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Overpaid JSB

  • 21-03-2012 9:18am
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    I have been on jobseekers benefit since the end of last March. On reading threads here I see that people get a letter from the Welfare Office to say they're nearing the end of their jsb entitlements. I have gotten no such letter. I did my calculations this morning, and realised I'm only entitled to 312 days (and not a year as I originally thought). I am over those days and have received a few hundred in my usual weekly cheques that I fear I shouldn't have been getting :(

    I'll be going to the Welfare Office on Friday, my next day off work, but I'm bricking it that they'll be asking for a lump sum to be paid back to them. I don't have it, it has gone on rent and food.

    Any ideas what they'll say to put my mind at ease before I get down to the Welfare Office on Friday? Thanks


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  • #2
    cee_jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭cee_jay


    312 days is the number of days you can be paid for and is equal to a year. On Jobseeker's you get paid for 6 days a week - so 312/6 = 52 weeks.
    If you don't get paid for a full 6 days every week, your Jobseeker's Benefit can last longer than this.


  • #3
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Ok that's a huge relief, I haven't been overpaid so I won't be owing them anything. Thank you.

    I have my dockets for the next 4 weeks though but I'll go down on Friday and ask if I'm supposed to apply for jsa as I pass my 52 weeks next week.


  • #4
    cee_jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭cee_jay


    You state you have your dockets - does this mean you are on Casual JSB?
    If so, you won't be getting paid for 6 days a week - so therefore your JSB will last longer than a year. 312 days is the number of days you actually get paid for.
    If you get paid for 3 days a week, that means your JSB could last for 104 weeks.


  • #5
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Yes casual jsb, I was 8 years full time working 5 days a week, no stops, and was cut to a 3 day working week last March due to lack of work and have consistently worked the 3 days while getting my yellow dockets by post, handing them into the welfare office and receiving a weekly cheque of €94.

    So my 312 days is only totted up by my 3 non working days rather than being inclusive of the days I work?


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