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Got laid off end of November, social welfare being pricks

  • 29-01-2009 10:00pm
    #1
    J_Dublin15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 217 ✭✭


    Hi All,

    I got laid off in late November, as I was originally born in Scotland, the social welfare office have been incredibly awkward to me. I thought I was going to get a new role which fell through in early December. So I've been out of work for around two months now.

    I called the office up, which has a ridiculously long lunch hours much as I discovered this week when I turned up during it and it was closed. When I spoke to them on the phone they asked for my mothers birth cert as I was not born in Ireland, and they have a different address on file for me from when I was living in a different part of Dublin. I live with one flatmate.

    So I'm planning on going down there tomorrow. However I will be away from the next week due to a family occasion outside Ireland, My question is how long does the process take and what should I expect and how quick. In my last job I was there for two years and was earning in the upper 20k's.


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  • #2
    yabadabado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,573 ✭✭✭✭yabadabado


    why do you think social welfare are being pr**ks? i say that is fairly standard procedure


  • #3
    Fran79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭Fran79


    Hi

    Why do they need your mothers birth cert?

    How long have you lived in Ireland? / How many years working and paying PRSI?

    Seems strange to me. I am British and have lived here a few months and wasn't asked for mothers birth cert.......although I have been waiting for a means test for 2.5 mths (husband was working got laid off last week, been looking after 9mth old and applying for jobs - over 100 apps a few interviews but no luck yet)

    Fran


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