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Being on the social welfare and working up to 20 hours a week?

  • 08-02-2012 7:05pm
    #1
    LighterGuy
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    I've heard recently that a person can be on the social welfare (getting 188 a week or what have you) and you are allowed to work for 20+ hours in a part time job on top of that.

    Now, I have no clue as to weather this is true or not. Can anyone give me some info on it? (i'm thinking it sounds untrue)


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  • #2
    Salt001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭Salt001


    If you're a partime worker you may be able to claim for one or two days that you're not working but you will lose one days pay from the sw for every day that you're employed .


  • #3
    eastbono
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭eastbono


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    I've heard recently that a person can be on the social welfare (getting 188 a week or what have you) and you are allowed to work for 20+ hours in a part time job on top of that.

    Now, I have no clue as to weather this is true or not. Can anyone give me some info on it? (i'm thinking it sounds untrue)

    And you are thinking correctly. Someone who is unemployed and on jobseekers of €188 a week and gets casual work have to notify sw. Its not the hours its the days. If your fully unemployed and get a job working 3 days a weeks then you get paid for 3 days thats if its jobseekers benefit. If you work > 3 days per week and one of the days is sunday... you still get 3 days as sunday is excluded as a working day at the minute but if you work 4 days per week (sundays excluded) you dont get any payment. If you are on jobseekers allowance any earnings from employment is calculated as means including means from working on sunday. (Same rule applies per days worked).


  • #4
    rosehip
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    I think whoever told you about it was confusing it with Disability Allowance as working up to 20 hrs a week is allowed on this.

    It is seen as a way to get sick people back into the workforce - it is called rehabilitative work and has to be sanctioned by the dept of social welfare. It also facilitates people retraining or trying a new job as their illness may not allow them to continue in their old job/career.

    Regards,
    Rose


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
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    Also, if you're involved in the Tús programme, you are allowed work outside of the programme if you so wish.


  • #6
    Lugh Ildanach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 522 ✭✭✭Lugh Ildanach


    eastbono wrote: »
    If you are on jobseekers allowance any earnings from employment is calculated as means including means from working on sunday. (Same rule applies per days worked).

    On Jobseekers Allowance, earnings from employment on a Sunday are not taken into consideration, unless they are such that they would push your assessed earnings over the limit for receiving Jobseekers Allowance at all.

    This is set to change in January 2013 when earnings from employment on a Sunday will be taken into account.

    Where your spouse/partner is working on a Sunday, their earnings from Sunday work are taken into account.


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  • #7
    eastbono
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭eastbono


    Lugh Ildanach wrote: »
    On Jobseekers Allowance, earnings from employment on a Sunday are not taken into consideration, unless they are such that they would push your assessed earnings over the limit for receiving Jobseekers Allowance at all.

    This is set to change in January 2013 when earnings from employment on a Sunday will be taken into account.

    Where your spouse/partner is working on a Sunday, their earnings from Sunday work are taken into account.

    I stand corrected I was positive that for jsa sunday earnings were also calculated as means.

    With regard to change in 2013 this is in relation to Sunday being regarded as a work day for calculating number of days worked not with regard to earnings from work being taken into account see link.
    http://www.welfare.ie/EN/Topics/Budget/Bud12/Pages/bud12s7.aspx


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