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Fuel Allowance

  • 09-09-2010 07:51AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭


    Does anyone know when you receive payment for fuel allowance, I applied and sent in my form, havent received it yet.

    Thanks.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭cee_jay


    September/October to around April/May.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭SuperTyper


    Tks a mill:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,784 ✭✭✭redzerdrog


    how much is the fuel allowence?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭SuperTyper


    AFAIK it is 20 euro pw


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


    fuel allowance is running from the 30/09/10.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭danois


    dont forget that if you are in a smokeless fuel area you can claim a smokeless fuel allowance its an extra €3 ish not a lot i know but every little helps:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 412 ✭✭Vanhalla


    can anyone on jobseekers claim for this. my house does be cold


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Cliona99


    As far as I can tell, it depends on what benefits you're receiving and for how long.

    www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/social-welfare/social-welfare-payments/extra-social-welfare-benefits/fuel_allowance


  • Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    When is the winter fuel allowance coming back?

    And what has happened to the extra help that was promised to co act against the increases for the Carbon Tax as promised in the budget?


    Thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 Bcommercial


    I think if you're on job-seekers you have to be long term unemployed over 15 months before you can apply. It was 20 euro/wk but after the Gorm's new carbon tax came in it was said that allowance would be made for this increase in the fuel allowance ...however have heard nothing about this since (why am I not surprised!)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭Darlughda


    Does not apply if you are in a shared household, unless all tenants qualify for rent allowance i.e., be in receipt of the required social welfare stuff.

    Even still under those circumstances, it would be fuel allowance per household, not individual.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭gustafo


    Darlughda wrote: »
    Does not apply if you are in a shared household, unless all tenants qualify for rent allowance i.e., be in receipt of the required social welfare stuff.

    Thats not true i know friends who got it last year in a house and only 2 of them were on the dole 2 others were working full time, maybe when applying they didn't put all the correct facts on the form !!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭User Friendly


    gustafo wrote: »
    Darlughda wrote: »
    Does not apply if you are in a shared household, unless all tenants qualify for rent allowance i.e., be in receipt of the required social welfare stuff.

    Thats not true i know friends who got it last year in a house and only 2 of them were on the dole 2 others were working full time, maybe when applying they didn't put all the correct facts on the form !!!!
    :confused:
    sorry,not any wiser after that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,150 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    yabadabado wrote: »
    fuel allowance is running from the 30/09/10.

    Is this confirmed? the last update on the social welfares site dates back to 2009? why does this not surprise me?

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭Fran79


    Hi
    got my fuel allowance today with my dole. Got 20euro

    So should be there for you too this week.

    Fran


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭marlie2005


    Hi,

    Was down in the post office this morning and was hoping i might get my fuel allowance this week but i didn't.
    Do we have to re-apply or is it from next week in the wexford area?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭gustafo


    marlie2005 wrote: »
    Hi,

    Was down in the post office this morning and was hoping i might get my fuel allowance this week but i didn't.
    Do we have to re-apply or is it from next week in the wexford area?

    i didn't get mine also even though this is my first year applying for it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭chasm


    I'm open to correction here but i think the reason some people received the payment this week and some did not is due to the fact that some payments are paid weekly in advance (like disability allowance for instance) and some payments are paid weekly in arrears (like JA and JB).

    So those paid in arrears should get it next week, as the payment starts on the first payment week in september, hope this helps;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭Fran79


    Hi
    Chasm - I'm on JSA and got it this week. First time I ever got it too.


    Don't know whats going on.

    Fran


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,150 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Fran79 wrote: »
    Hi
    Chasm - I'm on JSA and got it this week. First time I ever got it too.


    Don't know whats going on.

    Fran

    Me Too, got it for the first time this week on applying a couple of weeks ago so there may be an issue with those who did not recieve it as they had expected to. I believe if you had previously been in receipt of the allowance and circumstances have not change, the payment is automatic and rolled over for the following year. Maybe worth investigating for those who did not get it and had expected it.

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭SuperTyper


    Got mine today, tks for the replies.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,099 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    No sign of the Fuel allowance today, made some enquiries and the application is just held up in the queue of paperwork!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭marlie2005


    No sign of mine either yesterday, so i rang the office seems like they cut me off from it and i had to re-apply again..
    forms are sent off for the second time lets hope it might come through next week..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 jon dory


    Does anyone know if you are on Jobseekers Benefit and in receipt of Supplimentry Welfare from HSE and Live alone if you get Fuel allowance. the welfare website seems to indicate you do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭cee_jay


    jon dory wrote: »
    Does anyone know if you are on Jobseekers Benefit and in receipt of Supplimentry Welfare from HSE and Live alone if you get Fuel allowance. the welfare website seems to indicate you do.

    No. Jobseeker's Benefit is not a qualifying scheme for fuel allowance.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 jon dory


    cAr0l wrote: »
    No. Jobseeker's Benefit is not a qualifying scheme for fuel allowance.

    But if iyou are in receipt on Supplementary Welfare and live alone as per the welfare website rules are you not entitled to it, as it does not state long term JSA and Sup Welfare but JSA or Sup Welfare?
    Rules

    You may qualify for a fuel allowance if you are getting:
    • Basic Supplementary Welfare Allowance
    • Social Security Pension from an EE/EEA country or a country with whom Ireland has a bilateral social security agreement
    • Special Department of Defence Allowance
    • You are taking part in Back to Work Allowance (BTWA), Back to Work Enterprise Allowance (BTWEA), Rural Social Scheme, Revenue Job Assist or FÁS Community Employment and are entitled to keep your secondary benefits
    And
    You live alone or only with:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭cee_jay


    I don't know why you would be getting both Jobseeker's benefit and Supplementary Welfare. But as you are getting the 2 payments, they look at what 2 they are. As it is Jobseeker's Benefit is your main payment, there is no fuel entitlement on JSB, so you wouldn't be entitled to fuel.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,150 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    cAr0l wrote: »
    I don't know why you would be getting both Jobseeker's benefit and Supplementary Welfare. But as you are getting the 2 payments, they look at what 2 they are. As it is Jobseeker's Benefit is your main payment, there is no fuel entitlement on JSB, so you wouldn't be entitled to fuel.

    Agreed, I was also confused about how two payments were being given, particularly as the contributor is living alone. Fuel allowance is not payable to those on JSB. Mine ran out in May and i went onto JSA, i was notified about 6 weeks ago that i may be entitled to fuel allowance, completed the form and it was paid for the past two weeks.

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭battries not included


    I'm on BTEA and I applied few weeks ago for fuel allowance, do they send a letter stating if you get it or not?

    thnks


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