Couple Quick Questions Please

shocksy

Hello there.

Sorry for my ignorance on this subject and i hope someone can help me out with regards to the following.

I am currently unemployed and quite franky sick and tired of it at this stage and cant get a job anywhere.

I have the opportunity to go and work abroad in a resort in Spain for the summer which im strongly considering doing.

My only concern is that if i do go and return to Ireland when the summer season ends over there how would i stand on getting back onto the jobseekers allowance, i often see people on here refer to habitual residence, would that affect you even if you are only out of the country for 3 months or so?

Any one other small thing, as far as i know, most work in these resorts are just paid in hand, so you wouldn't actually be on the spanish tax system or whatever that would be there.

So would there be a problem when returning to Ireland and signing back on and not having paperwork to show as to where you where and what you were doing?

Hope someone can help me.

Thanks

tenchi-fan

You would continue to satisfy the habitual residence condition, it's only 3 months, not 3 years.

Are you currently claiming JSB or JSA? With JSB they won't ask you as many questions when you go to sign back on.

If it's JSA, they'll probably wonder how you supported yourself for 3 months. If I were you I'd open a Spanish account, lodge my wages into it and pay rent by cheque or cash. Before you return home, obtain bank statements and get a letter which shows the account has been closed.

If the welfare officer wants to know how you supported yourself and does not accept your excuse that you were ticking over by working part-time, you can use the bank statement as evidence. Say the reason you left was because it was only seasonal employment which came to an end, rather than you left to return home to the dole.

Don't worry about the tax end of things.. your employer will probably pay some amount of tax on casual labour and the dole office are unlikely to go digging. Just don't give them the impression that think you may have evaded paying tax.

shocksy

tenchi-fan wrote: »

You would continue to satisfy the habitual residence condition, it's only 3 months, not 3 years.

Are you currently claiming JSB or JSA? With JSB they won't ask you as many questions when you go to sign back on.

If it's JSA, they'll probably wonder how you supported yourself for 3 months. If I were you I'd open a Spanish account, lodge my wages into it and pay rent by cheque or cash. Before you return home, obtain bank statements and get a letter which shows the account has been closed.

If the welfare officer wants to know how you supported yourself and does not accept your excuse that you were ticking over by working part-time, you can use the bank statement as evidence. Say the reason you left was because it was only seasonal employment which came to an end, rather than you left to return home to the dole.

Don't worry about the tax end of things.. your employer will probably pay some amount of tax on casual labour and the dole office are unlikely to go digging. Just don't give them the impression that think you may have evaded paying tax.

Thanks very much for the very informed reply, much appreciated.