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Just got a letter in the door about Job Seekers Allowance

  • 03-07-2011 10:56pm
    #1
    im...LOST
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I've just finished college for good and have a part time job. For the past 6 months or so I've been working Saturday(8 hours), Sunday(4 hours @ 1.5) and 1 evening (3.5 hours). I applied for the Part Time Dole a few weeks ago and have handed in 2 slips (with the X's and the O's) at this stage.

    I got a letter there saying
    Your normal level of Employment is <handwritten>3</> days a week based on your pattern of work from 15/03/11 to 6/6/11. Any week you work <handwritten>3</> days or more, you will not qualify for payment as you will not have loss of employment.

    But from all I've read everywhere, the Social Welfare don't count Sunday as a working day so to them I've been working 2 days a week in that time frame they've mentioned, no? So I've not been working 3 like they say I have been.

    Am I missing something that I'm just not seeing at the moment or left out some vital piece of information here?

    Thanks for your time.


Comments

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


    Sunday is not treated as a day of unemployment and is disregarded in computing any period of consecutive days. Although Sunday is not treated as a day of unemployment, employment on a Sunday is counted in establishing the normal level of employment. A loss of employment on a Sunday can therefore satisfy the "substantial loss" test for claiming Jobseeker's Benefit.

    http://www.welfare.ie/en/pages/jajbfaq.aspx#q18


  • #3
    stephendevlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,307 ✭✭✭stephendevlin


    Your circumstances have not changed really if you were on a 5 day week and you now have been put on a 3 day "by your work" week then you would get part time dole.


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