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  • 21-02-2012 6:26pm
    #1
    Wilko121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭


    Hey all,
    I have been travelling around Europe for the past two years. I returned at christmas and signed on the dole. I havnt been told yet weather or not Il be receiving any financial assistance.
    Here is my dilemma, I have been offered two months work in the Alps but im thinking that The department of Social Welfare will see me as some sort of holiday dole seeker and squash my claim. Whats likely to happen?


Comments

  • #2
    Gingernuts31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Gingernuts31


    It doesn't look good from a welfare point of view anyway. The whole idea of the Social is that it is to help you while you are looking for a job. It's not really meant for people who only come back once a year or something. Would be different if you were staying here and genuinly looking for work here but by the looks of it you won't be. The claim will take about 3 months to process anyway so you could talk to them and see what they say.

    But beware some local offices have their own rules (they seem to twist the normal rules around) so try get onto the HQ if you can. What your local office tells you might not be entirely accurate and it could be the difference between getting a payment and not.


  • #3
    Wilko121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭Wilko121


    I see your point that it does look bad, but work is work :)
    I had planed to be back here full time and I am looking for work here.
    Ok thanks i will contact the cork office first thing tomorrow!


  • #4
    eastbono
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭eastbono


    If you are heading off again before your claim has been processed you will be deemed not habitually resident as your centre of interest will be in the country you will now be working in.

    If you wait for your claim to be processed and then head off again then you will have to satisfy HRC again and you will have a pattern of coming home for Christmas and going off again.


  • #5
    Wilko121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭Wilko121


    would it be inadvisable to phone an ask if my claim is likely to bear any fruit at all?
    I a have hard story's of people returning and having difficulty in that respect


  • #6
    eastbono
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭eastbono


    Wilko121 wrote: »
    would it be inadvisable to phone an ask if my claim is likely to bear any fruit at all?
    I a have hard story's of people returning and having difficulty in that respect

    Well you have to go through the habitual residency process and also the means test. It depends on how busy the office is that your have made your claim Have you heard anything from them since you applied? Have you applied for supplementary allowance from you community welfare officer while you are waiting for your jsa to be processed?


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