Supplement welfare payment

Stressedoutmum

Has anybody got any answers. I am a single mother of two children. I had to reduce down my working hours too 20 hours per week my wages are €957 per month. I have applied for fis and am awating the payment. I am struggling. Went into my coummity welfare officer today and she gave me a payment of €6.57 i asked was this correct and she said it was.....!! I am in my overdraft at present and have no other income at all the bills are stacked high at this stage! Any advice?

eastbono

Stressedoutmum wrote: »

Has anybody got any answers. I am a single mother of two children. I had to reduce down my working hours too 20 hours per week my wages are €957 per month. I have applied for fis and am awating the payment. I am struggling. Went into my coummity welfare officer today and she gave me a payment of €6.57 i asked was this correct and she said it was.....!! I am in my overdraft at present and have no other income at all the bills are stacked high at this stage! Any advice?

Did you ask the cwo how they arrived at this figure? Have you applied for one parent family payment? If not you should do so asap. Depending on the ages of your children you may qualify. This payment takes less time than FIS to process. From what I can see from other posters FIS takes approx 20 weeks to process.
As you have asked for your hours to be reduced it is unlikely that you would meet the criteria for a jobseekers benefit or jobseekers allowance payment these payments deal with days rather than hours.

Kristopherus

Normally you would get a written calculation from the CWO. If not, then ask for it. That will explain in detail how the calculation was arrived at.

Stressedoutmum

eastbono wrote: »

Stressedoutmum wrote: »

Has anybody got any answers. I am a single mother of two children. I had to reduce down my working hours too 20 hours per week my wages are €957 per month. I have applied for fis and am awating the payment. I am struggling. Went into my coummity welfare officer today and she gave me a payment of €6.57 i asked was this correct and she said it was.....!! I am in my overdraft at present and have no other income at all the bills are stacked high at this stage! Any advice?

Did you ask the cwo how they arrived at this figure? Have you applied for one parent family payment? If not you should do so asap. Depending on the ages of your children you may qualify. This payment takes less time than FIS to process. From what I can see from other posters FIS takes approx 20 weeks to process.
As you have asked for your hours to be reduced it is unlikely that you would meet the criteria for a jobseekers benefit or jobseekers allowance payment these payments deal with days rather than hours.

No I never asked was just that shocked and deflated i left!! The office is back open tomorrow going to pop back up. I was u.der the impression i could get an advane on my back pay that is due.
Wating 12 weeks now on fis they say it should be processed by April. Have not applied for opf as of yet thanks for the tip.

Karen23

eastbono wrote: »

Did you ask the cwo how they arrived at this figure? Have you applied for one parent family payment? If not you should do so asap. Depending on the ages of your children you may qualify. This payment takes less time than FIS to process. From what I can see from other posters FIS takes approx 20 weeks to process.
As you have asked for your hours to be reduced it is unlikely that you would meet the criteria for a jobseekers benefit or jobseekers allowance payment these payments deal with days rather than hours.

As far as I know you're only allowed work 19.5 hours to qualify for OPF , putting down 20 hours will make you ineligible so it would be worth dropping another half hour from your working week.

Kristopherus

Apply, apply, apply for everything you think you can qualify for. You will be waiting weeks for a decision, so the sooner you act, the better.

cee_jay

Karen23 wrote: »

As far as I know you're only allowed work 19.5 hours to qualify for OPF , putting down 20 hours will make you ineligible so it would be worth dropping another half hour from your working week.

There is no limit on the amount of hours you can work on OFP. Your earnings just have to be less than €425 per week.

eastbono

Stressedoutmum wrote: »

No I never asked was just that shocked and deflated i left!! The office is back open tomorrow going to pop back up. I was u.der the impression i could get an advane on my back pay that is due.
Wating 12 weeks now on fis they say it should be processed by April. Have not applied for opf as of yet thanks for the tip.

Plus you may be entitled to OPF and FIS sw will always award you the best option.

yabadabado

eastbono wrote: »

Plus you may be entitled to OPF and FIS sw will always award you the best option.

If she applies for OFP ,it wont effect her FIS payment until FIS is up for renewal again as she applied for OFP after FIS.It will be assessed as an income next time.

upinthesky

the maximum payment the c.w.o will give you is 245.60 188 for yourself and 29.80 for each child

you are currently getting 239.25 per week which take away from the 245.60 and you get the the 6.35

the only thing i can tell you to do is ask about an urgent needs payment its about the only payment they might give you

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/supplementary_welfare_schemes/supplementary_welfare_allow.html#l62fd2