Job seekers benefit at xmas,double?

CurtisPadd

Hi,
just wondering do the unemployed get any extra payment at xmas?
PC

digme

lol youll get a huge bonus for pressies

Qwerty27

Yes, YULE get a huge bonus for pressies!

You should be in line for a post of the year award!

cee_jay

This is not After Hours. Keep posts on topic and do not post if you cannot help the OP.

No OP, the Christmas bonus was scrapped last year.

In these recessionary times there's not a snowball's chance in hell of the bonus.

Nolanger

Go to the Health Board and ask for a one-off emergency Xmas payment.

ricman

i think you can get a xmas hamper from vincent de paul, if you really need it, theres a limited amount the give out.

midgej

CurtisPadd wrote: »

Hi,
just wondering do the unemployed get any extra payment at xmas?
PC

Apparently up until the year before last there was a double payment at Christmas, they cut it out last year, I'd say there's no hope of it ever being re-instated.

The_Conductor

The Department of Social Protection have already announced that the practice of a 'double payment' at Christmas is not to be resumed. Sorry.

Bluetonic

The only jobseekers payment which ever received a double payment was Jobseekers Allowance. It was never payable to those on Jobseekers Benefit.

The_Conductor

Bluetonic wrote: »

The only jobseekers payment which ever received a double payment was Jobseekers Allowance. It was never payable to those on Jobseekers Benefit.

It was also paid on all State pensions.

Jambo221

I get paid by Post Office and I'm wondering how payment over Xmas will work, should be getting one on Tuesday the 28th of December, but according to An Post all offices will be closed until the Thursday.

Max Power1

Bluetonic wrote: »

The only jobseekers payment which ever received a double payment was Jobseekers Allowance. It was never payable to those on Jobseekers Benefit.

Just another example of the ridiculous standard of SW payment systems in ireland. So someone who works for 15 years, pays PRSI etc, then gets let go, and is entitled to JSB based on stamps, got nothing, whereas the likes of "johno" in ballymun who signs on at 17 straight out of school gets an xmas bonus? Shocking. Absolutely and totally vile imo.

Jambo221 wrote: »

I get paid by Post Office and I'm wondering how payment over Xmas will work, should be getting one on Tuesday the 28th of December, but according to An Post all offices will be closed until the Thursday.

AFAIK there is a double payment paid the week before Xmas and then no payment the next week. IE double payment on the week of the 20th and no payment the week of the 27th.

tiger2

Not going to happen as the country cant afford it - has already been ruled out in any case

yermin

There was never a 'christmas bonus' of double payment... there was a christmas bonus, which was NOT a double payment, which stopped in 2008, and I'm fairly sure it wasn't anywhere near a double up. There is always a week just before Xmas that pays double simply because you don't get paid the following week as the post office is closed and it's convenient for all concerned. Even people who have been on JA have been wrong about this, I had a friend who thought his double week was a bonus and was lucky to be told it wasn't so before he went out and did anything rash.

danjo-xx

yermin wrote: »

There was never a 'christmas bonus' of double payment... there was a christmas bonus, which was NOT a double payment, which stopped in 2008, and I'm fairly sure it wasn't anywhere near a double up. There is always a week just before Xmas that pays double simply because you don't get paid the following week as the post office is closed and it's convenient for all concerned. Even people who have been on JA have been wrong about this, I had a friend who thought his double week was a bonus and was lucky to be told it wasn't so before he went out and did anything rash.

thats some bump of a thread:D

It started out as a 'double week' but was then gradually reduced to a percentage of your weeks pay.

Was usually paid 1st week in December so you could get shopping.

http://www.independent.ie/business/budget/news/fears-grow-over-bonus-christmas-welfare-payments-26487671.html

Balagan

yermin wrote: »

There was never a 'christmas bonus' of double payment... there was a christmas bonus, which was NOT a double payment, which stopped in 2008, and I'm fairly sure it wasn't anywhere near a double up. There is always a week just before Xmas that pays double simply because you don't get paid the following week as the post office is closed and it's convenient for all concerned. Even people who have been on JA have been wrong about this, I had a friend who thought his double week was a bonus and was lucky to be told it wasn't so before he went out and did anything rash.

