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Dole Qs and iPhones!

  • 09-09-2012 10:57am
    #1
    Caswell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭


    Only just signed on for the first time ever,was just wondering why most people on social have iPhones?
    Is there a way to claim for an iPhone, a special form or something.
    My phones battery wont even last for more that three hours while evryone else has brand new iPhones.
    How can they all afford them?


Comments

  • #2
    apache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,495 ✭✭✭apache


    Ha ha thats the million dollar question. Social welfare does/did have a mobile phone allowance. Crazy stuff!


  • #3
    ElleEm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭ElleEm


    You can get phones for free as part of a billing contract on most networks, or you only have to pay e50 or something towards them!


  • #4
    apache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,495 ✭✭✭apache


    Yeah but you need a credit check and if you get it for free as a new customer you usually have to enter a 24 month contract with at least e40 a month so yeah i suppose it is possible to flash the iphone when collecting dole. Also not sure if still going on but defo used to get a mobile allowance to help pay your bill and i assumed that was what op meant. The price of the monthly bill not actual phone.


  • #5
    ElleEm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭ElleEm


    apache wrote: »
    Yeah but you need a credit check and if you get it for free as a new customer you usually have to enter a 24 month contract with at least e40 a month so yeah i suppose it is possible to flash the iphone when collecting dole. Also not sure if still going on but defo used to get a mobile allowance to help pay your bill and i assumed that was what op meant. The price of the monthly bill not actual phone.

    There is a household benefit package that you can get with certain benefits (disability/ invalidity/ carers/ blind person) where they give you a few quid off your phone bill every month. It wouldn't be worth getting disabled for!!!!


  • #6
    apache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,495 ✭✭✭apache


    People get it with none of the above issues.


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  • #7
    Robbo
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    Away to AH. This isn't really BGRH material.


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