Will my Dole be affected?

lmahoney79

I was made redundant late last year and am collecting Dole payments. I am living with my partner who is in full time employment at the moment but will more than likely be out of work too in few weeks. If he starts to sign on too will my dole payment drop as we will be two people living together on the dole?

Tipsy Mac

If your on the jobseekers benefit no, if your on jobseekers allowance yes as it is means tested. Jobseekers benefit means you are claiming from contributions made while you were employed through PRSI payments.

IT Loser

Tipsy Mac wrote: »

If your on the jobseekers benefit no, if your on jobseekers allowance yes as it is means tested. Jobseekers benefit means you are claiming from contributions made while you were employed through PRSI payments.

The means-test is always something that intrigues me.

Why would I, or anyone else, be attempting to sign on, if I had any means???

If you show them your bank statements, your credit union statements, your loan account statements, the tiny box room you share with another member of your family, will this satisfy them???

How do they put a value on the meals and board you receive from your parents? Or do they bother??

Ta.

Juwwi

If the OP is not married to her partner surely the means test then would'nt
include his income or do couples who live together that arent married be classed the same as a married couple?

Xiney

If you are getting a means tested payment like Jobseeker's Allowance, a couple who are living together as if they were married (ie, share a bed) are considered married for the purposes of the means test.

Jobseeker's Benefit is not means tested so you would each get the full payment, at least until the stamps run out and you have to go on Jobseeker's Allowance. Hopefully you get working by then.



And IT Loser, if I could get 204 euro per week instead of the 90 or so that I think (hope) I'll be getting when my means test comes through, I'd certainly take it and run.

IT Loser

Xiney wrote: »

If you are getting a means tested payment like Jobseeker's Allowance, a couple who are living together as if they were married (ie, share a bed) are considered married for the purposes of the means test.

Jobseeker's Benefit is not means tested so you would each get the full payment, at least until the stamps run out and you have to go on Jobseeker's Allowance. Hopefully you get working by then.



And IT Loser, if I could get 204 euro per week instead of the 90 or so that I think (hope) I'll be getting when my means test comes through, I'd certainly take it and run.

Yeah but here is the beef....why do you think you will only be getting 90??? Do you have a few bob coming in mate? I dont. I have outgoings- without even leaving the house.
What are you doing that should disqualify you from getting the rest??
Sorry if I am prying. I am just eager to learn about how this system works.

I did not have a set figure in my head, but if they think that meals and a shared box room is something my parents should be charging 100 Euros a week for, then fine:rolleyes:

Truthfully, I will take anything I can get.

I got myself into debt to try and beat the slump, by way of bettering myself. I even claimed tax back off an old job rather than go back onto the welfare. I share a box room and I bust my arse for my parents trying to make the place habitable. In the meantime, I get to go out once a blue moon and spend a fortune calling people about work.

If they think I, or anyone else, is worth 90 quid a week for that, then thats mighty big of them.

Who here passed a means test and got less than 204??

Juwwi

Xiney wrote: »

If you are getting a means tested payment like Jobseeker's Allowance, a couple who are living together as if they were married (ie, share a bed) are considered married for the purposes of the means test.


Thanks for the response Xiney ..
Im totally surprised that a couple living together can be means tested together if they are not married for jobseekers allowance.

There has to be loop holes in that tho like a couple just pretending that they are just friends who couldnt afford to buy alone and are sleeping in different bedrooms..

Xiney

robbie1977 wrote: »

There has to be loop holes in that tho like a couple just pretending that they are just friends who couldnt afford to buy alone and are sleeping in different bedrooms..

That's not a loop hole... that's fraud.

IT Loser I've answered your question in your own thread.

IT Loser

Xiney wrote: »

That's not a loop hole... that's fraud.

IT Loser I've answered your question in your own thread.

Thanks Xiney!!!