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Wait period for 'Voluntary Departure'

  • 27-10-2009 1:01pm
    #1
    cafecolour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭


    I've been told there's a 9 week wait period after you quit your job for the dole. Does this mean you quit, go to the office and sign-on and then they wait 9 weeks (not taking in account processing time) to get a check? Or are you supposed to wait 9 weeks after quitting before you even go to the office?


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


    go in the first day you are unemployed.

    since you are leaving your job voluntarily, sw can choose to disqualify you from payment for up to 9 weeks, but they may not disqualify you at all (depending on your reasons for leaving) and they may not disqualify you for the full 9 weeks.


  • #3
    cafecolour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭cafecolour


    Thanks. Basically my plan was to quit my job and head elsewhere (I'm thinking Germany) to find another job. The dole is my back up plan if I fail to get work and run out of money (I have enough savings for a month or two).

    So I'd quit my job and go to the dole office and apply. It'll probably take at least 2 months to process me anyway. I'll head to Germany and hopefully get a job - in which case I'll contact the dole office and tell them to cancel my application. If I can't find anything, I'll come back and get the dole while I look for work again here.

    This seems legitimate to me (I'll be looking for work, just not here). Do you think the social welfare office would frown upon it?


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