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Proving something that doesn't exist?! Help

  • 26-03-2009 1:51pm
    #1
    Fran79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭


    Moved here in Nov from UK....husband started work within 3 weeks of getting here. I signed on but didn't start to get any JSA (means tested) till end of Jan. (no job yet - although have had a couple of interviews).

    In the mean time hubbie was let go from his job at the end of Jan. He is now signing on also - but still awaiting a payment. My payment still hasn't been changed. We went to CWO but the guy wants a letter from UK to prove we are not getting any social welfare payment there........so question, how do you get a letter that proves you are getting nothing? (And there is more than 1 dept in the UK for such things). This is despite the fact that I am getting a payment here and hubbie has worked here / has P45.

    Am I missing something or is the CWO asking for the hell of it. I appreciate that there are a lot of people asking for help and they have to detere fraud, but if I was claiming in the UK how the hell did I get a payment here.

    What is the appeals process and is there another source of funding I can access in the meantime. We have €127 / wk for me hubbie and our son.

    TIA

    Fran


Comments

  • #2
    CamperMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭CamperMan


    I thought the dole here could easily check with the dole in the UK to see if your claiming in the UK!

    Phone the job centre up in the town where you used to live (you will have to give them your details including your national insurance numbers) and explain your situation to them, ask for a letter confirming that neither of you are claiming dole in the UK!


  • #3
    greendom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,382 ✭✭✭✭greendom


    Here is a list of contact numbers and addresses you may find helpful. I'm sure if you give 1 or 2 of these you will get the help you need. They are generally very helpful

    http://www.dwp.gov.uk/international/benefits/benefits_addresses.asp


  • #4
    fakefurbabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 109 ✭✭fakefurbabe


    I moved from the UK in Jan 2006 and was sent a letter from the Child Benefit Agency in the UK confirming that I am no longer in receipt of Child Benefit from the UK and advising me to claim from the state I now resided in.

    If you cancelled all of your benefit(s) in the UK, you will recieve letter(s) confirming this fact and that should be surfice for the Social Welfare in Ireland. They do contact the Benefit Agency in the UK when you make a claim over here - but it does take forever (it took me six months back then to get my Child Benefit sorted out!).

    I think that they need to satisfy themselves that you aren't trying to claim from both states at the same time! Have you talked to anyone at www.citizeninformation.ie? They should be able to help you. Good luck!


  • #5
    Fran79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭Fran79


    Hi Guys
    Thanks for the replies...

    Turns out despite telling tax credits / child benefit people I was moving they (along with council tax gggrrr) didn't action anything.. Ergo I was still on the system.

    Surprisingly some money has even gone into my English bank account when it shouldn't. Now I have to wait for them to work out how much they have overpaid me (they admitted it was their mistake and have sent a letter to CWO via me - so at least I wont be fined).

    Ironically in the meantime hubbies and my dole has been sorted and we got our back payments a couple of days ago (so no need for CWO now - although on my most recent visit I got a different person who was a hundred times more helpful and had a contact in the UK - hence how I found all this out).

    Shame I didn't get the job I was interviewed for last week.......oh hmmmm.

    Fran


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