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Unemployed - Want to move away from home

  • 18-06-2016 10:00pm
    #1
    deadybai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I currently live at home and receive €100 from JSA each week. I am currently looking to move into the city where there are better job prospects then where I currently am.

    What benefits, if any, are there for someone in my situation? Obviously €100 isn't enough.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    None that I'm aware of.


    If you qualify for the housing list (extremely unlikely if you're young, healthy, single with no kids), you'd be eligible for rent allowance.

    Otherwise, to get rent allowance you'd need to be already privately renting for six months, AND have a change in circumstances that prevents you paying your rent.


    If you're looking for jobs in a more built up area, tbh the best advice I can give you is to get a cheap bike on adverts or donedeal and use it to get around.


  • #3
    dobbs2210
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 508 ✭✭✭dobbs2210


    I thought you had to be renting for 6 months regardless to qualify for rent allowance. I wasn’t aware that if you are receiving JSA and on tge social housing list that you can get rebt allowance before having the 6 months rent completed....


  • #4
    wokingvoter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 828 ✭✭✭wokingvoter


    Rent allowance is being phased out now anyway but it was always the case that if you had been renting a place for 6 months at least and had been able to afford the rent when you moved in ( ie that you had a job) but now had lost your job, that you had met some of the criteria for rent allowance


  • #5
    deadybai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭deadybai


    Would the money I currently receive go up if I moved out ?


  • #6
    wokingvoter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 828 ✭✭✭wokingvoter


    deadybai wrote: »
    Would the money I currently receive go up if I moved out ?

    How old are you?


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  • #7
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    deadybai wrote: »
    Would the money I currently receive go up if I moved out ?

    Is your €100 based on your age?

    If it's the maximum for your age, it won't go up until you hit the higher pay/age bracket.


  • #8
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,696 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    deadybai wrote: »
    Would the money I currently receive go up if I moved out ?

    You'd be better off getting a job before making the jump to the city, if you don't have any experience go for some bar jobs in hotels/pubs they can be easier to get as they'll try someone with no experience, also can get a good few hours even though the pay might not be great but plenty of hours will make up a little for it, at least that gets you stared and a few quid in your pocket and you can pursue the job you want once the cash is coming in.
    If your heading for the city head for the Center, jobs like this I'm on about https://www.jobs.ie/ApplyForJob.aspx?Id=1231350
    Nothing stopping you working in 2/3 pubs at the one time, help you pick up 50hrs or so a week.
    Once employers see your working there a lot more inclined to take you on regardless of what work that is. If you have a job you'll get a job is very true.


  • #9
    stefanovich
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,490 ✭✭✭stefanovich


    Get a job, then move out.


  • #10
    deadybai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭deadybai


    wokingvoter wrote:
    How old are you?

    wokingvoter wrote:
    How old are you?

    I'm 23


  • #11
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    deadybai wrote: »
    I'm 23

    You'll be kept on the €100 if you move out, because you're on the maximum allowable amount for your age.


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  • #12
    RossieMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,766 ✭✭✭RossieMan


    What have you worked at so far? Did you get a degree? Surely something local you could get experience with.


  • #13
    wokingvoter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 828 ✭✭✭wokingvoter


    deadybai wrote: »
    I'm 23

    You can't afford to move out. If you want to emancipate yourself from your family then you need to get a job, any job at all that will pay you at least minimum wage (€9.15) for 40 hours per week, then find the cheapest accommodation you can get if you want to be independent and have privacy.
    Sharing with others is a cheaper way to take that big step.
    Life on JSA and RA/HAP is not a life it is at best an existence.
    Any rotten job is better then that.


  • #14
    smjm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 407 ✭✭smjm


    deadybai wrote: »
    Hi all,

    I currently live at home and receive €100 from JSA each week. I am currently looking to move into the city where there are better job prospects then where I currently am.

    What benefits, if any, are there for someone in my situation? Obviously €100 isn't enough.

    Thanks.

    If you try and get a pub/hotel job, as mentioned, just to get yourself working, then maybe look for one that offers low-cost staff accommodation. Two birds with one stone type of thing! :)


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