day trip to UK while on job-seekers ?

180567

I wonder would anyone know if you wanted to do a day trip (over in the morning and back that same evening) to the UK while on job-seekers , do you need to notify the local office ? Would you need to book it as one of the 'holiday' days you get each year ? Is there any where you can check the exact regulations on whether they treat a day trip as a holiday or not ?

Thanks if anyone knows the answer or where I could find out.

mp22

Be available for and genuinely seeking work
From here http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/unemployed_people/jobseekers_benefit.html

Not in the country = not available for work.Call into your local office and see what they say.

No, social welfare dont have people to follow everyone around 24/7. No one will even notice.

Balagan

180567 wrote: »

I wonder would anyone know if you wanted to do a day trip (over in the morning and back that same evening) to the UK while on job-seekers , do you need to notify the local office ? Would you need to book it as one of the 'holiday' days you get each year ? Is there any where you can check the exact regulations on whether they treat a day trip as a holiday or not ?

Thanks if anyone knows the answer or where I could find out.

It's a pain but really best to inform them and take as a day's holiday. Bring in your ticket print out. It's a pain but should anything happen to delay your return (sickness, a volcano erupting in the middle of the Irish sea etc.,!!!!) you're covered and won't have that extra stress.

FloatingVoter

Go. You are not a prisoner in this country. If anyone in SW asks, say you were visiting a mate who had a hint of a job. Even if you were on the piss down Camden who's to know. Engage your brain. The guys you see in the papers getting nicked at the airport are claiming (and owing property) in several jurisdictions, in one case (up Cork girls) having a public gallery opening in London.
Go. And don't be bothering the nice people down in welfare with your life that you have a right to live.

Atlantic Dawn

You can take 2 weeks holidays per year once you notify them. "If" you were to use your passport for travel there will be a record which might find its way back to Social Welfare. The UK and Ireland is a common travel area not requiring passports to travel .

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/irish_social_welfare_system/claiming_a_social_welfare_payment/going_abroad_and_social_welfare_payments.html