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Student able to claim benefits

  • 21-06-2012 11:27pm
    #1
    13Ballymore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭


    I am a student finished till September. Can I claim Jobseeker's Benefit for the summer if I have no job. Thanks


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  • #2
    prettyrestless
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭prettyrestless


    13Ballymore wrote: »
    I am a student finished till September. Can I claim Jobseeker's Benefit for the summer if I have no job. Thanks

    Don't think so as you're technically in full time education. Even when you finish college and have no job, you have to wait about 6 months (I think) before you can claim JB and have it backdated.


  • #3
    Fionn MacCool
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Fionn MacCool


    prettyrestless wrote: »
    Don't think so as you're technically in full time education. Even when you finish college and have no job, you have to wait about 6 months (I think) before you can claim JB and have it backdated.
    Don't think this is correct. I know people who signed on from the date their last exam finished to the day they started post-grad.


  • #4
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    13Ballymore wrote: »
    I am a student finished till September. Can I claim Jobseeker's Benefit for the summer if I have no job. Thanks


    No

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #5
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    If you are getting the back to education allowance during the college year, then yes you can sign on for JSA for the summer until you go back.


  • #6
    Outkast_IRE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,516 ✭✭✭Outkast_IRE


    Fionn MacCool wrote: »
    Don't think this is correct. I know people who signed on from the date their last exam finished to the day they started post-grad.
    Yes this is usually becuase you need to apply for the post grad and its not 100% you have it till september so technically for those months you are not in eduaction.


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