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Welfare claims

  • 25-08-2010 03:09PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭


    I don't know where to post this but I'm sure if this is the wrong place someone here will know where it goes and move it maybe, anyway

    I've just been unlucky enough to be out of work at the moment and my girlfriend and I have just had our first baby, and we're stuck at the minute with no work and were wondering what exactly we're entitled to? We're not claiming as single mother living on her own while I realistically live there full time.

    Citizen Info that we went to didn't really give us a lot of info, as I keep being told we should be getting this and should be getting that?

    All advice would be great, hopefully I won't need it for long


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,639 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster




  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Moved from AH.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 610 ✭✭✭Clauric


    Your options are not much. You could go down to the CWO, and ask for some help, but they might not be of much help. I would apply for FIS and/or Rent Allowance. If you moved out, she might get One Parent Family Payments. Apart from that, she will be entitled to Child Benefit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,595 ✭✭✭✭yabadabado


    apply for child benefit straightaway.if neither of you are working you cannot recieve fis.if one or both of you are claiming jobseekers benefit/allowance get the child added to the claim(its €29.80 per week).


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