Benefits during time out from study

In the event that you are a full-time understudy, whether you can get advantages amid time out from study relies on upon the explanation behind setting aside time out and the advantage concerned.

You can keep on getting Income Support, wage based Jobseeker's Allowance or pay related Employment and Support Allowance amid your time out from study, in the event that you are an understudy who can get these advantages while contemplating.

Sickness or minding obligations

In the event that you are a full-time understudy and you have to set aside time out, for instance because of disease or in light of the fact that you have to administer to somebody incidentally, despite everything you consider a full-time understudy. You will in this manner fit the bill for the advantages you could get while concentrating on.

In the event that you aren't qualified for an understudy give or credit, you might be qualified for Jobseeker's Allowance, Housing Benefit or Council Tax Support for up to a year once your sickness or minding obligations have arrived at an end. This is while you are holding up to re-join the course (for instance, until the begin of the following scholarly term).

You might be dealt with as having understudy bolster wage, for example, understudy advances or concedes amid this period. See understudy support

Pregnancy

On the off chance that you are a full-time understudy and you set aside time out from your studies in light of the fact that you are pregnant, you won't have the capacity to get most means-tried advantages, unless you are an understudy who can fit the bill for these advantages while contemplating.

Once the infant is conceived, you might then have the capacity to get

• Income Support on the off chance that you are a solitary guardian

• Housing Benefit and Council Tax Support (on the off chance that you are a solitary guardian or an individual from a couple who are in charge of a kid and are both full-time understudies)

• Maternity Allowance or Statutory Maternity Pay on the off chance that you have been working.

Different reasons

In the event that you are a full-time understudy and are setting aside time out from your studies for different reasons, for example, to re-sit exams, you will in any case be dealt with as a full-time understudy and won't have the capacity to claim implies tried advantages, unless you are an understudy who can get these advantages while consid