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Stay at home parent back to work: register for Jobseekers Payment

  • 22-08-2020 6:45pm
    #1
    minnow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭


    Hi,
    My wife has been a stay at home mother for 8 years and is ready to get back to work. She hasn't been claiming any SW to date.
    She hasn't had any luck finding work so far. When we looked into CE schemes, we found that you need to be in receipt of Jobseekers Payment for 12 months to be eligible.
    Is there an advantage to her registering now for Jobseekers Allowance? She would not receive much money (based on means test) but it would potentially make get eligible for CE or other scheme in time.
    Note: Jobseekers Benefit not applicable for to insufficient PRSI contributions.
    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,292 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    I think she's also not eligible for JSA, because she hasn't lost full time employment.

    BUT I think there's another category of eligibility for CE etc, based on stay-at-home parents re-entering the workforce. The 12-months job-seeker support is the standard criteria, not the only one.


  • #3
    Sonrisa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 134 ✭✭Sonrisa


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    I think she's also not eligible for JSA, because she hasn't lost full time employment.

    BUT I think there's another category of eligibility for CE etc, based on stay-at-home parents re-entering the workforce. The 12-months job-seeker support is the standard criteria, not the only one.

    She should be eligible for JSA. She must prove that she is unemployed, not that she has lost employment. The qualifying criteria are:

    To qualify for Jobseeker's Allowance a person must:

    be habitually resident in the state
    be unemployed
    be over 18 and under pension age (66)
    be capable of work
    be available for work
    be genuinely seeking work
    satisfy the condition as to means
    prove unemployment in the prescribed manner

    It sounds like she will fulfill all of the above. See https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/1a5134-operational-guidelines-jobseekers-allowance/

    She should definitely apply if she is now genuinely seeking work as as you have seen this will open the door to CE schemes and things like back to education allowance. She should also have a look at springboard courses?


  • #4
    minnow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭minnow


    Thanks for replies. She has applied for JSA, still waiting on response. If she could get on a CE scheme that would be fantastic. I suppose we just keep pushing with Intreo?


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