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Finances available for students during summer

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  • 19-05-2010 11:43am
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    Bubblesgalway
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    Have been trying to get a job for the last 4 months but no result is there any finance available to help me get through the summer without having to move back home? Thanks for any information provided


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    dotsflan
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    Bubblesgalway wrote: »
    Have been trying to get a job for the last 4 months but no result is there any finance available to help me get through the summer without having to move back home? Thanks for any information provided

    as far as i know theres nothing! unless you have been recieving BTEA, Im in the same boat:(


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    fillefatale
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    Are students entitled to the dole? I've heard this from a few people. I've just graduated and am struggling to find even summer work.


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    dotsflan
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    fillefatale wrote: »
    Are students entitled to the dole? I've heard this from a few people. I've just graduated and am struggling to find even summer work.

    yeah i think once your finished in education your entitled to claim because your available for work


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    sky88
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    im in the same boat no money coming at all and i keep hearing we could get jobseekers allowence from social welfare but just dont know


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    therokerroar
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    sky88 wrote: »
    im in the same boat no money coming at all and i keep hearing we could get jobseekers allowence from social welfare but just dont know

    I think you have to be out of full-time education for three months before you can get JSA, purely to stop students claiming whilst their on Summer Holidays.


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    dotsflan
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    therokerroar wrote: »
    I think you have to be out of full-time education for three months before you can get JSA, purely to stop students claiming whilst their on Summer Holidays.

    no im fairly sure once your finished college you can claim the dole, you have to wait 3 months if you have just come out of secondary school. there was a rise in may for people signing on and the government put it down to the fact the it was students who had just completed college


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    NeonAddict
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    dotsflan wrote: »
    no im fairly sure once your finished college you can claim the dole, you have to wait 3 months if you have just come out of secondary school. there was a rise in may for people signing on and the government put it down to the fact the it was students who had just completed college

    what if your goin back to college after the summer?


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    RoyalMarine
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    NeonAddict wrote: »
    what if your goin back to college after the summer?

    well, to put it blunt, your fu*ked.

    There is nothing available for students for the summer unless your very very very lucky to get a part time / full time job, which is more or less impossible concidering the situation with the country right now.


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    Gurgle
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    RoyalMarineComm wrote: »
    There is nothing available for students for the summer unless your very very very lucky to get a part time / full time job, which is more or less impossible concidering the situation with the country right now.
    Is the student summer job scheme still on the go?
    (Or was that axed during the boom?)

    -edit- Ah, thrown out in 2003. You're fcuked.


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    El Siglo
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    I'm living up in Dublin at the moment doing my thesis work for my MSc, I'm living on around €40/week, it's fucking awful so it is.


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    rantyface
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    I'm back with the parents, babysitting and teaching piano and enjoying the sun. I'm also learning to drive and losing weight. If it wasn't sunny I'd be totally miserable because I'd have no money to do anything. I couldn't afford to live away from home at the moment, I think you should move back asap and save what little money you do have for enjoyable things rather than groceries and ESB. Anyone who is hiring wants the very best graduates.

    Last minute LC grinds if you do one of the subjects they finish on? Teach an instrument to beginners? If you put up lots of babysitting ads you will get clients. I even do short shifts while they're at the gym or shopping and I charge a tenner.

    One industry that is doing well is beauty and hairdressing around where I am on the northside of Dublin, they're all hiring. I'd say it's similar everywhere.


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