Need help please

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O girls so I have found myself in a position I never expected at a horrible time.

My fiancé has lost his job so as of 10th of jan he is out of work. Will hopefully have p45 next thurs. I myself am on illness benefit due to a couple if issues I cannot return to work and am also 25 weeks preg with a 15 month old.

I plan to go to the dole office tomorrow to see what we can do and what we are entitled to. But I suppose I need advice on what to ask etc and what I need? Where we are currently living we would not be entitled to rent allowance as our landlord is not registered and our rent is 850 a month and the limit in cork is 700 or 715 if they take second baba in account.
I have been looking online to see if there is an option to move and have only found 2 places in bad areas so don't even know if that would work as none of us drive etc

So does anyone know what would happen with rent allowance? As in how long would it take to get approved? And if we could avail of any help in the mean time? As of now jans rent is paid and I will have rent for feb 1st. And could use deposit as rent for march as our landlord does this anyway to give tenemts time to save for deposit and rent on new place. But then as of end of march we would be without a home and me 35 weeks preg. I'm terrified.

Does anyone know what help we would be entitled to? I think we would be able to apply for fis but as I see from here the wait is pretty long and it could also take time for him to be means tested for dole etc.

We have no savings at all and were already living pay day to pay day for most of the month. We have debts (credit cards,overdrafts) of approx 3k. Not too bad but when it needs to be paid we could end up in trouble.

To make ends meet and survive in our current home etc my partner would have to be earning at least 28k a year as his job was 29.5. He has no official qualifications he was working in tech support for a number of years and is good with computers and the likes. He's been online applying for everything he can find all week.

So any help or advise you girls could give is welcome. We could be in serious trouble in a few very short weeks and honestly don't know what to do as I have never claimed any benefits and neither has my partner. So we honestly don't know where to start or who to talk to.

allthedoyles

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O girls so I have found myself in a position I never expected at a horrible time.

My fiancé has lost his job so as of 10th of jan he is out of work. Will hopefully have p45 next thurs. I myself am on illness benefit due to a couple if issues I cannot return to work and am also 25 weeks preg with a 15 month old.

I plan to go to the dole office tomorrow to see what we can do and what we are entitled to. But I suppose I need advice on what to ask etc and what I need? Where we are currently living we would not be entitled to rent allowance as our landlord is not registered and our rent is 850 a month and the limit in cork is 700 or 715 if they take second baba in account.
I have been looking online to see if there is an option to move and have only found 2 places in bad areas so don't even know if that would work as none of us drive etc

So does anyone know what would happen with rent allowance? As in how long would it take to get approved? And if we could avail of any help in the mean time? As of now jans rent is paid and I will have rent for feb 1st. And could use deposit as rent for march as our landlord does this anyway to give tenemts time to save for deposit and rent on new place. But then as of end of march we would be without a home and me 35 weeks preg. I'm terrified.

Does anyone know what help we would be entitled to? I think we would be able to apply for fis but as I see from here the wait is pretty long and it could also take time for him to be means tested for dole etc.

We have no savings at all and were already living pay day to pay day for most of the month. We have debts (credit cards,overdrafts) of approx 3k. Not too bad but when it needs to be paid we could end up in trouble.

To make ends meet and survive in our current home etc my partner would have to be earning at least 28k a year as his job was 29.5. He has no official qualifications he was working in tech support for a number of years and is good with computers and the likes. He's been online applying for everything he can find all week.

So any help or advise you girls could give is welcome. We could be in serious trouble in a few very short weeks and honestly don't know what to do as I have never claimed any benefits and neither has my partner. So we honestly don't know where to start or who to talk to.

One of ye , need to be employed to qualify for FIS .

Its best if you ring the Citizens Information.ie

maringo

Your bf should be entitled to jobseekers benefit - that runs for 9 months and is not means tested

Have a look on Dept. of Social Protection site

https://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/home.aspx