Taking over part of farm / social welfare

Farmersaregr8

Hi I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction for some info.
My partner will be taking on part of the family farm, getting his own herd number, stock etc
He is currently on job seekers allowance and we have rent allowance also.
My question is - is he entitled to keep any of his social welfare for a certain period of time while he sets up on the farm - I know there is a "back to work" kind of system when setting up a business whereby social welfare can be kept for the first year or so. Is it the same for farming? I am new to all of this so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

moy83

I dont know about keeping the dole but there is a farm assist that he might get . I suppose you would be aswell going into the social welfare office and explaining the case to them and they should be able to tell you for sure what you can do .

lakill Farm

Farmersaregr8 wrote: »

Hi I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction for some info.
My partner will be taking on part of the family farm, getting his own herd number, stock etc
He is currently on job seekers allowance and we have rent allowance also.
My question is - is he entitled to keep any of his social welfare for a certain period of time while he sets up on the farm - I know there is a "back to work" kind of system when setting up a business whereby social welfare can be kept for the first year or so. Is it the same for farming? I am new to all of this so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

every possibility your partner will still be allowed keep his social welfare but it wount be job seeker because he wount be in theory available to work

so farm assist or probably a form of job seeker (the one that is means tested)

_Brian

Check out the "Rural Social Scheme", it might suit well.

moy83

_Brian wrote: »

Check out the "Rural Social Scheme", it might suit well.

Is that a different scheme than the farm assist ? I never heard of it but it sounds interesting

moy83

I just saw on reeling in the years there that there was 18000 farmers claiming the farmers dole in 1976 . I wonder how many are getting assistance now ?

Sam Kade

lakill Farm wrote: »

every possibility your partner will still be allowed keep his social welfare but it wount be job seeker because he wount be in theory available to work

so farm assist or probably a form of job seeker (the one that is means tested)

What if a farmer on farm assist were changing his system of farming would he/she be entitled to keep farm assist for 2 years?

Sam Kade

_Brian wrote: »

Check out the "Rural Social Scheme", it might suit well.

That would be a top up of the farm assist where you work for 20 hours/week for €20/week it would hardly pay for the petrol going to work.

Conmaicne Mara

moy83 wrote: »

I just saw on reeling in the years there that there was 18000 farmers claiming the farmers dole in 1976 . I wonder how many are getting assistance now ?

Don't quote me, but something tells me about 11k, could be wrong.

rliston

10714 claiming in 2010 according to the cso

_Brian

Sam Kade wrote: »

That would be a top up of the farm assist where you work for 20 hours/week for €20/week it would hardly pay for the petrol going to work.

Also provides a full stamp and your allowed to work above board along with the payment your receiving which cannot be said for most or any other SW payments.

Farmersaregr8

Thanks all for your helpful responses. Farm assist will probably be what will happen but we will go into the social welfare office and get their advise. Thanks again