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JobBridge ending, new job

  • 21-10-2016 7:17am
    #1
    HellSquirrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭


    My Jobbridge contract is coming to an end, and I've been offered a job from it. Which is wonderful and I'm delighted and relieved about, but I am worried about the next month. I just got a contract - and a letter telling me that I need to sign on at the other end of the country on Tuesday, which is obviously impossible. Besides, I now have a job and shouldn't be signing on.

    Thing is, I am a bit panicky as to how we're to survive between now and when I get paid first from this new job, in pretty much exactly one month from now. My partner and I will need to move house (due to a contract on the accom that was the length of the jobbridge), so there will be a rent payment to make there as well as here, pretty much in the middle of things.

    Has anyone been in this situation or do they know if there is allowances made for the month adjustment between going officially off the allowance and onto wages? Something that can be paid back is fine.

    I live waaay out in the wilds of nowhere at the moment; there is an Intreo office about forty kilometers away, but since I'm signed on originally at the other end of the country, not positive they'd know what to do with me.

    At the moment, my plan is to go in to that "local" Intreo and explain my situation, but am I likely to be taken in any way seriously? We can get a month's rent together, but god knows how we're to live for a month otherwise.


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Can't offer any help unfortunately but the position you are in is quite normal. Many folk when changing jobs, moving home, moving from weekly paid to monthly paid have close to nothing to manage on for a few weeks or the month.

    There might well be some assistance payment though.

    Maybe your existing landlord will be happy to extend your stay in your current home.


  • #3
    Elliot192
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 468 ✭✭Elliot192


    HellSquirrel wrote: »
    My Jobbridge contract is coming to an end, and I've been offered a job from it. Which is wonderful and I'm delighted and relieved about, but I am worried about the next month. I just got a contract - and a letter telling me that I need to sign on at the other end of the country on Tuesday, which is obviously impossible. Besides, I now have a job and shouldn't be signing on.

    Thing is, I am a bit panicky as to how we're to survive between now and when I get paid first from this new job, in pretty much exactly one month from now. My partner and I will need to move house (due to a contract on the accom that was the length of the jobbridge), so there will be a rent payment to make there as well as here, pretty much in the middle of things.

    Has anyone been in this situation or do they know if there is allowances made for the month adjustment between going officially off the allowance and onto wages? Something that can be paid back is fine.

    I live waaay out in the wilds of nowhere at the moment; there is an Intreo office about forty kilometers away, but since I'm signed on originally at the other end of the country, not positive they'd know what to do with me.

    At the moment, my plan is to go in to that "local" Intreo and explain my situation, but am I likely to be taken in any way seriously? We can get a month's rent together, but god knows how we're to live for a month otherwise.

    You can talk to the community welfare officer at your local Intreo. If you have no means they should be able to help you out. Congratulations on the job!


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