means test waiting time

Panthro

hi all, im planning on applying for jobseekers allowence, i hear i have to take a means test, just wondering does anybody know the average waiting time in galway city between applying and being interviewed? i hear anything up to 6weeks?!:eek:

mine took ages but it doesn't really matter.. goto the welfare officer and you can pick it up of him until you get means test.

Mike...

Yeah If you apply for Social Welfare Benefits and are waiting a good deal of time for your means test, you will not receive any payments from the Department of Social Welfare, If during this time you become reliant on funds from this allowance or benefit you can attend your local Community Welfare Officer (CWO) for an emergency payment from the HSE, Please bring all details of your claim with you and ID & PPSN.

This payment will then be deducted from the amount you would have received if you had waited for your means test.

It is worth nothing that if your means test application fails you may no longer be eligible to receive payments from the HSE and may be pursued for return of any monies given to you by the HSE.

Hope this helps

baxterfly

Yeh I heard about this. Im still waiting on my means test application to be processed. So I went over to the relieveing officer in the HSE.

Explained I really need some cash and Im waiting on my means test application. She said "no we dont really get involved with that, go and talk to the social welfare"

Waste of f**cking time. Maybe she just didnt like my face.

jjf212

This is weird cos I got my test the first day i applied.

They did it there and then - that was march 10th and still no sign of money tho!!

This was in cork city though.

D. Murphy

I signed on, on a wednesday and had my means test the following monday with a very nice lady (cant remember her name,sorry)

This was in Limerick City

Xiney

I'm in Galway - applied for means test 30th March. Has now been 4 weeks and as of yet no word.

Hope to hear from them soon, though.

IT Loser

I am in Wicklow and I was quoted today, April 30th, that it could be more than 3 weeks but that they were hoping to keep it as close to 3 weeks as possible.

Kotek Besar

Guys, I thought the Means Test was just where you filled out the Means Test form, detailing your means, and handed it in along with your UB1 form.. no?

Or does an officer subsequently have to visit your home to verify your means? If so, how does this work? How would you demonstrate that you've honestly filled out the Means Test form?

Sorry if I seem clueless.

IT Loser

benifa wrote: »

Guys, I thought the Means Test was just where you filled out the Means Test form, detailing your means, and handed it in along with your UB1 form.. no?

Or does an officer subsequently have to visit your home to verify your means? If so, how does this work? How would you demonstrate that you've honestly filled out the Means Test form?

Sorry if I seem clueless.

To the best of my knowledge, the Welfare department sends out an employee/agent of the office who visits you in your home.

They then ask you to show them up-to-date copies of your bank and/or credit union statements.

You are usually subjected to a brief questioning vis a vis your outgoings and your incomings.

If you are under the age of 25 and are claiming Unemployment Assistance, the Welfare person will make a determination of the worth of the privilege you derive from living with your parents.

This is a subjective and vaguely defined criterion, but it only operates where you are {a} under 25 and {b} claiming unemployment assistance {for the record, only people who are claiming the ASSISTANCE will be subject to a means test anyways....}

If you are over the age of 25, the income of your parents, and the worth you derive from living with your parents, are not of any concern to the Means Tester and therefore there is no risk of those issues detracting from your payments.

Kotek Besar

Thanks IT Loser, appreciate the detailed explanation.

My mother-in-law has applied for JA, in respect of herself, her husband and her 15 years old son. The three of them currently live with me in my home, together with my wife and our own son (so our 3 bedroom semi houses 6 people: 4 adults, 1 child & 1 baby).

Might this complicate her Means Test, do you think? Between my mother/father-in-law they haven't any source of income, however at the same time have very little outgoings, since they live with us rent-free and bill-free.

My mother-in-law was doing a FÁS Training Course which recently finished, which she hoped would help lead to employment, but it hasn't yet anyway (though she's been applying for every suitable job vacancy going).

IT Loser

benifa wrote: »

Thanks IT Loser, appreciate the detailed explanation.

My mother-in-law has applied for JA, in respect of herself, her husband and her 15 years old son. The three of them currently live with me in my home, together with my wife and our own son (so our 3 bedroom semi houses 6 people: 4 adults, 1 child & 1 baby).

Might this complicate her Means Test, do you think? Between my mother/father-in-law they haven't any source of income, however at the same time have very little outgoings, since they live with us rent-free and bill-free.

My mother-in-law was doing a FÁS Training Course which recently finished, which she hoped would help lead to employment, but it hasn't yet anyway (though she's been applying for every suitable job vacancy going).

From what I know, once the recipient is over the age of 25, then the benefit they derive from living rent free is not taken into account. The simple fact that your Mother has completed her FAS Course will count in her favour, for sure.