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JSA and JSB

  • 26-08-2010 12:45PM
    #1
    Gus99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭


    From reading this forum for a while, it strikes me that Ireland differs from a lot of European countries by giving a blanket figure in terms of JSA/JSB (generally, €196 now max for both, apart from under 25s).

    Other countries give a much higher amount to people who have made more of a contribution themselves previously when they were working - is this not much fairer, and would allow the amount paid to the "career dolers" to be reduced, thereby incentivising them to take up low-paid work?


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  • #2
    Nijmegen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Nijmegen


    Many other countries in the EU also means test things progressively, and in a linked up system of tax and benefits that stretches across your lifetime, recognising that we all have different abilities to pay and needs to receive at different times in our lives and according to different circumstances.

    In Ireland, you have this massive ham fist that flails around wildly and rarely hits the mark.


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