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by dalebutt » Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:26 pm
If I understood you correctly, you received JSA for 7 months post maternity leave? you will retain worker status if after leaving your job you registered with the job centre as a job seeker, which as you have described you did, and did you continue to work after you signed off JSA?
Retaining worker status
071182 A worker retains worker status when he stops working if
1. he is temporarily unable to work due to illness or accident1 or
Note: The illness or accident which results in a worker being temporarily
unable to work must be suffered by that worker1.
1 CIS/3182/2005, para 20
2.
he is in duly recorded involuntary unemployment after having been employed in the UK, as long as he has registered as a jobseeker with the relevant employment office and
2.1 he was employed for a year or more before becoming unemployed
2.2 he has been unemployed for no more than six months or
2.3 he can provide evidence that he is seeking employment in the UK and has a genuine chance of being engaged2 or