Some advice needed on JB payments

thenobody

Hi,

I was made redundant from my job and my termination date is this friday coming.
I was planning to go to the social welfare office to claim Jobseekers Benefit on friday morning.
I will be moving to america in the second week on June - so I presume i have to ring them and stop the JB payments then, is this right?
I just saw reports of it taking many weeks to get the payments.
I believe you need to go to a post office to collect the payments so I may be in the situation that when they finally sort out my payments for me I wont even be around to go to the post office to get it. Is there another way i can somehow get the payments that is owed?
So should i even bother applying for it?

Also, I live in my apartment on the north side of dublin city for last three years and have never bothered to update any tax or bank records so they all still have my parents address on the south side. So when it says to go to your local social welfare office will i have to choose the one for my parents (where my tax history is based) or go to my actual local one to where i am living now?

Thanks, Any help will be appreciated.

baxterfly

I was in a similar situation. I left my job and had 3 weeks before I was leaving the country to live somewhere else. Jobseeker benefit is just that, its insurance while you are supposed to be actively looking for a job. If you tell them you intend to move in june they might refuse. Its not so much money your owed, rather than assitance while you are looking for work. Your not really loosing out on your prsi payments since you might need them when you come back. Im into my fifth week since I submitted my claim and I still havent got payment yet. If you take all this into account its less hassle to forget about it like I did. But its no harm in going down and asking them to confirm if its worth your while.

Im not really sure which office you should go through. Safest option is your old one, but I would ring them up and ask first before you make the trip.

dave1982

Make claim friday as planned then go to community welfare officer he will give you some money untill the claim is processed the amount he give's you will be deducted from the balance owing to you.so if you away when your claim come's through you might be owed 1000 euro where community welfare officer might have given you 600.all you be owed is 400 better letting 400 in post office than 1000.Oh yeah dont tell them your planning to leave counrty you get nothing at this stage i say

thenobody

Thanks for the reply.
Suppose its the same situation that some gets a job maybe 4 weeks later and hasnt started recieving payments - just they are in the country to go the post office when it does get sorted.
Will be really annoying to have standed in line for hours for no reason.

Since you are in your fifth week i assume you aare two weeks into living abroad. How do you think you are going to get the money once available? And how do they actually tell you its available?