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Lower JA rate?

  • 14-04-2010 6:21pm
    #1
    t_rizzle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭


    I was collecting jobseekers allowance for 8 months on the full rate before i started my job. I am 22 at the moment and have been working for a year and four months im wondering if i was to sign on now would i be on the lower rate?


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  • #2
    Balagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Balagan


    Looks like lower rate will apply as it's more than 12 months since initial claim.


    From http://www.welfare.ie/EN/Publications/sw19/Pages/sw19_sect6.aspx

    Under 25 rates for Jobseeker’s Allowance

    Persons not affected:

    * 18 to 24 year olds with a qualified child;
    * those transferring to Jobseeker’s Allowance immediately after exhausting their entitlement to Jobseeker’s Benefit;
    * those making a claim for Jobseeker’s Allowance where that claim is linked to a Jobseeker’s Allowance claim made within the previous 12 months to which the maximum personal rate applied;
    * those transferring directly to Jobseeker’s Allowance from Disability Allowance.

    Where a person is in receipt of a rate of Jobseeker’s Allowance applicable to persons aged under 25 (as outlined in the table on page 45) and he or she participates in a course of education, training or Community Employment, the full normal rate of payment applicable to that course/scheme applies without any reduction for persons aged under 25.

    Where a person is under 25 and has completed such a course of education, training or Community Employment, they will revert to the age related rate of Jobseeker’s Allowance, €100.00 or €150.00, if they had previously been in receipt of that rate.


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