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Fas courses and social welfare payment

  • 25-10-2012 7:01pm
    #1
    mondeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Lost my job a few months back and on job seekers allowance at the min. Applying for a part time fas course since they are being offered for free. Question is does doing a fas course effect my social welfare payment? I believe it doesnt but Im reading conflicting reports about it.

    Maybe somone here did one while being unemployed and could fill me in.

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    DBK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭DBK


    Hi,

    Doing a part time course (night course) doesn't effect your SW. You shouldn't have to sign off or anything. A full time day course shouldn't either, but this will require you to sign off the SW. Hope that helps.


  • #3
    mondeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭mondeo


    DBK wrote: »
    Hi,

    Doing a part time course (night course) doesn't effect your SW. You shouldn't have to sign off or anything. A full time day course shouldn't either, but this will require you to sign off the SW. Hope that helps.

    Thanks for the reply. I might be reading your post wrong but at the end of your post you say I have to sign off the SW to do a fas course?


  • #4
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    mondeo wrote: »
    Thanks for the reply. I might be reading your post wrong but at the end of your post you say I have to sign off the SW to do a fas course?

    Hi I am doing a full-time FAS course. You sign off SW and are paid by FAS the same amount you were being paid by SW.

    :)


  • #5
    mondeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭mondeo


    sunflower27 wrote: »

    Hi I am doing a full-time FAS course. You sign off SW and are paid by FAS the same amount you were being paid by SW.

    :)

    What happens after you finish your course, are you automatically signing back onto social welfare again? Or what way does it work?

    Im interested in doing a short 5 week course. I dont want to have to go through the mess again of being means tested to get back on SW again over a 5 week course. A fas course is no promise of an immediate job.

    Thanks


  • #6
    sassa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭sassa


    mondeo wrote: »
    What happens after you finish your course, are you automatically signing back onto social welfare again? Or what way does it work?

    Im interested in doing a short 5 week course. I dont want to have to go through the mess again of being means tested to get back on SW again over a 5 week course. A fas course is no promise of an immediate job.

    Thanks

    You won't really be signing off more a case of your claim is suspended while you're on the fas course. you go back in when the course is finished with proof your course has ended and you fill in a form that is pretty much just to check your circumstances haven't changed while doing the course. You won't have to be means tested again and your payment should resume as normal.
    Have done 2 courses with fas myself and this is how it went for me anyway. finished course on a friday got letter from fas the following wednesday brought it to SW and had my payment in post office the following monday. no means test as my circumstances were the same. Hope that helps.


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