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LegacyUser

My partner is on JSA and in work placement through FAS. We have just registered as cohabiting. As far as I can make out from the letter he just received the social has cut his payment in half because when we registered as cohabiting I was in receipt of Disability Benefit on a week by week basis while being off work sick and they automatically half payments when a partner is in receipt of a SW payment. They were made well aware that I am in employment as they had 12 months statements of my account that my wages go into. My question is when I go back to work do we contact the DSW to say I have gone back and am no longer in receipt of DB so that they review his payment amount or would they have actually taken into account that although I was in receipt of a SW payment I am in fact employed?

Lugh Ildanach

Once you go back to work, your wages will be taken into account in the means test. Depending on how much you earn, your partner's Jobseekers payment will be reduced.

They disregard the first 60 Euro and will deduct 60% off the balance off his claim.

Let us know how much you earn when you're in work, and someone can let you know how much his claim would be affected by.

skeptik

Lugh Ildanach wrote: »

Once you go back to work, your wages will be taken into account in the means test. Depending on how much you earn, your partner's Jobseekers payment will be reduced.

They disregard the first 60 Euro and will deduct 60% off the balance off his claim.

Let us know how much you earn when you're in work, and someone can let you know how much his claim would be affected by.

I get €740 every fortnight after tax, PRSI etc

Lugh Ildanach

skeptik wrote: »

I get €740 every fortnight after tax, PRSI etc

They don't deduct tax, only PRSI, union dues and pension/prsa payments.

What is your gross, minus the above deductions?

Do you have any children? If not, then your partner will lose his entire payment. He will be able to sign for credits though to keep up his social insurance record and to maintain eligibility for various schemes, Internship/Springboard etc.

skeptik

Lugh Ildanach wrote: »

They don't deduct tax, only PRSI, union dues and pension/prsa payments.

What is your gross, minus the above deductions?

Do you have any children? If not, then your partner will lose his entire payment. He will be able to sign for credits though to keep up his social insurance record and to maintain eligibility for various schemes, Internship/Springboard etc.

€870 gross every fortnight. We don't have children yet but I am due in July. So you're telling me that, by the look of it, once I get better and go back to work he won't be entitled to a red cent?!

wmpdd3

The payment could be around €37 per week, going by what my other half got when I was working.

skeptik

wmpdd3 wrote: »

The payment could be around €37 per week, going by what my other half got when I was working.

Oh my god, sure no wonder there's people in the country who never worked a day in their lives! His payment is rubbish when I am working but it's horrendous if I do go back to work after being sick. Hardly incentive to rush back!

wmpdd3

When you have your baby in July apply for FIS, even though you are on maternity leave, keep copies of you payslips from now till then you'll need them.

You should be entitled to a payment. This will go some way to making up the shortfall.

Also when you go on maternity leave, go to the social welfare office and ask to be re-means tested.

skeptik

wmpdd3 wrote: »

When you have your baby in July apply for FIS, even though you are on maternity leave, keep copies of you payslips from now till then you'll need them.

You should be entitled to a payment. This will go some way to making up the shortfall.

Also when you go on maternity leave, go to the social welfare office and ask to be re-means tested.

Hopefully he will have employment by then so I won't have to worry about all of this. Thanks for the help