TV Extra Work and the Dole

LisaMe

Hi everyone,

I've been unemployed since 2008.

For the last 2 months, I've been lucky enough to get 1 or 2 days every week or second week as a TV extra. Do I have to declare this to the dole office?

The thing is, in 2009, I did about 6 days of extra work and about 10 days of promotion work and nothing was ever said to me in the Dole office so I'm just wondering if I'm being silly declaring this year's work and getting (what I hear) €30 deducted each day I did the work? If I got that backdated, it would be about 2 weeks without Dole!

I went into the Dole office (while the people around me in the queue were all in tracksuits selling drugs!) and said it to a guy there that I did some TV extra work and he barked at me and was so nasty and said I better have a letter from the agency by Monday (this was a Friday). I said "Won't you see it through PRSI?" and he shouted "HOW ARE WE MEANT TO FIND OUT???".

Anyway just wondering if anyone who has done TV extra work has not declared it to the Dole and them not saying anything.

axel rose

Let me get this straight. I pay 51% tax to support (among other things) people in need of social welfare. You recieve JOBSEEKERS assistance. For a peroid of time you were not job seeking because you already had a job. However you still want to recieve jobseekers allowance because someone was rude to you.
Its fraud and theft. Dole is not 'free money', its provided by people who pay tax.

I went into the Dole office (while the people around me in the queue were all in tracksuits selling drugs!)

Just to add- If you consider yourself better than other people on the dole, please get over yourself. Do you expect people to sign on wearing a suit?

uoluol

The bad news is .......the dole office WILL find out you have been working. Revenue commissioners send details of people who have been paying PRSI. Sometimes these forms take a long time to come across - but they do come. If you have been found working and have not declared this, an overpayment will be raised and in certain cases your file is sent forward for prosecution.

I would advise you to contact your welfare office whenever you do get the odd day of employment. If you can't get through by phone, you can always send a letter, or I believe there is now a service where you can contact welfare by email. If your employment is fairly frequent as yours seems to be, you should easily be changed over to casual dockets. Much more convenient for you, you fill out dockets weekly, marking days of employment and unemployment and a cheque payment is then made.

Believe it or not the onus is on YOU to inform the employment office of any changes to your status, so you are most definitely in the wrong. My advice .... get down to your local office on Monday and sort out what could be a costly and potentially serious issue.

LisaMe

uoluol wrote: »

The bad news is .......the dole office WILL find out you have been working. Revenue commissioners send details of people who have been paying PRSI. Sometimes these forms take a long time to come across - but they do come. If you have been found working and have not declared this, an overpayment will be raised and in certain cases your file is sent forward for prosecution.

I would advise you to contact your welfare office whenever you do get the odd day of employment. If you can't get through by phone, you can always send a letter, or I believe there is now a service where you can contact welfare by email. If your employment is fairly frequent as yours seems to be, you should easily be changed over to casual dockets. Much more convenient for you, you fill out dockets weekly, marking days of employment and unemployment and a cheque payment is then made.

Believe it or not the onus is on YOU to inform the employment office of any changes to your status, so you are most definitely in the wrong. My advice .... get down to your local office on Monday and sort out what could be a costly and potentially serious issue.

Thanks for the advice, I'm just waiting on a letter to come in from a casting agency with the list of dates I've worked.

LisaMe

axel rose wrote: »

Just to add- If you consider yourself better than other people on the dole, please get over yourself. Do you expect people to sign on wearing a suit?

Sorry that you're so bitter against people on the dole. Trust me- the last place I want to go every month is the dole queue but I'm trying my best to get a job. I'm sure it's hard to understand if you've never experienced unemployment but it's tough out there finding a new job.

And never in my thread did I mention that I am "better" than the others in the queue. I just meant that I seemed like the only genuine jobseeker among alot of others. Again if you've never experienced the dole queue, you won't understand.

IrishTonyO

LisaMe wrote: »

Sorry that you're so bitter against people on the dole. Trust me- the last place I want to go every month is the dole queue but I'm trying my best to get a job. I'm sure it's hard to understand if you've never experienced unemployment but it's tough out there finding a new job.

And never in my thread did I mention that I am "better" than the others in the queue. I just meant that I seemed like the only genuine jobseeker among alot of others. Again if you've never experienced the dole queue, you won't understand.

Have to say it sounds like you are the one bitter against people on the dole, they are all drug dealers in tracksuits and none are looking for a job????

Balagan

Ah, don't be taking the bait!

LisaMe

IrishTonyO wrote: »

Have to say it sounds like you are the one bitter against people on the dole, they are all drug dealers in tracksuits and none are looking for a job????

Eh no didn't say that either. I said that the ones around me in the queue at that time. Again, if you've never had the experience of the Dole office, there's no point attacking a genuine jobseeker who really really does not want to be on the dole

cee_jay

Lads, nearly everyone on this thread needs to read the forum charter.

Mrs. MacGyver wrote: »

The State Benefits forum is for the discussion of Benefits available within the Republic of Ireland from the Irish Government and it's agencies.

Before you post in this forum here are a few simple rules that must be adhered to in order to ensure that each person feels at home here:


3. Please be tactful when replying to posts, remember that people are here to seek advice and may be in a very difficult personal situation. Any advice given should be mature, constructive and non-abusive. Excessive sarkiness & bullying will not be tolerated

6 - There is Zero Tolerance for posters being critical of those on benefits either individual posters or benefit claimants as a group.

7 - Do not advocate, hint at, mention, talk about or otherwise mention any method of defrauding the Welfare or Health Board.

Thread is being locked at the request of the OP - sorry you did not get the replies you were looking for, but take uoluol's advice - not declaring work to the department is Social Welfare fraud.

Everyone else, please be more tactful in future. It is not a forum to criticise people in receipt of social assistance - that also goes to the OP.

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