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Support for firms recruiting from Welfare?

  • 08-01-2009 10:59am
    #1
    rediguana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭


    Hi.

    I have two questions, kind of opposite sides of the one coin. I'm posting here on Boards, but I'm simultaneously looking on www.welfare.ie . But if anyone can give me the info outright, or the proper link, I'd appreciate it.

    1. Is there any scheme whereby a company can be financially supported by the government for taking a worker off the dole? If so, how long would said employee have had to be on social welfare?

    2. A person is signing on. He then returns to work in (possibly) a part-time role for the company above. Does he receive his part-time wage AND a pro-rata portion of his previous dole?

    Thanks very much for any help.


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  • #2
    tomred1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭tomred1


    1.I never heard of anything. But i have heard of Fas doing a scheme for employers who hire disabled people.
    2.Someone can get a casual payment of the dole while working part-time.


  • #3
    rediguana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭rediguana


    Thanks.

    I'm pretty sure there USED to be a scheme. Basically the government would part-fund the wage of someone who had been on the dole...


  • #4
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    rediguana wrote: »

    1. Is there any scheme whereby a company can be financially supported by the government for taking a worker off the dole? If so, how long would said employee have had to be on social welfare?

    Revenue Job Assist - Employers can make a double deduction of the employee's income from their company's taxable income for up to 3 years provided that the employee remains with them.

    Back to Work Allowance - means that when you employ eligible workers you may not have to pay your share of their PRSI contributions for the first two years of their employment.

    rediguana wrote: »
    2. A person is signing on. He then returns to work in (possibly) a part-time role for the company above. Does he receive his part-time wage AND a pro-rata portion of his previous dole?

    Yes - but he must be fully off work at least 3 days Mon to Sat.


  • #5
    rediguana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭rediguana


    Thanks for that, Nolanger! Very helpful.


  • #6
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    No problem - just remember that Job Assist has nothing to do with Dept Social Welfare - it's Revenue Commissioners that usually run this.
    Also, it's one or the other - not both.


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