Does DA replace your part of spouses's JSA?

wellbutty

A married family member was made unemployed and was getting €330 a week JSA.

His wife, who has never worked, has just started getting disability allowance of €204 a week and therefore the Social Welfare have cut his JSA to €204 (i.e. that of a single man).

They thought that you were paid for not having a job first (i.e. €330) and then paid on your inability to work (a further €204)!

Is this correct???????????????

Jarren

wellbutty wrote: »

A married family member was made unemployed and was getting €330 a week JSA.

His wife, who has never worked, has just started getting disability allowance of €204 a week and therefore the Social Welfare have cut his JSA to €204 (i.e. that of a single man).

They thought that you were paid for not having a job first (i.e. €330) and then paid on your inability to work (a further €204)!

Is this correct???????????????

Income from spouse's/partner's work

If your spouse/partner works it can affect your Disability Allowance.

Since 26 September 2007, your spouse’s/partner’s weekly earnings are assessed as follows:

Weekly earnings are gross earnings less PRSI, superannuation and union dues.

€20 euro per day (up to a maximum of €60) from work is deducted from your spouse's/partner's average weekly earnings and then 60% of the balance is assessed as weekly means. The weekly means is then deducted from the combined total of your personal rate of Disability Allowance and the maximum Increase for a Qualified Adult.

If you were getting Disability Allowance before 26 September 2007 and you are still in payment on the 26 September, your spouse's/partner's earnings will be assessed under the new means assessment to find out if you are better off. If you would get a greater amount of Disability Allowance on the previous assessment then you will continue to be assessed using the previous method of calculating means from employment.

If your spouse's/partner's means have changed, for any reason since the 26 September 2007, you cannot apply the previous method of calculating means from employment.

Rates
From January 2009, the weekly maximum rate of Disability Allowance is:

Personal rate (claimant)

€204.30 (maximum rate)

Qualified adult €135.60 (maximum rate)
Qualified child
€26 (full-rate)

€13 (half-rate)

If you are married or living with someone as husband and wife and you both qualify for Disability Allowance, you will each get a weekly personal rate of Disability Allowance.

If you or your spouse or partner qualifies for Disability Allowance and the other is getting another social welfare payment, you will each get the weekly personal rate of your respective payment.

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/social-welfare/social-welfare-payments/disability-and-illness/disability_allowance

Xiney

They're still better off, so there's no sense in complaining