I found a job in Germany. Can my wife get Job Seekers?

positivethinkin

I found a job in Germany. My wife wants to leave Ireland with me. She will be leaving a job here to look for work in Germany. If she leaves a job she would have to wait 6 weeks in Ireland to get job seekers. Can she transfer to Germany and wait 6 weeks there before getting this benefit? Would she have to wait here in Ireland to get this benefit? Will the turn around & say no your not getting any thing?

Thanking you in advance

Regards Pos

ANXIOUS

Have i got this straight, your wife is leaving a perfectly good job in ireland? To top it off she wants the irish tax payers to give her money while she lives in germany?

minnieq

I don't think your wife would be able to seek job seekers allowance. She would have to be made redundant or company proves they have no work for her. You can't leave a perfetly paying job and expect jobseekers allowance, correct me if I'm wrong.

heathercat

The law in Germany says that if you leave on your own accord, you will have to wait 3 months before you get any job seeker's allowance / unemployment benefits.

Those benefits will NOT be paid by the Irish tax payers, they will be paid by the German tax payers. The EU has agreed to honour each other's benefits claims. Details in English can be found here: Benefits

Hope this helps.

If you are moving to Germany, depending on the area you will be in, please be aware of the difference in cost of living. Especially rent and petrol is much more expensive than here (outside Dublin, that is!). Also, 99% of all flats/houses are rented out unfurnished!

If you need further information, give a shout, I gladly help

mrsbyrne

positivethinkin wrote: »

I found a job in Germany. My wife wants to leave Ireland with me. She will be leaving a job here to look for work in Germany. If she leaves a job she would have to wait 6 weeks in Ireland to get job seekers. Can she transfer to Germany and wait 6 weeks there before getting this benefit? Would she have to wait here in Ireland to get this benefit? Will the turn around & say no your not getting any thing?

Thanking you in advance

Regards Pos

If your wife voluntarily leaves her employment she will probably be disqualified for 9 weeks. Then if she fulfills all the other JSB criteria and gets JSB, she will be in payment for 4 weeks before she can transfer her payment to Germany. then she will only get JSB for 13 weeks.
See below.
JB) may be transferred to another EEA member state for up to 13 weeks, if you are looking for work there. You must be getting Jobseeker's Benefit for 4 weeks before you can transfer it to another EEA member state. From 1 May 2010 new EU Regulations came into effect (pdf) which mean that if you apply to transfer your Jobseeker's Benefit, it will be paid directly to you. You will still be required to register with the employment services of the country where you have gone to look for work within a week. You must take form Form U2 (which is replacing Form E303) to the social services of the country you are travelling to. You can get a completed Form U2 from your local social welfare office.

The 13-week period of payment may be extended to 6 months in exceptional circumstances. Also you may now transfer your JB payment more than once while you are unemployed provided you do not exceed the maximum period of 13 weeks (6 months if extended)

positivethinkin

ANXIOUS wrote: »

Have i got this straight, your wife is leaving a perfectly good job in ireland? To top it off she wants the irish tax payers to give her money while she lives in germany?

The name says it all I have paid tax into the system for 20 years & my wife 5 years so if we are due something back its nice to know. So thank you people who set the story straight Also with me getting let go this year I paid over 30k in tax a few weeks dole for my wife looking for a job in Germany would only be a small amount of that back.

I hope Anxious you are paying your fare share of tax

Enjoy

positivethinkin

heathercat wrote: »

The law in Germany says that if you leave on your own accord, you will have to wait 3 months before you get any job seeker's allowance / unemployment benefits.

Those benefits will NOT be paid by the Irish tax payers, they will be paid by the German tax payers. The EU has agreed to honour each other's benefits claims. Details in English can be found here: Benefits

Hope this helps.

If you are moving to Germany, depending on the area you will be in, please be aware of the difference in cost of living. Especially rent and petrol is much more expensive than here (outside Dublin, that is!). Also, 99% of all flats/houses are rented out unfurnished!

If you need further information, give a shout, I gladly help

Very helpful Thank you

The new company is helping with move & paying for our things to be moved. I am going because pay is better then here so cost are understood. Furniture budget is going to big big I am sure bu then moving is never cheap.

Again thanks for the info.

heathercat

positivethinkin wrote: »

....I am going because pay is better then here .....

Better pay? :eek: That's a new one! I do hope you are aware of the deductions from your gross income? As a simple guideline let me tell you that 45k gross in Germany comes out to the same net as 26k in Ireland.

Here is a simple online tool to figure out your net pay from your gross pay:

http://www.brutto-nettorechner.com/gehaltsrechner-2011/

As a single person (tax class 1) catholic (paying church tax) without children with a gross of 45k, your monthly net will be 2175 Euros. If you are both working with approx. the same salary, tax class 4 is about the same as tax class 1.

I wish you all the best, my friend! Amazing how the work migration goes....*lol* Lots of Germans (myself included) come to Ireland for easier work, better pay (net) and stressfree life

mp22

Looks like the op has enough advice
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