Anyone get SW to pay for private course

poppyfields

Hi,

Not sure is this the right place to post, but sure I'll ask anyways. Back in June I approached Social Welfare about doing a webdesign course which was run by a private individual over the course of a weekend. The job facilator eventually agreed that I could do it and they would pay three quarters. She told me it would take a month to pay and that they would pay company directly.

The course was great and I was able to build my own website. But the poor lady who taught the course it still waiting to be paid. I'm so embarrassed over this as she is a friend of friends and I know she could badly do with the money.

I keep ringing the faciltator and she is giving me the run around big time and is been very rude to me on the phone. Should it take over two months to be paid?

eth0_

What on earth are the social welfare doing spending taxpayer's money on a course like this? They should only be sending you to properly certified courses, not to a "friend of a friend"!

But obviously if your facilitator approved the course then the trainer should be paid. Do you have anything in writing showing they agreed to pay for the course?

poppyfields

It was a proper course and I did learn a lot from it. Actually today I found out that I had secured a job off the back of this course. My new employer was very impressed with the fact that I am a accountant and can now build them a new website.

I really take offence at the tax payers money bit. I wanted to do a course that would make me stand out from the rest and I don't think that 150 euro from the social welfare is too much to ask for. I have paid a lot of tax in my working life. I feel I have every right to claim JB while I have been looking for work. I needed a intensive two day course and to be honest with you Fas have given me no support when I keep asking to be put forward for courses. Yesterday for example I spoke to three different Fas people who gave me the total run around. I would also like to point out that I contributed towards the cost of the course. I would also like to point out that here in rural Ireland that courses do not run during the summer so I feel like I was showing some initiative in doing a course that might secure me some employment and get me back paying some tax to help out the people that badly need it.

I am entitled to claim mortage allowance which I don't. I am entitled to claim a lot of things which I don't. I will be relieved when I go in to sign off from SW

When I go back to work I will remember the horrible time I had struggling on SW and I won't be tut tutting at the tax payers money going towards educating our unemployed to get them back into the workplace.

eth0_

Hey, way to COMPLETELY miss my point.

I said it was out of order that the social welfare are paying for UNCERTIFIED COURSES, not that they are paying for people to go on courses in general!

cronos

Ethos point was you should have been doing one of these courses. http://www.ecollege.ie/site/pages/categories/CatWebDesign.html

The reason that ur getting the run around might be that the person in SW worked out that they should not have allowed you to go on a course which was not on their website.

poppyfields

I looked into that ecollege learning but they were not suited to my needs for webdesign.They have some good courses and I have just paid up to do payroll.

From the welfare website http://www.welfare.ie/EN/Schemes/BackToEducation/Pages/Education,TrainingandDevelopment%28ETD%29Option.aspx

Under this scheme I was entitled to get this course. It's since been paid for this week.

eth0_

You did a webdesign course and now you're learning how to do payroll? As a matter of interest are you trying to change career as those are two very different skills to train on.

Moonbeam

Out of interest why would an accountant do a payroll course?