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Wpp1 and JSA

  • 27-06-2011 3:10pm
    #1
    swizzle123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭


    Right lads... I am not the smartest with all thi social welfare payments and placements and all tht Jazz and I am completely lost!! Help pleasE!!!!!!!:(

    I have just finished my honours degree in childcare and have applied for so much jobs but never heard anything back! So I decided until I get a job I would apply for Job seekers allowance! Ive had all the meetings with inspectors and all that and now have to attend the SW office once a month to sign??? If I get it (which nspector said I should) I will only get 100 at the most because I am only 21!

    But I was on the Fás website there and see they ahve these WWp1 & 2 placements. Now am I ok to apply for these? Would these affect my Job Seekers allowance? And if I were to get the job as a classroom assistant would I still only get 100 euro for a thirty hour week??

    Thanks guys!!!!!!!


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  • #2
    Lugh Ildanach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 522 ✭✭✭Lugh Ildanach


    The way the WPP works is that if you have been on a payment for a certain amount of time, you can go on to the scheme (if you get accepted on a placement). Being on the placement does not affect your payment, which continues as long as you're entitled to it.

    The point of the scheme is to give you experience, it is not meant to be remuneration for the job.

    If you are 22 or over, and on the WPP scheme, you get the full rate of payment. Unfortunately if you are 21, then you only get what you're getting when you go on it. For exceptions to the reduced rates of Jobseekers for under 25s see here
    Exceptions to age-related Jobseeker's Allowance payments for people under 25

    The reduced age-related personal and qualified adult rates of Jobseeker’s Allowance for claimants under 25 years of age do not apply in the following cases:

    * Claimants with dependent children
    * People transferring to Jobseeker’s Allowance immediately after finishing their entitlement to Jobseeker’s Benefit
    * People transferring from Disability Allowance to Jobseeker’s Allowance
    * Where an existing Jobseeker’s Allowance claimant is assessed at the higher rate of allowance gets work but loses that job and is back on Jobseeker’s Allowance within 12 months
    * People under 25 participating in a course of education, training or Community Employment. However, when the course ends you will return to an age-related JA payment, if you were getting one before you started the course.
    * You were at least 20 years of age on 30 December 2009 and became unemployed on or before 30 December 2009
    * You were 18 or 19 on 30 December 2009 and you became unemployed on or before 29 April 2009
    * You are 22 to 24 and taking part in the Work Placement Programme run by FÁS

    Certain children in the care of the HSE during the 12 months before reaching 18 years of age will also be assessed using the JA rate for people aged 25 or over.

    Check with them what happens when you turn 22!!!


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