im from portugal so probably she was wrong about spain instead of portugal.
but this point got me thinking if she really knows about my flight to spain.

Or they checked the OPs Social Media?
OP Did you post anything on Facebook?

Do you collect all your fuel receipts, i pay for a lot of mine in cash.....

no social media, no tickets hahah did i need tickets if i was to drive down by car?

Be careful. if they are really trying to catch you out, they might ask for fuel receipts (for your return if you say you didn't keep them) or a hotel reservation (would you drive 19+ hours non-stop?

Why would they care where you went or did on your vacation days?

Tom

As one day wasn‘t a vacation day apparently?

Vacation days, apparently prolonged by a week (but no documentation for that either it seems ) with a doctors certificate due to illness. Anyways, from the info given here the OP is probably in deep poop with the RAV , and the info they are trying to hide for the days(s) that they are unable to account for, is independent of the destination at all …

there is no need to collect tickets, im not forced to, and they didnt ask before, the only thing that concerns me is if they can check with migration or de airline

Still, as long as you do your required applications, why should there be a problem?

Tom

One can do on its RAV vacation day as they wish (as long it is not paid work). If it is paid work it would be very stupid to take vacation and not report it to RAV, as paid work extends the RAV payments.

On RAV days however ... and yes there is a single day which is not accounted for. Luckily not my problem.

There are the strangest coincidents. For what ever reason your RAV advisor might have seen you abroad, at the airport ...

Because you're not available for work.

If you try and diddle them they will surely find out !



As soon as something doesn't quite add up and they start sniffing, they won't stop until the whole picture is crystal clear, they have the time and the resources to do this.


Either you provide sufficient proof of your activities for the dates requested or it will be considered you were not available for work and you'll get penalised with some days stopped.

Who said that they weren't?

Tom

The OP, as he was in Spain. Yes, OP can apply for jobs but unlikely that RAV considers it as available for work. Also, just imagine an article in 20min.ch about unemployed people "working remotely from Spain"

And that a well-known English speaking ex-pat site provided free advice on-line on how to achieve this regarding avoiding working-permit and possibly resident permit restrictions, claiming Swiss unemployment insurance benefit (RAV) constraints etc. without incurring any deductions from their Swiss unemployment insurance benefits when traveling abroad

Many companies have a policy that if you're too sick to work (on medical leave), you're too sick to go on vacation. I can't see how a doctor could override that, even for burnout. When you're on RAV, you have to be available for work unless you have authorized time off. Sure, the doctor could say you need to travel for medical treatment.

Friday the 6th has been pointed out as a gap between sick leave and vacation. If OP left on or before the 6th, he wasn't truly available for work. But if we're honest, he wouldn't have found and started a job that exact gap day anyway, right??

OP might not have been trying to scam the system, but it will probably look like it to the RAV advisor. It looks a bit sketchy to have a planned vacation and conveniently be signed off on sick leave just before the vacation starts. The appearance, for better or for worse, is that the sick leave was to try and extend the allowed vacation.

In any other country I don't think anyone would have noticed the Friday gap and queried. But TIS.

Edit: I suggest being honest, even if it means a small penalty. Lies can yet you into worse trouble because you often have to make up more than one.

by the way guys, can someone from this forum check my email? im afraid that someone from rav could check this,

i didnt try to scam the system but just check a good price the days before of my holidays so i took it,
thanks

You were caught by a professional doing a random check, there is no magic involved and you were an obvious candidate to be controlled. You put in a doctors notes covering sickness to the Thursday and you had holidays booked from the Sunday. It does not take a genius to jump to the conclusion that you might have bunked off early and they were right.

The first thing you do when find yourself in a hole is to stop digging, do not start digging faster by compounding the lie and dragging others into the lie, who most likely will be expecting to lie as well. You are dealing with a professional who has heard all the BS stories before and will no dam well that the chances of you traveling by car etc are low, so they’ll want statements of the people you traveled etc…

The simplest approach is to supply the tickets etc as requested and when he comes back to you claim ignorance of the rules, misunderstanding etc and hope the penalty is not too great.

In the strictest since you are making a false claim to obtain benefits and anyone helping you do so could be the subject of a criminal complaint. And most people will not maintain the lie for you under pressure and you will then be in a bigger mess.

From now on you can expect to be controlled regularly so make sure you have your ducks in a row going forward.

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Get real that is precisely what scamming the system is! You claimed sickness benefits and unemployment benefits while abroad on unauthorized holidays.