Social Welfare Payment In Bank Or PO?

malcy

I am coming to the end of a 22 month Gateway scheme course and will be shortly going back on to the dole. Before the course i got my payment payed into the bank every week. This was extremely handy as it meant my rent, standing orders etc would come out of the bank on pay day meaning i didn't hVe to worry about spending what i didn't have.

As far as i know i will now be getting paid in the post office every week. Meaning i will have to pay the money into the bank each week and re-arrange standing orders etc. Is it possible to request that i get paid into the bank? I understand that a lot of people were abusing the system by not having to be at the post office to collect it every week and therefor not being in the country the majority of the month.

I can easily prove the transactions made from the ATM machines here to show that i'm not absconding for weeks on end and not looking for work.

Thanks.

FloatingVoter

Only casual workers and those 62 and over can qualify for EFT to the bank jobseekers payments. There are a few other individual case by case exceptions but as it stands the post office is the only option.

Whiplashy

I signed on about a month ago and I was given the choice between bank or post office. I'm nowhere near my sixties 😂

malcy

Whiplashy wrote: »

I signed on about a month ago and I was given the choice between bank or post office. I'm nowhere near my sixties 😂

That's promising. Thanks. Would make life a lot easier.

January

Husband had appointment today. Post office only offered to him

malcy

I'll be reauesting the choice for bank payments anyway so fingers crossed they hear my reasons.

MiskyBoyy

If you're with AIB or Ulster Bank you can lodge cash straight into your bank account from the post office.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Can't you lodge into your bank account at the post office counter? Nearly sure Ulster Bank, or AIB allow it.

malcy

Not with either of those banks, my have to switch. Sick of the BOI anyway. Atrocious bank.