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Going to America for 80 days

  • 09-01-2019 07:31AM
    #1
    Site Banned Posts: 32


    Hey all
    I am on a dissibilty allowance payment of 198.00,euro a week payed electronic to my bank account each week, and I am going on holiday for 80 days in New york, will the DA still pay this when I'm abroad and do I have to notify them of my vacation


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭Funkfield


    80 day holiday?!?!?!


  • Site Banned Posts: 32 Question96


    Funkfield wrote: »
    80 day holiday?!?!?!
    Sure am


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    It will be stopped, or worse if you didn't inform them and they had to discover it themselves.

    But think about it, what's wrong with pausing the payment while you are over there? 198 euro per week is a lot of money and the State have been good enough to support you week in week out to date. There are others in the country who need support, that's the logic.

    Best wishes and enjoy the holiday.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭judeboy101


    Well that beats banagher.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭Car99


    Disability Allowance can be paid if you are studying an approved course outside the State under the Back to Education Allowance scheme or getting medical treatment not available in Ireland. You must notify the Department and provide proof of medical treatment or education abroad. Under legislation you have no entitlement to be paid Disability Allowance while on holiday. However, in practice Disability Allowance may be paid for 2-3 weeks while you are on holiday abroad. You should inform the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection before you go on holiday.


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  • Site Banned Posts: 32 Question96


    Car99 wrote: »
    Disability Allowance can be paid if you are studying an approved course outside the State under the Back to Education Allowance scheme or getting medical treatment not available in Ireland. You must notify the Department and provide proof of medical treatment or education abroad. Under legislation you have no entitlement to be paid Disability Allowance while on holiday. However, in practice Disability Allowance may be paid for 2-3 weeks while you are on holiday abroad. You should inform the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection before you go on holiday.[/quote

    How do dissibilty know your abroad as it gets paid through my bank?


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 57,588 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    OP, it seems you want people to advise you on the situation. Not informing the Department of your holiday and continuing to receive the payment means you are in essence committing welfare fraud. No one on this forum is going to tell you that is the correct course of action.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    When you accepted Disabilty you agreed to let them know if there was a change in your circumstances.
    If you don’t let them know that you’re leaving for nearly 3 months then you’re breaking that agreement.
    When they discover that you were gone your payment will be suspended. There will be a huge investigation into your whole claim which will go on for months indefinitely in which period you won’t have any payment and you really don’t want all this hassle so just let them know and accept that you can’t have DA while your abroad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,766 ✭✭✭RossieMan


    This has got to be a troll.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,716 ✭✭✭ayux4rj6zql2ph


    How the hell can someone on welfare afford a near 3 month holiday in the states?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    How the hell can someone on welfare afford a near 3 month holiday in the states?

    Someone could be treating them as a gift.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    Question96 wrote: »

    How do dissibilty know your abroad as it gets paid through my bank?

    Now that's where you are going down a dangerous path. Sher how would they know. Sher I'll be grand. If anything happens sher I'll do x, y, and z.

    You are fooling yourself.

    All you need to know is that you thought through this for one afternoon, and made a few posts on this forum. The Department on the other hand are dealing with this day in day out long before you were even born. Do you think you are the only one who thought they'd come up with a genius plan?

    Hammered would be an understatement with what will happen if you try pull a fast one. Don't even try it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    The Op apparently smokes 20 a day! Ah, the good old disability allowance. ......

    I'd like to hear how they are funding their lifestyle in particular a "vacation " for 80 days


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,201 ✭✭✭Explosive_Cornflake


    How the hell can someone on welfare afford a near 3 month holiday in the states?

    They could be staying with Family either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,766 ✭✭✭RossieMan


    He also has a Mac book Pro and a 4k TV.

    Troll skills need improving.


  • Site Banned Posts: 32 Question96


    i have family over there , i buy my cigarettes of the Dealers , and i got a lump some from my ex employer to answer your questions


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    Enjoy your holiday.......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,082 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Even the lump sum could be an issue. Sounds like you get 200 a week you don't even need, but you'll take it, why not, you're entitled to it on paper. Only in Ireland.

    To be honest it seems every week is a holiday and you still get the money, how is leaving the country and doing nothing any different than being in the country and doing nothing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,301 ✭✭✭✭gerrybbadd


    Question96 wrote: »
    i have family over there , i buy my cigarettes of the Dealers , and i got a lump some from my ex employer to answer your questions

    The "Dealers"? So not an ounce of excise being paid either? Further defrauding the State


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭marieholmfan


    gerrybbadd wrote: »
    The "Dealers"? So not an ounce of excise being paid either? Further defrauding the State

    Fair play OP we'd all do it. Keep the head down and the mouth shut and enjoy the holiday!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,082 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    gerrybbadd wrote: »
    The "Dealers"? So not an ounce of excise being paid either? Further defrauding the State




    Ahh but the state is defrauding the people far more than the people are defrauding the state. Ireland is so corrupt that's a fact.


    Ireland has been deemed one of the most corrupt countries in the western world.
    ''UP to 50 secret bank accounts, money laundering, fraud on a massive scale... and this is just the police force... welcome to the most corrupt country in the Western world''


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,345 ✭✭✭davo2001


    Fair play OP we'd all do it.

    Personally I wouldn't, I don't like being a parasite and sitting on my arse doing **** all all day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭marieholmfan


    davo2001 wrote: »
    Personally I wouldn't, I don't like being a parasite and sitting on my arse doing **** all all day.
    It might be a bit un PC to say this but the real parasites are the bankers and politicians.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,345 ✭✭✭davo2001


    It might be a bit un PC to say this but the real parasites are the bankers and politicians.

    And the lazy ****s scrounging off the state and yet are able to go on 80 day holidays, buy 4k TVs and Apple equipment.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 57,588 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Fair play OP we'd all do it. Keep the head down and the mouth shut and enjoy the holiday!

    We.... as in you, perhaps. I prefer my activities to be non-criminal tbh ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,716 ✭✭✭ayux4rj6zql2ph


    splinter65 wrote: »
    Someone could be treating them as a gift.

    Jasus I’d love a gift like that


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,716 ✭✭✭ayux4rj6zql2ph


    They could be staying with Family either.

    A family funding 80 days holidays possibly? Nice!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,320 ✭✭✭airy fairy


    Do you not need certs from a doctor for DA?


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 57,588 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    airy fairy wrote: »
    Do you not need certs from a doctor for DA?

    No, stupidly. You're thinking of Illness Benefit where certs are required to be sent on a regular basis in order to receive the payment.

    I do think a regular assessment period for DA would be a good idea though.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,320 ✭✭✭airy fairy


    Necro wrote: »
    No, stupidly. You're thinking of Illness Benefit where certs are required to be sent on a regular basis in order to receive the payment.

    I do think a regular assessment period for DA would be a good idea though.

    You serious?
    So you just get 'sick' or unable to work for some reason, and off you go, you get paid, nothing more said?


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