redudancy and Dole?

stek

There is voleentary redundancies coming soon in my job. My question is-
If I Take the redundancy, can I sign on the dole straight away?
IE- If I have a load of cash in the bank will I still get my dole money?
Ive been in the workforce and payin tax for over 15 years.

Xiney

From Citizen's Information:

Redundancy

From 1st February 2007, if you are under 55 and get a redundancy payment of more than €50,000 you will be disqualified from claiming Jobseeker's Benefit for the following lenght of time:

Amount of Redundancy Payment Period of Disqualification
€50,000.00 - €55,000 1 Week
€55,000.01 - €60,000 2 Weeks
€60,000.01 - €65,000 3 Weeks
€65,000.01 - €70,000 4 Weeks
€70,000.01 - €75,000 5 Weeks
€75,000.01 - €80,000 6 Weeks
€80,000.01 - €85,000 7 Weeks
€85,000.01 - €90,000 8 Weeks
€90,000.01 and over 9 Weeks

Buffman

From http://www.welfare.ie/EN/Schemes/JobseekerSupports/JobseekersBenefit/Pages/jb.aspx


Loss of employment

You must have suffered a substantial loss of employment in any period of six consecutive days in order to be eligible for Jobseeker's Benefit. This means, you must have lost at least one day's employment and as a result of this loss be unemployed for at least 3 days out of 6 days. Your earnings must also have been reduced because of the loss of employment.
You may be disqualified from getting Jobseeker's Benefit for 9 weeks if you:

• Left work voluntarily and without a reasonable cause
• Lost your job through misconduct
• Refused an offer of suitable alternative employment or suitable training. Suitable employment does not include the employment in a job that is vacant because of a trade dispute. In addition, it does not include employment in the district you last worked at a lower rate of pay or less favourable conditions than applied in you last job. Finally, suitable employment also does not include employment in another district to the one you worked in last, at a lower rate of pay or on less favourable conditions than are the general norm in that particular district.
• Are aged under 55 and get a redundancy payment of more than €50,000. The exact length of your disqualification (up to nine weeks) will in practice, depend on the precise amount of redundancy payment you received (see below).

Serafijn

I would think that taking redundancy constitutes a reasonable cause? The fact that it was voluntary redundancy shouldn't really come into it as you will still have all the relevant redundancy paperwork.

Buffman

Serafijn wrote: »

I would think that taking redundancy constitutes a reasonable cause? The fact that it was voluntary redundancy shouldn't really come into it as you will still have all the relevant redundancy paperwork.

Yes, any reasonable person would think that, but when it comes to social welfare, reasonable is not in their vocabulary.
Depending on the person you get on the day, they could easily say you left work voluntarily.