Just got wind of my own personal SHTF situation....

[BeardyMan]

Just done the gov "benefits calculator" - if I keep working for them we as a family would have an income of £70 a week more than being on being on benefits.... BUT I could be doing this again in 12 months time.....

So over the next year my redundancy would be £4750 and the additional £70 per week comes to £3640.....

That's £70 more for 30 hours of your time though. So you'd really be working for £2.34 an hour.

Personally I'd take the redundancy and use that to keep me ticking over until I could find another job. But then I often find myself out of contract and searching for the next one, so I'm kind of used to it. Without the redundancy payout at the end though.