Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Why cant students get the dole ?

2»

Comments

  • #32
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    desultory wrote: »
    This isn't /b/ go away with your ratings

    What's a /b/? Speakey the Engly please. I don't speak nerd. G+
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »
    Naked?

    Is there any other kind? :p


  • #33
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,939 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Go to college as a mature student when you turn 23 and you can claim btea and also do some part time work too.


  • #34
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    rawn wrote: »
    Again, cos the dole is jobseekers. The SUSI grant is there for students.

    Did you think I am disagreeing with you?

    It's strange that in all my life I've never met a person on jobseekers allowance/benefit for more than a month that was seeking a job.


  • #35
    JerCotter7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 814 ✭✭✭JerCotter7


    If they have been on the dole for mine months before they go to college they can. You have to change it to a bank to education allowance then but there is only a few differences.


  • #36
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    figs666 wrote: »
    2014 sent roma gypsies to mug you

    Your mother rang. She said she'll be home in the morning and have the kettle on for her.


  • Advertisement
  • #37
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    Chris___ wrote: »
    Go to college as a mature student when you turn 23 and you can claim btea and also do some part time work too.

    Or take the year off after the leaving. Claim the dole for the nine month period required to get BTEA. That's how it used to be anyway.


  • #38
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Wait... Are students looking for free piss-up money or are we organising some kind of naked daddy wrestling match?


  • #39
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,939 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Un Croissant wrote: »
    Or take the year off after the leaving. Claim the dole for the nine month period required to get BTEA. That's how it used to be anyway.

    What about LC points etc do they carry over until the next year?


  • #40
    Henlars67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Henlars67


    Chris___ wrote: »
    What about LC points etc do they carry over until the next year?

    Do you not have to be over 23 to qualify for BTEA?


  • #41
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Fu*k 'em. That's why.


  • Advertisement
  • #42
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    Henlars67 wrote: »
    Do you not have to be over 23 to qualify for BTEA?

    Nope just nine months on a relevant social welfare payment


  • #43
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    Chris___ wrote: »
    What about LC points etc do they carry over until the next year?

    Yep. That's if you feel like being of questionable morals :/


  • #44
    bennyl10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,591 ✭✭✭bennyl10


    rawn wrote: »
    Again, cos the dole is jobseekers. The SUSI grant is there for students.

    The grant can not be compared to Dole.
    Live on 30 a month, which is what Sushi pay a lot of students.


  • #45
    Anita Blow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭Anita Blow


    Uepped wrote: »
    why cant students aged 18 and over get the dole during the school/college summer holidays ?

    The dole isn't there to give people free money for the sake of it. It's there as a temporary income until people who are actually available for full-time employment find work- hence the name "Jobseeker's Allowance". College students are not available for full-time work.


  • #46
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,939 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Un Croissant wrote: »
    Nope just nine months on a relevant social welfare payment

    In 2009/10

    To qualify for the Back to Education Allowance, you must be at least 21 years of age (24 years of age for a third-level postgraduate course). If you wish to attend a second level course you must be getting one of the social welfare payments listed below for at least 6 months. If you wish to attend a third level course you must be getting one of the social welfare payments listed below for 12 months (9 months if you are assessed and approved by FÁS under the National Employment Action Plan).

    2013/14
    To qualify for the Back to Education Allowance, you must be at least 21 years of age. You must be 24 for a third-level postgraduate course.

    However, if you are getting Jobseeker's Allowance, Jobseeker's Benefit or One-Parent Family Payment for the required period(3 months/78 days or 9 months/234 days), are aged between 18 and 20 and have been out of the formal education system for at least 2 years you may qualify.

    If you are aged 18 or over (over 24 for the post graduate option) and getting Blind Pension, Disability Allowance, Invalidity Pension or Incapacity Supplement for the required period (3 months/78 days or 9 months/234 days) you may qualify.


  • #47
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,347 ✭✭✭No Pants


    It's a strange one OP. Anyone can turn up at the dole office on their 18th birthday and start a JA claim, with no history of working and no intention of working (lying may be required). However, if you're working to educate yourself, you get nothing.


  • #48
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    You can probably claim the supplementary one if you really have nothing and are able to convince them that you have nothing. If mammies and daddies are part of the equation you'll be out of luck.


  • #49
    Awkward Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Awkward Badger


    You can. I'm on it now and will switch back to BTEA in Sept.


  • #50
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Went to college years ago in Limerick in Moylish. Back when it was CoACT. I finished 1st year and then went to the dole office and got the dole for the summer. Came September, I went into 2nd year.


  • #51
    Doylers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭Doylers


    Pugsly wrote: »
    You can. I'm on it now and will switch back to BTEA in Sept.

    Thats different though, we go from btea to dole to beta and around till were finished. Its great to have the allowance though no way I could afford to be in college without it, although its so stupid I had to sit on my hole for a year so I would be eligible for beta in the first place.

    Also I starting a job the end of this month so work is there for students just don't say your a student


  • Advertisement
  • #52
    seklly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭seklly


    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    1999 paged you, they want their retort back,
    kneemos wrote: »
    2009 e-mailed,they want ahh.....something.

    to party like it's...


  • #53
    Sunglasses Ron
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Sunglasses Ron


    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    1999 paged you, they want their retort back,

    WAZZZZZUPPPPPPPPP!!!!!


  • #54
    josealdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭josealdo


    Sunglasses Ron wrote: »
    WAZZZZZUPPPPPPPPP!!!!!

    TRUE


  • #55
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    figs666 wrote: »
    TRUE

    That's right


  • #56
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Henlars67 wrote: »
    As far as I know they can if they have previously worked at some stage.

    Open to correction on that, but pretty sure a friend of mine claimed it last summer, though she'd have built up quite a few stamps doing part time and summer work in previous years.

    Is she hot?


Advertisement