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On BTEA, will i get reduced rate JSA during summer?

  • 05-05-2010 6:46pm
    #1
    Swamps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭


    Well im currently in college and doing my exams at the end of may and am also on the BTEA.

    I was wondering when my exams finish for this year, I still have one year left to do after the summer. Will i receive a reduced rate of payment in JSA to go with my age during the summer before I go back in september, which is 21 so €100 or will i receive the max €196 due to the fact I have been unemployed in a sense since I came off it last august 2009 and it was before the december 2009 deadline rule they have. Or maybe due to the fact im on BTEA be entitled to the max anyway?

    Im going to be looking for work obviously too but just to be sure

    Thanks


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  • #2
    tenchi-fan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭tenchi-fan


    You can't claim btea but you may be entitled to JSA (means tested) or JSB (if you paid enough contributions)


  • #3
    Balagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Balagan


    You are likely to be returned to whatever payment level you were on prior to BTEA commencing e.g., if you were on an age reduced payment, you will get that again for the summer, and if you were on full payment, Euro 196 (now Euro 188) then that will be the amount, assuming of course that you prove your means remain the same if you are on JSA.

    from http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/unemployed_people/jobseekers_allowance.html

    Exceptions to age related Jobseeker's Allowance payments for people under 25

    The reduced age related personal and qualified adult rates of Jobseeker’s Allowance for claimants under 25 years of age do not apply in the following cases:

    * Claimants with dependent children
    * People transferring to Jobseeker’s Allowance immediately after finishing their entitlement to Jobseeker’s Benefit
    * People transferring from Disability Allowance to Jobseeker’s Allowance
    * Where an existing Jobseeker’s Allowance claimant is assessed at the higher rate of allowance gets work but loses that job and is back on Jobseeker’s Allowance within 12 months
    * People under 25 participating in a course of education, training or Community Employment. However, when the course ends you will return to an age related JA payment, if you were getting one before you started the course.
    * You were at least 20 years of age on 30 December 2009 and became unemployed on or before 30 December 2009
    * You were 18 or 19 on 30 December 2009 and you became unemployed on or before 29 April 2009
    * You are 22 to 24 and taking part in the Work Placement Programme run by FÁS


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