Living in a Motor home on JA

Nomis21

I will shortly inherit a VW motor home. It has bed, cooker etc and I am thinking of living in it until I find a job, as it will allow me to be more mobile and to look for work out of this rural area with few prospects, where I now live.

My rental contract expires and is not being renewed and so living in the motorhome seems like a good option until I find something more permanent. While I am living in the motorhome I will probably be parked at different places around the country.

I am on JA. I am over 62 and so am paid by bank transfer, not at the PO.
Will the DSP be likely to accept my residence as a mobile home?

I wanted to gauge an opinion on here before approaching them.

doolox

If you can satisfy whats known as the Habitual Residency Condition for receiving Social welfare then you should have no problems. If you do not have an address in Ireland in the future you need to find out how other transient groups manage to get payments in light of they not having a permanent address.

People over 62 are not obliged to attend interviews or job placement schemes at short notice, a reason why SW might require a permanent postal address to contact younger recipients in a hurry.

I do not think you have to sign on and you say that the payment goes through your bank.

If you had a friend, relation or other person who could allow you to use their address as a postal pick up point, and could check regularly for letters this may be a way to keep your payment.

I have personal experience of handling casual work and keeping SW payments, it is done through a casual docket system but it depends of the SW office you attend. I had to declare each day I got work and was docked 1/6 of my weekly rate for each days work got ( they count saturdays as a working day).

It means you must earn more than €30 per day to make it worthwhile working any particular day. If you can bulk up the work and do one 12 hr shift it works out better than 2 x 6 hrs shifts etc.....

Nomis21

Thanks Doolox. Yes I only have to sign on once a year.

While I was living where I am now I had a routine surprise visit one time from a Social Welfare inspector to check me out.

I was thinking that if I was living a mobile lifestyle then they wouldn't be able to do a surprise visit like that and that is why I thought they may object to me being mobile.

Any other opinions on this matter welcome.

doolox

If you could supply a mobile contact number to SW maybe they would allow this to happen that you would keep your payment.

This seems to be a case for contacting your local TD and getting them to search out the procedures followed in cases of no fixed abode.