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Job Seekers Allowance Transition JST

  • 04-09-2013 08:42PM
    #1
    danjo-xx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭


    1. JST was introduced with effect from 4th July 2013.
    2. It is a statutory provision, introduced by amendment to jobseeker’s allowance (JA) provisions in the Social Welfare Acts.
    3. Although recipients are JA customers the obligation to be unemployed, available for full-time work and genuinely seeking work does not apply to JST customers.

    The above was introduced with regard to one parent families.


    Will a similar waiver be introduced for people aged 65 on JSA next year who are waiting for the State Pension at 66.


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  • #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,235 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    There is a transition pension for people aged between 65 and 66 but that is being abolished in January 2014

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #3
    danjo-xx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭danjo-xx


    mango salsa wrote: »
    There is a transition pension for people aged between 65 and 66 but that is being abolished in January 2014

    That's correct but what happens after this is what I would like to know.

    Joan Burton has said that people who turn 65 in 2014 can apply for Jobseekers.

    But will they be given the Jobseekers Transition option!


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