Notice Period pay in redundancy: Public funds or not

Hi All,

I have query regarding redundancy payment. Unluckily I have been made redundant by my company and haven't given my arears of salary, holiday pay and notice period pay.
I have been given form RP1 by the administrators to claim this money from government ( National insurance fund i believe).

I am in UK on Tier1 and will go for extension in near future. So my questions is whether I should go to claim my money. If I claim then will I be breaking the rule of 'No Recourse to public funds' which may create problem in my extension.
I have found this link which says NI funds are not public funds http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas ... blicfunds/
But I still wanted to take some suggestion from Gurus here who might have answered such questions earlier.

Also because of redundancy, I'll be applying for extension earlier like 4 months before my current tier1 expiry. This shouldn't be any problem right ?

Thanks

Any thoughts or help guys ?

meratier1
Did you get the answer to this?

I was made redundant by 2e2 as well. I have filed the RP1 form - but if its gonna cause issues - I will call them and withdraw my application?