Exercising treaty rights during illness

[David234]

Hello there,

I'm from Hungary, I was living in the UK in the past nine years. I'm suffering from a mental illness and I'm not able to work. My question is the following:
How can I exercise my treaty rights during an illness while I'm not self sufficiant?
Thank you.

[Jbkhan32]

Hello there,

I'm from Hungary, I was living in the UK in the past nine years. I'm suffering from a mental illness and I'm not able to work. My question is the following:
How can I exercise my treaty rights during an illness while I'm not self sufficiant?
Thank you.

During illness or holidays you retained your worker status and hence you don't need to worry about it

[Obie]

The top statement is not very clear.

Only if the OP was working before he feel ill and unable to work due to metal illness, will he or she be able to retain worker status.

They have to have been a worker before the illness to be able to retain that status following the illness.

I hope that makes sense.

[secret.simon]

I was living in the UK in the past nine years.

Have you worked continuously for any five of the past nine years? If you have, you will have already acquired PR. You do not need to exercise treaty rights after acquiring PR.

If you have not worked continuously for five years, what is the single largest block of time that you have worked continuously? And how long a break have you taken either side of it?

[Noneabout]

I'd like to know this as well as my unmarried partner was diagnosed with severe depression and only started working 2 years ago, which was three years into his sponsorship of me.