do i declare this?

snowy2008

i was let go from my job a few months ago and ive been claiming jsa. anyway, im a part time wedding singer and ive been offered a few nixers with a band and we've started to really get the ball rolling but its only for a little while, should i call them and tell them i have a few nixers, i just dont want to get into trouble, thanks

AARRRGH

Well, technically you should...

OLP

Nah don't bother

jhegarty

Yes you should.

Anything else and you could get yourself in heaps of trouble.

snowy2008

so even if it is only a nixer? will i lose the jsa?

pebbles21

Unless your doing a gig for your local social welfare xmas party dont bother!

niceirishfella

If you are being paid cash in hand, the likeyhood is that you will never be caught.
However, morally and legally you should declare your earnings.

CamperMan

you could get caught out and if you do.. you will probably get the JSA cut.

best thing to do is to let the dole know what you are going to or have done and how much you earnt....

I don't see why us tax payers should support people on JSA that go doing nixers. :mad:

donkey balls

if the gigs are on a sunday you dont have to tell them if its mon-sat you do as thats how your jsa is paid.

talk to your local office its not as if your going be giging 8hrs a night mon-sat

the_syco

Declare it. As a brickie doing nixers, you'll know who you'd be working for, but as a wedding singer, you'll be singing to the couple getting married, plus 100 or so people. Let them know.

Tigger

donkey balls wrote: »

if the gigs are on a sunday you dont have to tell them if its mon-sat you do as thats how your jsa is paid.

talk to your local office its not as if your going be giging 8hrs a night mon-sat

so i can work every sunday and gfpo on the jsa?

maddogcollins

I would return it. I know of someone who was doing a "nixer" and was approached after a gig. The person who approached "wanted to book him for a party". After asking the normal questions like how much he charged, did they have many bookings coming up, they exchanged numbers. Received a phonecall from revenue on Monday. Revenue are now checking notice boards of shopping centres, online sites and many other places to find these people doing nixers.

Better safe than sorry.

donkey balls

Tigger wrote: »

so i can work every sunday and gfpo on the jsa?

the answer to the above question is yes i was made redundant last year i have since being doing agency work, the dole office told me that they pay you mon-sat and they dont care if you work sunday.(as they pay you mon-sat)

i still pay tax&prsi and the days i work are deducted from my jsa/jsb its not ideal i would rather be working full time but its better than doing nothing siting at home going stir crazy