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Free tv licence on JSA?

  • 02-03-2010 09:25AM
    #1
    peppy007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭


    Hi,
    if a couple living together are both on JSA, does that mean they can avail of a free tv licence?

    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    GerardKeating
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    peppy007 wrote: »
    Hi,
    if a couple living together are both on JSA, does that mean they can avail of a free tv licence?

    Thanks.

    There is no free TV licence for any one on the JSA, couple or single.


  • #3
    dlambirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭dlambirl


    AFAIK its only old age pensioners that get the household benefits package that includes the free TV licence.

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/social-welfare/social-welfare-payments/extra-social-welfare-benefits/household_benefits_package


  • #4
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    EDIT: no its just for pensioners


  • #5
    PCPhoto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,584 ✭✭✭PCPhoto


    does that mean that the licence inspectors will be visiting co-habiting couples on JSA and/or JSB


  • #6
    Tiddlers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭Tiddlers


    Yes,I got a visit last week though I'm on the dole and my partner isn't anymore. WE've been living where we are for a year and it's not the first time he's called and we still haven't paid it. Does anyone know if you can pay the licence in installments or does it have to be in one go?


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  • #7
    Nehaxak
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,717 ✭✭✭Nehaxak


    Yeah you can pay a little off it every week via the post office.


  • #8
    Tiddlers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭Tiddlers


    Nehaxak wrote: »
    Yeah you can pay a little off it every week via the post office.

    Great,thanks for letting me know. :)


  • #9
    seahorse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭seahorse


    Nehaxak wrote: »
    Yeah you can pay a little off it every week via the post office.

    No you can't. You can only get a book from the post office and buy €4 tokens each week towards the cost of your next licence, not substitute it for a current one.

    Sorry to have to tell you that OP, the tv licence is pure robbery!


  • #10
    Fionn MacCool
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Fionn MacCool


    Just don't pay it. It's ridiculously easy not to get caught/in trouble for it and it's a rip off for the rubbish you get anyway.


  • #11
    Nehaxak
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,717 ✭✭✭Nehaxak


    Nah Seahorse, you can work it out with the Post Office that you can either pay something off the licence you should have now and/or off the one you're due to renew in the future. Yes it's stamps. Just talk with them and it's usually no problem, I do it myself as otherwise I'd tell them to go shove it if they wanted the payment upfront, I don't have it to give them anyway.

    Personally I'd prefer to be given a choice, pay a licence and get to watch Irish TV/listen to Irish radio or don't pay it and don't get to watch/listen. Reckon there wouldn't be many in the country willing to pay for the crap we get if we had the choice though.


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