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Working and rent allowance.

Sparkly Blonde · 2017-02-11 13:11:13

I have been offered one weeks contract work in may. It's only for 1 week and I will only work 2 days of the week but the money is great and potential to get more work. I am currently cohabitating and my other half is receiving JSA for us and our 3 children. We also recieve rent allowance. My question is when I take the…

11-02-2017 1:11pm

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Sparkly Blonde

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I have been offered one weeks contract work in may. It's only for 1 week and I will only work 2 days of the week but the money is great and potential to get more work. I am currently cohabitating and my other half is receiving JSA for us and our 3 children. We also recieve rent allowance. My question is when I take the work do I lose out on rent allowance for that month? And do I lose the JSA for the 5 of us that week too

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#2 11-02-2017 6:41pm

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Have a read here http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/irish_social_welfare_system/means_test_for_social_welfare_payments/work_and_jobseekers_allowance.html

and here http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/supplementary_welfare_schemes/rent_supplement.html

Bottom line you will not lose all of you jsa for the week only some,ditto on the rent allowance IMO

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