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work on welfare

  • 22-04-2009 12:59pm
    #1
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    A guy has just started working in my office. He is here about six weeks now and i have found out that he is getting his full dole too. I thought that if he was paying prsi that they would know that he was getting dole and stop it. However he said that they are far too busy at the moment to notice and he should be ok for another month or two. He said he intends to stop it next month.

    Surely the social welfare people should be aware that he ios doing this as he is now employed and is paying prsi. Are they not aware of this happening? How long could someone get away with this before getting caught.

    Now im not gonna shop him in to social but i just find it odd that there is a big hullaballoo about people doing this when it is a simple matter of checking prsi numbers on welfare database against those working and paying tax. Or is it that simple?

    Anyone?


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  • #2
    Xiney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,085 ✭✭✭Xiney


    If they catch him (and they probably will), he will have to repay 10 weeks worth of dole (the six weeks he's already working and the four he intends to continue this for)... 2040 euro.

    Don't envy him, he'll be in the **** soon enough.



    Personally I'd rat him out.


  • #3
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    bad karma and all that if i rat him out!! its better to let nature take its course imo.

    I still cant grasp the fact that as soon as he is reg in new job and all tax compliance is sorted that a red flag doesnt go up in the welfare office allerting them!! seems odd to me.

    On the othe hand he did tell me that he was not getting paid for the first month and as he was broke he needed the money to feed himself and put some gas in the car to get to work.


  • #4
    banshee_bones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,160 ✭✭✭✭banshee_bones


    frag420 wrote: »
    bad karma and all that if i rat him out!! its better to let nature take its course imo.

    I still cant grasp the fact that as soon as he is reg in new job and all tax compliance is sorted that a red flag doesnt go up in the welfare office allerting them!! seems odd to me.

    On the othe hand he did tell me that he was not getting paid for the first month and as he was broke he needed the money to feed himself and put some gas in the car to get to work.


    hmmm i know that when people register in college they send all the prsi numbers to the department of social welfare to stop people claiming full dole while in college or whatever else they might illigitemately claim for and surely if they could do it for the third level institutions that they could do it for people who work.

    I see your friends logic, hes thinking... "well sure im not getting paid so i may aswell keep getting dole, how else am i ging to feed myself and get to work, ah sure once i get paid il tell the dole i got a job"
    Perhaps he would be better off taking out a small over draft for the time being or living on his credit card til payday comes?


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