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Social welfare

  • 02-07-2014 1:53pm
    #1
    blondie1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭


    I was working for 3 weeks and collecting my social welfare. I am working part time. I went to the office to say I started work but they said come back when you have a payslip. Nobody told me to stop collecting my payment. She said to me I will have to give all the money back. But what next will I end up in jail!? I am so scared, this wasn't my fault but they say I am a thief.


Comments

  • #2
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    no you won't go to jail
    make it clear that you told them you were working and that the answer you were given confused you and pay back the money when you can


  • #3
    Little CuChulainn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    You can still claim social welfare while working part time so you shouldn't be required to give it all back unless you exceeded the number of hours per week you can work and claim. Best to head over to the social welfare forum and see what you should be entitled to working part time. You should only have to give back the difference between that and what you collected.


  • #4
    blondie1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭blondie1985


    Little CuChulainn wrote: »
    You can still claim social welfare while working part time so you shouldn't be required to give it all back unless you exceeded the number of hours per week you can work and claim. Best to head over to the social welfare forum and see what you should be entitled to working part time. You should only have to give back the difference between that and what you collected.
    I didn't, I only worked 20 hrs per week. I did tell them but they still kept putting money into my bank acc


  • #5
    Red Nissan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    They will make a demand for all the money to be paid back like as if you actually have it in your back pocket.

    Social Welfare will want ALL the money.

    Absolutely no point in working if one is on social welfare, you need to be on Job Seekers and they will take 60% of the income as over payment over €60.

    Depending on how the labour instructs the social, you may be totally cut off until all the money is paid back, or they will stop an agreed minimum weekly.


  • #6
    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    The DSP will deduct a small amount per week until it is all paid off, so don't worry, they usually only deduct a small percentage. As for going to jail... not a chance. They don't go heavy on you so don't be worrying about it.

    In your case, it was just a minor error.


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  • #7
    homer simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,852 ✭✭✭homer simpson


    blondie1985 wrote: »
    I didn't, I only worked 20 hrs per week. I did tell them but they still kept putting money into my bank acc

    Hhhuummm... I assumed the SW stopped paying money into peoples bank accounts.


  • #8
    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    homer simpson wrote: »
    Hhhuummm... I assumed the SW stopped paying money into peoples bank accounts.

    That's what I thought as well, but I think if you are working part-time they send the payment through to your bank account, because they can see/know that you are residing and working in the country.


  • #9
    blondie1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭blondie1985


    homer simpson wrote: »
    Hhhuummm... I assumed the SW stopped paying money into peoples bank accounts.

    I worked full time than my company downsized and I was working 23hrs per week so I got some money from the SW. And than I lost my job and was looking for one for 2yrs. When I got this part time job I just went in and told them and they said the money will be in ur bank next week. They kept paying me the full amount. And now is my fault because they made a mistake.


  • #10
    Red Nissan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    blondie1985 wrote: »
    They kept paying me the full amount. And now is my fault because they made a mistake.

    Of course it is, they are totally intolerant and totally inflexible. They make it impossible for anyone to actually try and make good, and turn good people very hard and cynical.


  • #11
    Sala
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Sala


    Red Nissan wrote: »
    Of course it is, they are totally intolerant and totally inflexible. They make it impossible for anyone to actually try and make good, and turn good people very hard and cynical.

    I actually agree with this. I had a friend who had unreliable work on a week by week basis depending on the funding available, and every week she went to the social welfare office and gave them evidence of what hours she had and what pay she was due, to the extent that for weeks in a row she was entitled to no payments given her earnings.. and then someone rang her shouted at her and accused her of being a liar and to tell them she was working.


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