claiming enemployment benefit whilst on holiday

[gina32]

a friend of mine is being made redundant tomorrow, she is going on holiday on sunday,can she sign on as soon as she is told she is redundant, and if so can she claim whislt being on holiday, and does the amount of redundancy make a differnce to what she can claim for, she has been looking on web but cant find anything and is now worried, many thanks

[redcrx]

if her redundancy package includes paid notice then she wont be able to claim until the notice has expried

[gina32]

thanks, she has a meeting tomorrow and she thinks they are just going to say from today......

[gina32]

trigger i said that to her as well

[TonyV]

There are rules with DWP in claiming benefits

http://www.jobseekers....com/what-is-JSA.html

Or check out DWP website - every case is individual, so impossible too comment on

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/

[gina32]

thank you

[LoftyLottie]

You are allowed a certain amount of holidays whilst claiming unemployment benefit, but I don't know the rules.

[joko]

yes you are allowed to go away, and given this hol was prebooked i dont see that they would have a problem.

i would suggest she books her appointment and makes the claim before she goes though, as that will be the date they work from

[dotty.]

I was in the same situation 18 months ago, my official redundancy date was 18th august but the department physically closed on 8th august, the job centre staff told me that if there was no job to go to, then my claim for unemployment started the day after i last attended work, then when the final salary and redundency was paid, it would be taken into account for benefit purposes. If you are only going away for 2 weeks it has no effect on a claim as long as you inform them that it was a pre-arranged holiday

[dotty.]

and no redundancy payments are not taken into account under a certain amount, can't remember what it was though

[4getmenot]

you do have to be able to sign on though.

[gina32]

thanks for your answers, she did sign on and was given a date for next week for first signing, or whatever and she told them she would be out of the country on holiday and was told that she couldnt claim then