Appointing an agent to collect your dole

Do Wan

Anyone know if this is done immediately or is there a delay period?

Shifty

As far as I know only certain payments can be collected by an agent on your behalf.

http://www.welfare.ie/EN/Forms/Documents/ia70.pdf

Xiney

Job Seeker's Benefit or Job Seeker's Allowance can not be collected by an agent.


To be in receipt of these payments you must be genuinely available for and in search of employment. If you are not even able to go into the post office once a week and sign on once a month, you are probably not able to work. Therefore you should transfer your payment to disability allowance until such a time that you are able to work again.

vectra

Xiney wrote: »

If you are not even able to go into the post office once a week and sign on once a month, you are probably not able to work.

Or else too busy at work to go and collect it

Xiney

vectra wrote: »

Or else too busy at work to go and collect it

this is the second time the OP has posted this question - I was working off the backstory in a previous post.

Do Wan

Xiney wrote: »

this is the second time the OP has posted this question - I was working off the backstory in a previous post.

you wil also have noted i suffer from Ankylosing Spondylitis and have to take weekly injections and the 20 minute walk to the PO is too much for me sometimes. Dont dare dictate to me either that i should be on disability because i want to work, despite my condition

Xiney

I didn't doubt your desire to work.

I simply doubted that there is much chance of you gaining employment if you are unable to walk for 20 minutes. How would you get to work? How would you work? Even office jobs require movement.

I am not trying to be mean, OP. I am saying you should apply for disability allowance, because that more closely matches your circumstances at present.

Do Wan

Apologies if i was a bit brash but it sounded like you were being snidey.
if i go on disability, i box myself in, on all future job apps i have to state that i'm on disability and even though companies arent meant to, they do discriminate on health grounds.
the only reason i want to appoint an agent is cos i cant afford car insurance for the time being and the walk to the PO is tad long

Xiney

I was not aware that we had to account for how we spent our time whilst unemployed (although we are free to do so if we think it may improve our chances of getting hired, of course. For example, saying that we undertook FAS training and so on)

A period of unemployment will not seem odd on CVs in coming years - it will be the norm for a lot of people. I could be wrong on having to declare the fact that you were on disability allowance, but I don't remember ever being asked the question.

Black Lead

I was on disability allowance for around a year after coming out of hospital and haven't worked since around 2 1/2 years mainly because I feel the employers I've had interviews with turned me down because of this.

I would recommended meeting with jobs facilitator in social welfare and also fas officer explain your disability and explain your reluctance to go on disability allowance and try to get onto a CE scheme/job perhaps one of the office positions that the have from time to time.

I do think though you should go on disability allowance.

Xiney

Do employers really have the right to find out if you were on disability allowance?

How does this not contravene the various Equality acts, etc?

Black Lead

Xiney wrote: »

Do employers really have the right to find out if you were on disability allowance?

How does this not contravene the various Equality acts, etc?

From my experience I have to mention it to employers to explain my long spell on unemployment

Xiney

Well, at least now people will be able to not declare that.

There are plenty of people unemployed for a simple want of work.