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Dole and Part time work

RyanP · 2011-03-04 12:05:11

Hey people, How many hours are you allowed work part time and claim dole? Or how does this work. I am going for a part time job and if I'm successful I'm wondering is there a certain amount of hours you cannot work over? max 20hrs, or max 25 or something like that? And also is there a form i have to fill in at Social…

04-03-2011 12:05pm

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RyanP

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Hey people,

How many hours are you allowed work part time and claim dole?
Or how does this work.

I am going for a part time job and if I'm successful I'm wondering is there a certain amount of hours you cannot work over? max 20hrs, or max 25 or something like that?

And also is there a form i have to fill in at Social Welfare office to say I have part time job..

Cheers in advance.

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#2 04-03-2011 12:10pm

SkepticOne

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Try the state benefits forum here.

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#3 04-03-2011 12:16pm

reilig

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RyanP wrote: »

Hey people,

How many hours are you allowed work part time and claim dole?
Or how does this work.

I am going for a part time job and if I'm successful I'm wondering is there a certain amount of hours you cannot work over? max 20hrs, or max 25 or something like that?

And also is there a form i have to fill in at Social Welfare office to say I have part time job..

Cheers in advance.

The working week is taken as 6 days - monday to saturday. You can work up to 3 of these days and still claim for the days you do not work. If you work 4 days, you cannot claim any benefit.

For example if you work monday, wednesday and friday, you can claim for tues, thurs and sat. But if you work Mon, tues , wed, and fri then you can't claim at all. Any amount of work on any day is considered a full day. eg. Half an hour in 1 day is considered a FULL day.

Its based on the number of days that you work rather than the hours.

Sundays aren't counted - so you can work sundays and it won't affect your claim.

Hope it makes sense.

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#4 04-03-2011 12:31pm

sceptre

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Moved to State Benefits.

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#5 04-03-2011 3:05pm

Granger13

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RyanP wrote: »

Hey people,

How many hours are you allowed work part time and claim dole?
Or how does this work.

I am going for a part time job and if I'm successful I'm wondering is there a certain amount of hours you cannot work over? max 20hrs, or max 25 or something like that?

And also is there a form i have to fill in at Social Welfare office to say I have part time job..

Cheers in advance.

As reilig say you can work up to 3 days and still continue to receive payment for the days you are unemployed as long as you still satisfy the conditions and say you are still looking for full-time employment or employment for the days you are not employed. if you worked a sunday this is not taken into account as long as you dont earn over the Rate of JB/JA that you receive. So you could actually work 4 days considering that, the JA week runs from a wednesday to tuesday (excluding Sundays)

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#6 04-03-2011 6:08pm

eastbono

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JB is not means tested so it does not go on your earnings. AFAIK in relation to JSA any earnings from Sunday are not means tested. If you work more than 3 days excluding Sunday you get nothing.

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