Government Benefits Megathread

Hi, are you nearing an end to your PUP entitlement 🤔 just curious what the process is, I'd presumed Jobseekers benefit if enough stamps. Is there a face to face required or just fill in apication form with supporting documents? can application be done online ? Very little info about the process.

Wording for bank Holidays has always been confusing, it said the same thing last few bank Holidays , my guess is whilst PUP is paid into accounts Tuesday its processed for payment on Mondays, if that makes sense

Glad you got some clarity and hopefully it will be sorted out for you quickly 😏

That makes absolutely no sense particularly if your wife was only on PUP for 2 weeks. Those who were on PUP had their tax free allowance reduced and had the option of paying whatever was owed (miniscule for 2 weeks PUP) in one lump sum or have TFA reduced over a number of years, this was essentially aimed at those who were on pup for much longer periods.

At a minimum she need to contact revenue and query this. Even though she was only on pup for 2 weeks, when she returned to work, her employer put her on week one for tax purposes, this was Revenue's decision, I'm wondering is she actually paying emergency tax also 🤔 perhaps she also needs to query this with her employers payroll department, but certainly something seriously wrong.

I'm not a tax expert I might add and I base my answer on my own experience of PUP, obviously I'm not aware if you have seperate TFA or if TFA assigned to one of you as some married couples do.

It's a little complicated but yes is the Answer however what the amount will be or how it effects your other social welfare payment is a little more unclear.

Scroll down on attached link to other welfare payments and EIB .

You might get more responses in the state benefits thread 😏

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/disability_and_illness/covid19_enhanced_illness_benefit.html#lac761

No problem, if you look under state benefits forum , there's a thread on this topic an excellent Mod, Cherry Blossom was in the same situation, very helpful . Good luck

Reckon I'll have to do the same thing

Odd that I sent a pic of the tests and packaging and on mywelfare it says 'enchanted illness benefit' awarded with the start date been 3rd Jan. Not convinced its actually approved

I am sure there is a good bit of a backlog when it comes to Enhanced Illness Benefit.

My son applied on the 20th of Dec, only got paid today, the 6th of Jan.

Employer should not be taking annual leave from him.

It's actually really, really disgraceful behaviour for the employer to do that, and illegal to use annual leave when sick.

He was on sick leave - If employer pays sick leave, then they pay it and that's that. They can't take annual leave from them.

By right, what should be happening there is if employer does pay sick leave, give the annual leave days back. If they don't pay sick leave (as per contract), then annual leave days should be given back, enhanced illness benefit applied for and retrospectively the pay by the employer is given back to them.

By the law, that should be what happens I would say, however I'm not in Employment Law!

I suppose they could just leave it be so and accept the lost annual leave if that won't F up future days they wanted.

If they want to go by the law though I'm not even sure of the next step to take.

Still no payment for the EIB

Claim awarded one day and closed the next, not a word from the social

Frustrating

Did anyone get paid the EIB that were told to self isolate ?

I was demmed a close contact and had to self isolate for 5 days and take the HSE Antigen Tests. Of course no text or email from them to confirm they sent them out. Awarded the benefit one day and then claim closed the other

No joy from an email I sent, **** infuriating