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Can I claim benefits If I quit because of stress

  • 12-08-2010 11:29am
    #1
    simplecontrol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    Hi I am currently off sick from my job because I cannot cope with the stress of the job anymore. I know i will get new employment in January and I am thinking of doing a FAS course in the meantime to learn new skills to which i feel will help me in my new job.
    I am just wondering if I will be able to claim jobseekers or any beniefit in the meantime?


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  • #2
    Xiney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,085 ✭✭✭Xiney


    If you have medical certs and the like, it should be fine.

    Might take a while to be approved (everyone's claims seem to be taking several weeks) so visit your CWO in the meantime.


  • #3
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    simplecontrol wrote: »
    Hi I am currently off sick from my job because I cannot cope with the stress of the job anymore. I know i will get new employment in January and I am thinking of doing a FAS course in the meantime to learn new skills to which i feel will help me in my new job.
    I am just wondering if I will be able to claim jobseekers or any beniefit in the meantime?

    Possibly

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/social-welfare/social-welfare-payments/disability-and-illness/disability_benefit

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #4
    Pat McGhee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 345 ✭✭Pat McGhee


    Hi OP,

    I quit my job in April of this year after 4 years of working for a bullying tyrant. Like you, I just couldn't cope with the stress anymore & I knew I had to quit for the sake of my health.

    I went & signed on the day after I left & with my JB application I enclosed a 2 page letter explaining why I left the job voluntarily. I listed incidents that happened to me, outlined how horrendously my boss treated me, etc.... I also enclosed proof of job applications that I had submitted during the many months prior to my departure with my JB application. 4 weeks later I got a letter from the SW advising my application had been successful & payment would be backdated to the day of my application.

    I say go for it & if you have medical certs as back up, enclose them as they can only make your case stronger. Your health is worth far more than any job out there.

    Best of luck!!


  • #5
    tootloo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭tootloo


    If they push it, then give them a reason. I moved from one part of the country home to my parents house for the summer. Left my job to do so.. and when I went in to claim, I just said I wanted to move home. 2 weeks later they sent me a letter saying I could collect it. They didn't ask me any questions really.. I had all the documents I needed with me on the first day I went in, and that must have worked in my favour.


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