First time UC claim help!

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I resigned from a FT job whilst on maternity leave - my last maternity payment was end of September and my last day of being employed was 27th October. We made a UC claim and today was the day we find out what we will be entitled to, however it has come up as £0? Any calculators we have done have come out at being entitled to around £600/£700 a month.

I don’t understand, I haven’t been paid from work since end of October which was just some accrued annual leave and that was my last salary payment. My partner works FT earning £30,000.

Can anybody help? I’m panicking now. I kept aside some of my last salary payment for this months bills but after that nothing.

if you are paid zero this month - do you need to apply again? or will the UC automatically be paid next month?

Yes because a Uc payment is based on circumstances on the last day of your assessment period.

It will automatically be paid. A claim should not close before six zero awards.