Resignation and then sick

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Fate often hits you twice as hard. If, in addition to a long illness, the employer gives them notice, then many see this as social decline. Many then ask themselves whether they can even register as unemployed when they are actually sick.

Not everyone stays healthy throughout their working life.
Not everyone stays healthy throughout their working life.

Social benefits such as continued payment of wages in the event of illness, sick pay or ALG I cushion the financial consequences illness and unemployment at least from. But the combination of illness and unemployment can also have some pitfalls.

Quit and only then got sick

  • If your employment relationship has been terminated, you should not put off registering as unemployed with the employment agency. On the first day of unemployment you must have registered as unemployed at the latest, but you can do this three months before you become unemployed, cf. § 141 para. 1 SGB III (formerly: Section 122 Para. 1 SGB III).
  • If you become ill after the termination - but while your employment is still ongoing - you are initially entitled to continued remuneration from your employer. If the employment relationship ends during the six-week payment period and you are still ill, you should submit an application for sickness benefit to your health insurance company.
  • Membership in health insurance exists while receiving sickness benefits in accordance with § 192 para. 1 No. 2 SGB V.
  • Even if you are still unable to work, you should contact the on the first day of unemployment at the latest Report unemployed to the employment agency, but point out that you will only apply for unemployment benefit if the requirements are met therefor exist.
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  • The practice of the employment agencies can be very different, so it can happen that an unemployment registration is initially rejected if you are unable to work. In that case, however, you should have the registration acknowledged on site so that, in the worst case, you are not later exposed to the accusation that the unemployment registration was not made or was too late.
  • On the first day on which the incapacity for work ends, you should then immediately report to the employment agency in person.

Inability to work during unemployment

  • If you only become ill after registering as unemployed, you will initially continue to receive unemployment benefits for six weeks, cf. § 146 para. 1 SGB III.
  • You should also note the so-called "seamless regulation" of § 145 SGB III (formerly: § 125 SGB III): According to this you can also then receive unemployment benefits draw if you have already dropped out of sickness benefit due to a long-term illness, but you have not yet received a disability pension relate.

Illness and unemployment often coincide. Who one termination should register as unemployed as soon as possible.

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