Passport allowance ?

Red Sleeping Beauty

You need a passport to make a claim and to collect your money but a passport costs €85 and you need one unless you drive and have a license.

Is there anyway to get an allowance to obtain a passport ? As far as i know the Garda Card is not proof of identity meerly proof of age apparently. :rolleyes:

Xiney

It's likely they'd accept an age card, though, especially since you're certainly not the only person in the same position to not have a passport or a driver's license.

A provisional driver's license only costs ~35 euro (provided you pass the test - though it's not hard) so you might find that useful.

Max Power1

In my case they accepted a birth cert on application for JB. I dont have any pictorial ID and i certainly dont have €85 to pay for one!

Luckily i havent been asked to produce ID at the post office yet, and by now all the staff in the PO know my face so it should be ok!

Red Sleeping Beauty

Xiney wrote: »

It's likely they'd accept an age card, though, especially since you're certainly not the only person in the same position to not have a passport or a driver's license.

A provisional driver's license only costs ~35 euro (provided you pass the test - though it's not hard) so you might find that useful.

I don't think provissional counts does it ? Even still, you're not guaranteed to get it unless you pass the test. Pretty useless to someone who doesn't drive though.

Would it depend on whoever accepts your application on whether or not an Age Card would be accepted ?

I never needed a Passport. Birth Cert at most, always got me by OK.

Did they specifically ask you for a passport?

Red Sleeping Beauty

Yes, it's passport of driver's license that is valid ID for making a claim and also for collecting it. It seems though from the two responses here that it's being waved iin some cases ?

It was in the news when it was changed there about 6weeks ago. The news reports specifically state that only passport/driver's license is valid.

http://www.welfare.ie/EN/Press/PressReleases/2009/Documents/pr060409.pdf?cssFont=+1

The above document mentions "national identity card". We don't have one but there are cards issued by various state agencies such as the Garda card , bus pass or your work card if you work for a public sector company. National Identity Card as far as I know is supposed to specifically state one's nationality on it though and only a passport does that. Drivers license is accepted I suspect because place of birth and nationality here used to be one in the same.

Well I had to sign on there about three or four weeks ago and I wasn't actually asked for any I.D. at all. I was on the Dole before though, so I had a Welfare card, and she (girl behind the counter at welfare office) made me recite my date of birth, address, etc. but never actually asked for any I.D.


I reckon you should take a shot and go down without it. It's probably just up tot eh guy or girl on the other side of the counter, whether they bother to ask for it or not.

I've been on the dole between jobs a few different times (i think I signed-on about three or four times in my life, so far) and I've only got my passport about two weeks, and never had any photographic ID before that.

IT Loser

Typical. More measures brought in to burden the decent majority. I dont have a passport and I dont have €85 to spare right now.

I am well known in my locality, but the lady in the PO is a real old stickler for "rules and regulations"....she will give me an argument, sure as shooting.

I have my safepass and my birth cert and my RSI card and that is bloody well going to have to suffice.

I will go and spend the money on a passport as soon as the money comes through. So I will satisfy their new rule as soon as they satisfy me.