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Earning €38k per year? Your better off on the dole

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  • #32
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The rent/mortgauge money is NOT guaranteed it's up to the officer

    Also you have to exhaust your savings and other forms of income too - this part really sucks as it discriminates against people who have planned ahead IMHO anyone who has spent extravantly in the recent past could be made dispose of those assets first. If you have an 08 SUV or a holiday home should you really be entitled to preferential treatment when you could pay a large chunk even if it means only getting 50c to the € from the assets ?


  • #33
    Kang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭Kang


    he s not the smartest man at all. I know another guy taking the basic welfares then work for cash job too.


  • #34
    Kipperhell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭Kipperhell


    I had a friend working in FAS and she regularly had single parents on her course. They would have to earn €32k a year to just match the income of their allowances. That would involve ignoring childcare costs in order to work. So they refused work offered to them after taking a course.

    What makes it worse is due to this many woman refuse paternal rights to the father. It makes me laugh at the absurdity of our constitution while it actively pays for fathers not to take responsibility.


  • #35
    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭doolox


    I worked for 7 years without any payrise in work. A transfer to a new area of work resulted in me struggling to catch up in new job skills and responsibilities and being kept down in wages.
    I can see where people come from on comparing dole to work and the marginal benefit of most junior grade jobs for people with kids and dependents etc is too small.
    All jobs, regardless of pay and rank, are so intensive and demanding that many leave after a few months and go back on the dole.
    With intense competition and a shrinking pool of opportunity for advancement in the future this trend is going to intensify.You will se only the most educated getting any decent job promotion and the rest stuck in at the basic levels for a long time. Many will choose the dole.
    Electronics is now a joke with very low wages for techs, if they can get the job. Most other jobs pay more.


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