social welfare entitlements

jimbo007

hello,

a friend of mine has asked for help. she's working on a contract where she's out sick and is not entitled to sick pay. she also has a daughter (single parent). does anybody know what she's entitled to? I understand she can use a cert from the doctor weekly to get payments from social welfare.

Thanks!

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

yabadabado

jimbo007 wrote: »

hello,

a friend of mine has asked for help. she's working on a contract where she's out sick and is not entitled to sick pay. she also has a daughter (single parent). does anybody know what she's entitled to? I understand she can use a cert from the doctor weekly to get payments from social welfare.

Thanks!

she needs to get a social welfare cert from her doctor and bring it into her local social welfare office.she will then get a illness benefit claim processed and will need to get a cert from her doctor every week she is absent from work.

cee_jay

She may also have an entitlement to One Parent Family - you can receive full rate One Parent Family and half rate Illness Benefit together, so she should apply for that scheme also.

finni S

hi ,i need some advice and reading your answers to others you know what your talking about,to begin, i had a fulltime job and worked untill november 09 when my mother un fortunately suffered a stroke,ive since looked after her and my dad doing the cleaning ,shopping ,cooking and bringing them to and from hospital/doctors,ect,i also must say my dad is on invalidity pension, my mum did all for him ,and being the only girl everything is left for me to do, anyway i applied for carers benefit in november havent heard a thing since, our family gp said he would help and put me on the sick as he said i would need some kind of income but its not very much, is the waiting time normal for carers benefit to come through ,thanks

saffi

i have lived in uk for 38 years. have moved all my stuff back to ireland, but not yet there. i am on benefits in uk (Disability living allowance & incapacity benefit- neither transferable I believe) as i have parkinson's disease. will be renting out flat in london so will have approx £500 month. rest goes to sister as rent for shared house we own but she does not live there.

virtually no savings.

very worried