Hi, wonder if someone can help me. My partner got made redundant in November and has been claiming Contribution Based JSA. I work 20 hours a week and we get tax credits and were trying to get housing benefit.
Anyways my partner has had a re-occuring back problem that has reared its ugly head and its worse than ever. He is on strong pain killers from the doctor and is attending physio at the hospital. The physio said its from an old injury and could take well over a year to sort out and may need an operation.
He currently cannot sit down at a desk for any length of time, or stand and really his only releif is when he is laid down. When he goes to sign on at the job centre and they ask if hes able to work hes going to have to say no, so what happens will we lose the JSA money, is there anything else he can get? Would he get anything for going on sick? Are we entitled to any disability payments, if hes going to be like this for a year hes not going to be able to work at all. Im really panicking as were really struggling money wise and ive just had to go bankrupt. We have 5 kids and im trying to work as much as I can, but also have to look after them all on my own because he cant do anything. :(
Anyways my partner has had a re-occuring back problem that has reared its ugly head and its worse than ever. He is on strong pain killers from the doctor and is attending physio at the hospital. The physio said its from an old injury and could take well over a year to sort out and may need an operation.
He currently cannot sit down at a desk for any length of time, or stand and really his only releif is when he is laid down. When he goes to sign on at the job centre and they ask if hes able to work hes going to have to say no, so what happens will we lose the JSA money, is there anything else he can get? Would he get anything for going on sick? Are we entitled to any disability payments, if hes going to be like this for a year hes not going to be able to work at all. Im really panicking as were really struggling money wise and ive just had to go bankrupt. We have 5 kids and im trying to work as much as I can, but also have to look after them all on my own because he cant do anything. :(