If you decide to claim JB you are not actually required to be available or seeking work once you are over age 62.
the thing that concerns me is that because I have been given the option now to work until I am 70, if I leave at 65 I am leaving of my own volition and not being forced out as was previously the case. I believe they may say I am not eligible as I gave up my job.
Conan, I don't think that is technically accurate. You are not required to engage with compulsory activation. But the stated conditions for jobseekers benefit are the same otherwise - one of which is being available for and looking for work. It is the enforcement of this that differs after 62.
Believe me, I am right. That’s exactly the way it worked for me. No question of having to be available for work if over age 62. It was never even raised in my meeting with the local Intreo office.
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