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Another Disability Allowance question...

  • 18-01-2013 8:07pm
    #1
    julias_jewel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 175 ✭✭


    Hi everyone,

    I have been on DA for 10 years.... In between I have been working, not getting the full rate... I moved in with partner 3 years ago and let the social welfare know my change in circumstances....

    I finished my last job last October and am still waiting for my payment to come through.... I have absolutely nothing at the minute, my partner is barely covering the bills on his wages, so was advised by theDisability office to go to the community welfare officer.... I went in today and was told that my partner earns too much for me to get any money and that the DA Office should have know that..

    Does that mean I should be means tested based on his wages?

    I'm really sorry, just very confused here.


Comments

  • #2
    Diplomat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭Diplomat


    Unfortunately, that is exactly what it means.


  • #3
    julias_jewel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 175 ✭✭julias_jewel


    Thought so.... Cheers


  • #4
    danjo-xx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,395 ✭✭✭danjo-xx


    Check it out for yourself, always worth doing, 50k of savings is disregarded.

    DISABILITY ALLOWANCE
    Disability Allowance is a means-tested payment. To get the allowance your total means must be below a certain amount. The main items that count as means are:
    • Cash income that you or your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant may have. More information is available in our document about cash income not included in the means test.
    • Capital, for example, the value of savings, investments, shares, any property you may have (other than your own home). However, the first €50,000 of any capital you have is not taken into account. More information is available in our document about capital and social welfare payments.
    • Maintenance paid to you. More information is available in our document about how maintenance is assessed as means.


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