Income disregard re supplementary welfare allowance

Jme710

Hi,
We receive rent allowance and our oldest son who is 18 and in full time education, wants to get a part time job. I rang Citizens Advice for info on how this would affect our R.A., but they didn't know.
I think there is such a thing as an income disregard of €75 a week that is not counted as income, over the basic supplementary welfare allowance for your family size, but to be honest, I'm not very clear on what this means. Our son is a dependent. My husband (early 60's) lost his job almost 3 years ago, and is on jobseekers allowance.
Any help/advice on this would be greatly appreciated, as I'm at a complete loss. You would think it would be easy to find information but there's nothing whatsoever online. No one seems to know anything at all about it.
Thanks everyone in advance

zell12

SWA is basic income.

Any work income will be deducted unless:
€120.00 of earnings from rehabilitative employment are exempt

Squatter

Jme710 wrote: »

You would think it would be easy to find information but there's nothing whatsoever online.

Yes there is!

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/supplementary_welfare_schemes/calculating_rent_supplement.html

(see Step 3 for income disregard!)

Jme710

Thank you splinter65!
Much appreciated