No simple answer here, Lou. There's too many factors in play.
Most PPIs won't kick in until 30, 60, or 90 days after unemployment occurs. You'd need to check the T&Cs to see which applies to yours.
Secondly, with
redundancy, there's this: A
redundancy payment is meant to compensate you for the future loss of those pay packets you won't get, due to you losing your job. Therefore, a lot of insurance companies will only pay up to a certain amount, which is the difference between the
redundancy and the dole, (I'm simplifying as much as I can, here) on a proportional scale. In your partner's case, because he got a job quite quickly, if I understand right, the odds are that he'll have fallen between the holes of the net, as it were.
You really need to read the T&Cs very very carefully and see if what I said makes sense that way.
As for Monument, you'll need to be wee bit more specific than "blah blah" for someone to hazard a guess as to the whys and therefores!!!!

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