctioned for leaving the job? Also if they dismiss me due to me going on the sick can I be sanctioned as technically I've been fired. 

Thanks!

calcotti

If you have a Fit Note from your GP there should be no problem claiming UC.

daleks637

calcotti said:

If you have a Fit Note from your GP there should be no problem claiming UC.

Thank you for your response. So if I was signed off work and then left the job (resigned) due to ill health will UC sanction me. 
Another scenario is if I say I'm signed off for say a month. I'm currently in my probation period at work. If my employer let me go would I be sanctioned?

Thanks.

calcotti

This is the same question you have already asked and had answered.
If you have a health issue evidenced with a Fit Note you will not be sanctioned for leaving work.
If your employer ‘lets you go’ while you are off work with a Fit Note you will not be sanctioned.