Am I entitled to social welfare whilst doing a training course outside of FAS?

Giz a job

If I pay a high fee to train for a course for a few months and get no payment from the company I am training with am I entitled to any form of benefits? Obviously my first choice would be to get a part time job, which is not easy at the moment, but surely they wouldn't let someone live off fresh air, would they?

Jarren

All training courses need to be approved by a job facilitator if you are to receive Jobseeker's Allowance/Jobseeker's Benefit while attending them. One of the criteria is that the course must clearly increase your employment prospects.

http://www.welfare.ie/en/publications/sw70/Pages/BacktoEducationProgramme.aspx

Giz a job

jarecki1976 wrote: »

All training courses need to be approved by a job facilitator if you are to receive Jobseeker's Allowance/Jobseeker's Benefit while attending them. One of the criteria is that the course must clearly increase your employment prospects.

http://www.welfare.ie/en/publications/sw70/Pages/BacktoEducationProgramme.aspx

Thanks, but is that link only for courses that social welfare have provided?

I'm going to be starting a hairdressing course soon, which I won't recieve any funding, does that type of course count though?

ann100

Hi
I am the same.
I am unemployed for over 2 years and am receiving the jobseekers allowance and in 2006 i did a fetac level 5 business secretarial course

Now I would love to do a hairressing or beautician course
I was thinking of doing a hairdressing course in either

1. College of Hairdressing - Connaught. Kiltartan House. Forster Street. Galway, course fee €8,000

2. The Academy Deane Hair Design-kILDARE course fee €8,000

Or

beautician course in MTB Portlaoise College of Beauty and Complimentary Therapies Church Street, Portlaoise, Co. Laois Course fee €5850

All of these course are full time
would i still get my jobseekers allowance payment or some other payment instead


Any info would be very helpful
Thanks

Moonbeam

if you are so free for work you can not get jsa/jsb.
If you are doing a full tiem course you are not free for work.

You could do it somewhere like www.scd.ie or I think crumlin colege do it too or an apprentice in hair dressing or the fas hair dressing course to start.

Sparky J

jarecki1976 wrote: »

All training courses need to be approved by a job facilitator if you are to receive Jobseeker's Allowance/Jobseeker's Benefit while attending them. One of the criteria is that the course must clearly increase your employment prospects.

I am looking at doing two short courses- one is 8 days (split into two 4's with a week between) the other is 10 days (split into two 5's with a week between), both cost about €2k each.

The first is a FAS/Fetac level 6 which I may get some percentage funding for but the other is not a FAS course which I will be funding from my savings.
I intend to go out on my own after I pass these with the Short Term Back to Work assistance.

As I will be unable to collect my JB in post office for 4 weeks (not consecutively), just wondering how the SW deals with this.
Can they pay direct into a bank account in this instance or can they roll up one weeks payments until I collect the following week?