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Moving from dole to full time work, won't get first paycheque for a month.

  • 17-10-2013 11:49am
    #1
    Encrustment
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 179 ✭✭


    As the title says, I'll be working a month before I get my first paycheck.

    The social welfare office told me there's nothing they can do about it and I must "sign off" the second I officially become an employee of the company.

    While I can probably survive on rice and water for a month, I'd like to know if there is an easier option? Has anybody else been in this situation?


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  • #2
    ShaShaBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,528 ✭✭✭ShaShaBear


    Encrustment wrote: »
    As the title says, I'll be working a month before I get my first paycheck.

    The social welfare office told me there's nothing they can do about it and I must "sign off" the second I officially become an employee of the company.

    While I can probably survive on rice and water for a month, I'd like to know if there is an easier option? Has anybody else been in this situation?

    Ask your employer can they possible work a different wage plan out with you for the first month.


  • #3
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    While I can probably survive on rice and water for a month, I'd like to know if there is an easier option? Has anybody else been in this situation?

    Can you borrow off friends or family to tide you over?

    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



  • #4
    Sue Ellen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 461 ✭✭Sue Ellen


    If you go to the CWO they will help you with payment until your wages come through. You will need to prove when you will be getting that payment, maybe from your contract or a letter from the employer.


  • #5
    Iano_128
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭Iano_128


    I was in this position there a couple of years ago, spoke to the social welfare and got the same answer as you, spoke to my employer who said that pay day is pay day and they can't change it/give me any sort of advance. It was real tough but I just spent my last 2 dole monies on enough food to get me through the month and struggled.


  • #6
    oceanstreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭oceanstreet


    Ha, I get my post deleted and an infraction for having an 'alternative' opinion...free speech eat your heart out!

    Sorry government mods, I'll behave myself in future ;-)


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  • #7
    mp22
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    oceanstreet wrote: »
    Ha, I get my post deleted and an infraction for having an 'alternative' opinion...free speech eat your heart out!

    Sorry government mods, I'll behave myself in future ;-)
    Why yes,yes you will.


  • #8
    SomethingElse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,534 ✭✭✭SomethingElse


    I've always wondered if a social welfare payment is for the current week or the previous week? Are you getting paid for Monday-Saturday of the previous week or otherwise?


  • #9
    chargerman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭chargerman


    Encrustment wrote: »
    As the title says, I'll be working a month before I get my first paycheck.

    The social welfare office told me there's nothing they can do about it and I must "sign off" the second I officially become an employee of the company.

    While I can probably survive on rice and water for a month, I'd like to know if there is an easier option? Has anybody else been in this situation?
    Happened me last year, and I went to welfare office and got the same reply. My friend also got the same reply but he went to the CWO and they gave him 3 cheques for 186.00 and he had to pay back that when he got paid. They wanted his bank statements, contract of employment, letter, and he had to fill out forms, got the first cheque that week though


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