Missed collecting a JA payment due to a covid infection, now I'm being denied access to the payment

Appeal it if you can and what's more go to your local FF or FG TD (do not waste your time on a Green, SF, etc. Most departments are stacked with FF or FG over the decades) and tell them what happened and to champion the appeal for you and how you haven't two Penny's to rub together.

Not even joking, if you can turn on the waterworks it will benefit you a lot too. Also throw in how you always voted him/her and they are the only ones you can turn to, especially with polls at the moment they are nervous.

A quiet word from whatever TDs contact in the department will straighten it out I'll guarantee that. Just make sure to drop in a tub of sweets to the TDs secretary if it gets sorted, keep her sweet if you pardon the pun, as it will be most likely her sorting it. Plus you never know might need their help in future.

You can also go down the local welfare community officer and explain your situation, you had COVID and were trying to do the right thing and not infect anyone especially elderly who would use the PO more and again I stress, the waterworks. They might cut you cheque for something at the very least to keep you going.

Also SVDP would be very helpful if you worried about food, it would be something.

OP has nothing to loose by appealing. It they had signed on, got the payment a, then got covid or other illness the following day , and he unable to look for work or work, there is no way to clawback. So it is possible to be on JSA and not capable of work (due to illness) and not loose the payment

Oh for god's sake some of the "exhausted" over dramatics of posters on this thread need to calm tf down, or go have a nap or something.

They also need to stop behavng as if this board is their personal domain.

The fact is, the OP was denied their payment by an incompetent Officer whom they spoke to for "two minutes". That shouldn't have happened.

Whereas if they had informed INTREO in advance that they could not collect, that would not have happened.

An accommodation would have been made - it would have been held over for a few days at the post office. No changing to another payment. A deciding officer could have authorised this.

Now, funnily enough, when someone else pointed this out, and that post was liked by the very poster who is "so exhausted" at jumping all over me.

And I'm the one being called "petulant"? Talk about dramatics. No matter, it's water off a ducks back to me.

Now, back to the real world.

Oh and one final point - the temporary agent form WAS available for Covid19. Its literally printed on the form I linked too.

You've been handed your Arse & still at this absurd nonsense.

You may disagree with facts but offering factually incorrect information doesn't help the OP.

You claim to have been a Civil servant for 30 years to somehow justify your petulance. Everything with DSP is black & white, a person is entitled to a payment or not.

I've checked my spelling & hope it's up to "you're" exacting standards.

Actual experience. Something you don't have.

Goodbye.

...system goes duh! again....

...best of luck op....

So you were not a Civil servant for 30 years 🤔 Tut Tut, which is it

37 years and counting. Multiple departments.

How long have you been a serving civil servant?

Don't answer. I already know the answer. Putting you on ignore.

Did you read the opening post?

The OP said they were still testing positive after a few days, and they referred to the HSE guidelines which are still to self-isolate.

So it's incorrect to say its nothing to do with the guidelines when the OP referred to them.

So, you and others here can immediately jump to the conclusion that OP was up to something deliberately fraudulent, I took them at face value as we're supposed to do on this forum.

Now, y'all have a nice day.

There is not one single HSE guideline that prevented the OP sending an email to Intreo. There is not one single HSE guideline that stopped the OP from picking up the phone and ringing them.

Stop making a bloody show of yourself.

Missing you already, terrible to be caught out isn't it. I had a very successful career in Hospitality, travelled the world and just recently awarded DA, something I have posted about openly . You've chosen to insult people on here, that's bad enough but to keep up this pretence, you know anything about how DSP works is just embarrassing and posting factual incorrect information outrageous

Byeeeee 😉