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Leaving the country - cancel claim?

  • 26-07-2009 4:58pm
    #1
    spiritcrusher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭


    OK, I've a question for you people who may have a better understanding of the system:

    Applied for JSA end of may, in Galway.
    Had a means test a week later.
    Had a meeting with an inspector there last week in the office but I had changed address so she called down to see me at the house, which I'm not paying rent in, it's a friends place, but that didn't seem to be any problem and she was happy that I'm living there.
    In the meantime she said go back to the CWO and try and get some payment (I'd already gotten two payments before I changed address).

    Now I'm actually heading to Canada in two weeks time so I'm going to have to go back in and tell them this and I'm guessing cancel my claim. I'll be gone for 2 months.

    My question is what's going to happen with the back pay I should be getting (approx 6 weeks worth)? Will I still get it? Will the cheque be posted to my last address? Any other scenarios?


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


    If you're going to Canada to work, you'll have to sign off.

    If you're going to Canada for a holiday, you'll have to inform them of this. You're actually entitled to two weeks' holiday per year, and they simply don't pay you for any extra holidays you take. So in this case your claim would remain open, although you wouldn't get paid for 6 out of the 8 weeks. When you get back you'll continue getting payment.


  • #3
    tommy21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭tommy21


    Hey Xiney, your a goldmine of info on these matters! If SpiritCrusher is gone for two months though (and in effect signs off and lets them know say tomorrow) will he still get the money from those six weeks where he had no work and was looking? Or once he says hes signing off, all bets are off?


  • #4
    Xiney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,085 ✭✭✭Xiney


    He will still get the money - I don't know when but it's not his fault they didn't give it to him from the first week as they would have done in times past.

    I'm not sure how it would work. But if he's entitled to it he's entitled to it.


  • #5
    dobsdave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,814 ✭✭✭dobsdave


    I'm in a similar position.
    I signed off last Wednesday week to start a job the following Tuesday.

    The guy in the office took my bank account details and said the money would go in straight to the account.

    I presumed it would go in on my normal 'pay day' which was yesterday, but no sign of it yet.


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