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  • 24-05-2017 9:24am
    #1
    hawkeye_bmr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    I would like some advice regarding my partners current situation.

    I'm Irish, she is English. We moved back to Ireland, from Australia in June 2015, she found work and started working in July 2015 and was in continuous employment until August 2016.

    Early August 2016 she had a car crash (single vehicle, no-one or nothing else damaged) while travelling to work in which she suffered soft tissue damage on her back and shoulders.
    She was on injury benefit until February this year, as this can only be claimed for 6 months. She was off work as sick, but they do not do pay her sick pay.

    She then applied for disablement benefit as she was told she could not apply for illness benefit due to not having enough credits.

    She has been told she needs to get a medical review for the disability claim to be process, but has been waiting for an appointment for the last 2 months.

    She has been handing in weekly sick certs since the accident, even though she is getting €0 at the minute, the doctors is a 70 minute round trip costing her about €15/petrol.

    She had a meeting with her employer in which she was terminated to to illness and them not having an alternative position to offer her. That was in mid April.

    We bought a house together in the July before the accident, so we have mortgage payments, mortgage& life insurance, electric bill, car insurance for both cars, car running costs, food costs, etc, etc..so by the time all of that comes out of my wage (27k gross) there isn't much left to save.

    Her shoulder and neck are still very weak, even lifting a kettle of water is painful, so she is fit to return to work (where there is manual handling involved), but she wants a career change from hospitality to office/admin, but to do this she will need to do some courses which she can't get because she isn't on an allowance.

    She has been told she can't get job seekers either as she is currently sick, but surely this would only apply to her returning to her former type of employment?
    Could her doctor sign her off the sick, stating that office based/light work would be fine?
    Could she then apply for job seekers to allow her to get on some courses?
    Are her weekly sick certs counting towards her credits?

    Thanks for any help you can offer...


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