There was indeed, in the boom days, a bonus payment of a full extra week's social welfare money at Chrismas! It ceased in 2008. Last year, recipients got paid two weeks and then one week and then a week without payment. It was somewhat confusing. Best to wait until the Department publishes its payment plans for this Christmas.

dave1982

Mr Kenny assures us we are out of the recession employment is on the up, maybe they will give back the bonus.

Iceland can give out 24K to people with mortgages, surely Enda can hand out €180

Lapin

dave1982 wrote: »

Mr Kenny assures us we are out of the recession employment is on the up, maybe they will give back the bonus.

Iceland can give out 24K to people with mortgages, surely Enda can hand out €180

2 hopes.

Anyone know if they same arrangements apply to those on Back to Education allowance?

The_Conductor

Lapin wrote: »

2 hopes.

Anyone know if they same arrangements apply to those on Back to Education allowance?

Normally there is an amended payment schedule to take into account no payment over the Christmas/New Year period. This can be an early payment- or a late payment, both have happened in the past. There is no point in speculating though- wait until the circular comes out (probably later this week).

kerryguy78

Someone on matt cooper this evening saying it would be a great idea to bring back the social welfare xmas bonus, are these people bananas??? Anyone that thinks this is a good idea is clearly insane.......................

danjo-xx

kerryguy78 wrote: »

Someone on matt cooper this evening saying it would be a great idea to bring back the social welfare xmas bonus, are these people bananas??? Anyone that thinks this is a good idea is clearly insane.......................

Well I'm insane so....... if the ceo's of charity organizations and the board members of banks can get pension top ups for getting all of us into this mess in the first place, then I why not the ordinary folk on welfare get a 'tiny' top up as we are the folk that have suffered the most and paying for this bailout while those that got us into this mess STILL PARTY ON....:mad:

kerryguy78

danjo-xx wrote: »

Well I'm insane so....... if the ceo's of charity organizations and the board members of banks can get pension top ups for getting all into this mess in the first place, then I way not the ordinary folk on welfare get a 'tiny' top up as we are the folk that have suffered the most and paying for this bailout while those that got us into this mess STILL PARTY ON....:mad:

yes you do make a good point, these ceo's should be ashamed of themselves. but the goverment should look after the ordinary workers who are getting us out of this mess and stop taxing our well earned bonuses.

danjo-xx

were way off topic here, really should be taken to the economy or politic's forum:)

Celly Smunt

Jesus that bonus was rediculous.If fianna fail had any moral obligation to society it would never have been introduced and instead a charitable donation from the state to SVP over christmas shouldve been in place so those who actually needed it, got it.

danjo-xx

Celly Smunt wrote: »

Jesus that bonus was rediculous.If fianna fail had any moral obligation to society it would never have been introduced and instead a charitable donation from the state to SVP over christmas shouldve been in place so those who actually needed it, got it.

Unfortunately we don't have a society or community here anymore sadly... all we have now is AN ECONOMY :mad:


Just look at the savage cuts to people on disability or dying of cancer etc.

FreshKnickers

Celly Smunt wrote: »

a charitable donation from the state to SVP over christmas shouldve been in place so those who actually needed it, got it.

SVP could be a bit better at deciding whom to give to. A neighbour of a friend of mine went begging to SVP and was bragging about getting vouchers off them. "Ye have to know what to say to these ______" apparently.

Two months earlier she'd bought herself a new telly, new phone, a lamp she told us all cost €200 and a toy for one of her grandchildren that had a price sticker of €275 on it.

bigneacy

FreshKnickers wrote: »

SVP could be a bit better at deciding whom to give to. A neighbour of a friend of mine went begging to SVP and was bragging about getting vouchers off them. "Ye have to know what to say to these ______" apparently.

Two months earlier she'd bought herself a new telly, new phone, a lamp she told us all cost €200 and a toy for one of her grandchildren that had a price sticker of €275 on it.

Jaysus, I'd say the curtains never stop twitching in your "friend's" house do they?

OP, no- no double payment. You get an advance payment the week before and no payment Xmas week. Resuming as scheduled the following week.