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Agency work while on Social Welfare?

  • 06-08-2018 12:53pm
    #1
    Nodferatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭


    I'm currently on unemployment assist. I was on a Education Training Board (ETB) training course up until June last and I have just qualified as a Healthcare Assistant. I went back to Social Welfare payment as soon as my course finished. I have just signed up with an agency and am about to begin work very shortly.

    My query is this... I was in my local social welfare office and I asked the lady how many hours I can work before I would be cut off from social welfare! She told me I can work 3 days maximum before I would be disqualified. I asked her how many hours and she wouldn't give me an answer, kinda hum'd and haw'd about it.

    I would ideally like a full time job and work a full 40 hr week, but that's not gonna happen a a HCA I'm NOT guaranteed the hours in an agency.
    So I'd like to work up to 3 days through the agency and be entitled to some sort of welfare payment because I can't work 30 hours this week, 10 hours next week and maybe no work the following week. That inconsistency in income would make me homeless, I got bills and rent and loans to pay off like everyone else. I want to know how many hours I can definitely work before welfare will cut me off. I'm assuming as a HCA if I were to work three 12-hour shifts that's considered full-time! So what's considered part-time, and what's considered full-time?

    Has anyone else been in this situation! I thought I'd pose the question and get advice before heading back to my local welfare office again. Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    BBOC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭BBOC


    I think the amount of hours won't matter......I could be wrong though.
    As far as I know you must not be employed every weekday and then you would receive SW for the other days.....I think they use dockets for this and if you got a full weeks work then you just don't need the docket that week.
    I only replied as nobody else has and I'm sure somebody will come along who knows more about this than me.


  • #3
    Nodferatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Nodferatu


    BBOC wrote: »
    I think the amount of hours won't matter......I could be wrong though.
    As far as I know you must not be employed every weekday and then you would receive SW for the other days.....I think they use dockets for this and if you got a full weeks work then you just don't need the docket that week.
    I only replied as nobody else has and I'm sure somebody will come along who knows more about this than me.

    Thank you for responding, I'll have to just ring them and see if I get any answers as to how that works.


  • #4
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    You can go on casual work.
    You get a docket and mark the days you work/don't work.
    If you work more than 3 days, you get no payment that week no matter what the number of hours are.
    1 hour constitutes a day's work so be careful.


  • #5
    FurBabyMomma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭FurBabyMomma


    Elliana Short Kettle wrote: »
    You can go on casual work.
    You get a docket and mark the days you work/don't work.
    If you work more than 3 days, you get no payment that week no matter what the number of hours are.
    1 hour constitutes a day's work so be careful.

    Yes, I got a sub teaching job that was just over 7 hours a week, but because it was spread over 5 days I wasn't entitled to any assistance, whereas I would have been if it had been over 3.


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