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Working and benefits

  • 20-06-2016 6:15pm
    #1
    shugy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 409 ✭✭


    I've been on the BWEA for 20 months and it'll be coming to a end in a few months. It's been up and down with being very busy then quiet for awhile and in my sector, it's always quiet coming upto xmass up until spring. If I'm kept busy and goes quiet again in the months I mentioned, I'll have enough earned to look after myself untill then, however I'm worried incase I end up skint and nothing coming in next spring.
    I'm wondering will there be any benefits I'm entitled to where I can still work untill I've earned enough to come of them.

    I'm a hard working person and would hate to end up signing on again and not working. In my earnings, I can live happily on 13.5k a year and the dole is 7k but would prefer to be out contributing to society rather than sitting taking money from the government coffers.


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  • #2
    eastbono
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭eastbono


    You can apply for jobseekers allowance when you come off BTWEA. Your income from self employment will be assessed and its possible that you may receive some jobseekers depending on your income.


  • #3
    shugy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 409 ✭✭shugy


    eastbono wrote: »
    You can apply for jobseekers allowance when you come off BTWEA. Your income from self employment will be assessed and its possible that you may receive some jobseekers depending on your income.

    Will one be able to still work self employed?


  • #4
    Nono Toure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 312 ✭✭Nono Toure


    shugy wrote: »
    Will one be able to still work self employed?

    Yes, as far as I'm aware you can stay self-employed & work while also claiming some benefits. At the end of the day the govt don't want you going fully unemployed because you will then add to their unemployment numbers and that looks bad on them, they'd prefer to give you something & you stay working also.

    Surely someone on here knows more than me, and has possibly been in your shoes before and knows the ins & outs?


  • #5
    hairyslug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,596 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    I've just been looking this up, I may need to go with it but my circumstances are slightly different (self employed, low income but my wife has an income)

    From what I can see, and I could be quite wrong, you need to prove what you are earning as self employed and what you expect to make over the next 12 months less expenses. Then it's a means test, the jsa less your self employed income becomes your benefit.


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