TUS Programme

Adnan44 · 10-11-2015 02:34PM

Anyone have contact email address or number for Tus please

denlaw · 10-11-2015 03:18PM

i finished my tus last friday week and i'm still waiting for my dole payment...gob****es in the SW office only got round to it today..so much for the seemless going back on the dole..

its a pity it wasn't for 3 yrs, i enjoyed what i was doing, it was with the soccer club i'm involved with so it wasn't a chore...

denlaw · 10-11-2015 03:21PM

and i have to say the lads from tus who were over me (despite being about 20yrs younger than me) were proper gentlemen, not one bit of *i'm the boss* off them at all...which is always a bonus..

jos22 · 10-11-2015 10:14PM

Adnan44 wrote: »

Anyone have contact email address or number for Tus please

Tus contact details is different for each town/ city

Google your location and tus you prob find who is running the scheme in your location

Craic Addict · 10-11-2015 11:02PM

denlaw wrote: »

i finished my tus last friday week and i'm still waiting for my dole payment...gob****es in the SW office only got round to it today..so much for the seemless going back on the dole..

its a pity it wasn't for 3 yrs, i enjoyed what i was doing, it was with the soccer club i'm involved with so it wasn't a chore...

Ah feck sake, I'm finished December 7th so if there dragging their heels about this still I will be broke for Christmas.

Is this still common?

jos22 · 10-11-2015 11:47PM

Craic Addict wrote: »

Ah feck sake, I'm finished December 7th so if there dragging their heels about this still I will be broke for Christmas.

Is this still common?

It can take 2-3 weeks, but this can be delayed depending on when you call in to them to re-open you claim.
this can also depend on your local office
some office will not let you get the ball rolling until your placement has finished, but others will allow you to do it the week you due to finish up.

if your dole is payed from wed -Tuesday normally and you call in on the Monday. by the time your claim has gone through the stages it would be at least a week before your payment would be available in the post office.

so I would Recommend checking to see if you can get the process start the week you due to finish to avoid delays. at least call in to get the paper work.
some Tus offices provides these to you but others will not.

When I finished up, It took 2 weeks, but I was lucky enough to have gotten a job in that time frame.

Craic Addict · 12-11-2015 05:18PM

Thanks, coincidentally I woke up to a letter this morning with an appointment for the day I finish.
The social welfare must be watching the forum

Craic Addict · 23-11-2015 02:01PM

Just wondering if anyone who finished their year recently can remember how much they got paid the last week?
I heard its only 70 but I hope not.

racso1975 · 23-11-2015 07:15PM

Craic Addict wrote: »

Just wondering if anyone who finished their year recently can remember how much they got paid the last week?
I heard its only 70 but I hope not.

That all depends on how many days are in your last week. If you work a full week you get full pay.

dodzy · 30-11-2015 04:59PM

Craic Addict wrote: »

Just wondering if anyone who finished their year recently can remember how much they got paid the last week?
I heard its only 70 but I hope not.

The payroll is process one week in advance. That said, it would be normal to receive a full week on week 52 of your placement.

Just be aware, and this applies to all people who complete their placement, when you commenced on the program, you received 4 days payment from SW and a full week in your nominated bank account during week 1.

In week 52 you will receive, a full week from Tus, and then in the first week back on SW, you only be entitled to 2 days payment (as the week does indeed run from Wed-Tue), so it'll be the 2nd week before you're back to normality in terms of benefit.

butterfly28 · 30-11-2015 05:50PM

Does anyone know if you're entitled to move from the Tus Scheme to an Internship if you get taken on for an internship??

30-11-2015 05:54PM

butterfly28 wrote: »

Does anyone know if you're entitled to move from the Tus Scheme to an Internship if you get taken on for an internship??

I believe it is possible. Ask in your local welfare office.

jmcgill16 · 07-01-2016 12:31AM

Bumping a slightly old thread but hope its OK as this seems to be the most definite one on the topic. There seem to be quite a few posters here with either lots of experience of dealing with the department or who might actually be TUS Supevisors - either way they know their stuff.

I received a letter "inviting" me to join a TUS progamme today. From reading this thread this invite does not seem to be optional. I'm however already enrolled on a 30hour a week FAS course that starts this coming Monday.

If I reply to the letter declining the invitation, giving my attendance of the FAS course as my reason, will that be accepted?

Zippe · 07-01-2016 12:34AM

jmcgill16 wrote: »

Bumping a slightly old thread but hope its OK as this seems to be the most definite one on the topic. There seem to be quite a few posters here with either lots of experience of dealing with the department or who might actually be TUS Supevisors - either way they know their stuff.

I received a letter "inviting" me to join a TUS progamme today. From reading this thread this invite does not seem to be optional. I'm however already enrolled on a 30hour a week FAS course that starts this coming Monday.

If I reply to the letter declining the invitation, giving my attendance of the FAS course as my reason, will that be accepted?

Hi,
Send in a copy of the letter of your start date and a not with it, that will do, give them a call also, once you tell them your starting on gas they can get it confirmed also,

Zip

laurenceltic · 07-01-2016 08:23PM

Is it possible for a tus work placement be extended? or is it 12 months and that's it

Dunny · 07-01-2016 08:45PM

12 months and that's it.

Unless the employer takes you on themselves.

dodzy · 09-01-2016 12:10AM

laurenceltic wrote: »

Is it possible for a tus work placement be extended? or is it 12 months and that's it

In many cases, people transfer to CE after their Tus placement has finished and some have remained within the same organisation.

karen29070 · 23-01-2016 02:04PM

Hi i want to leave my tus placement. Has anyone else left? i just don't know how to go about it. My supervisor is a bit of a tit but i guess i need to tell him first. I hate it & do have a couple of reasons for wanting to leave, mental health would be one. I would be grateful for any advice please

dodzy · 26-01-2016 11:49AM

karen29070 wrote: »

Hi i want to leave my tus placement. Has anyone else left? i just don't know how to go about it. My supervisor is a bit of a tit but i guess i need to tell him first. I hate it & do have a couple of reasons for wanting to leave, mental health would be one. I would be grateful for any advice please

Speak to your Supervisor. Not every placement will be a match made in heaver and from time to time, there will be issues, in some cases best addressed by removing the participant from the placement and potentially relocating them with another host, or referring them back to DSP.

fryup · 27-01-2016 12:24AM

laurenceltic wrote: »

Is it possible for a tus work placement be extended? or is it 12 months and that's it

Dunny wrote: »

12 months and that's it.

Unless the employer takes you on themselves.

employer?? i thought all tus jobs were community based

dodzy · 27-01-2016 08:50AM

fryup wrote: »

employer?? i thought all tus jobs were community based

yes, technically they are. But the community based bit typically refers to where you are actually placed for your 12mths. The local partnerships are the actual employer. They issue the contract and they are responsible for ensuring payroll is processed, holidays are taken, disciplinary issues are dealt with etc;

Some participants have been employed by the overseeing partnership either after their placement or before the 12mths are up, if the candidate is suitable and a position becomes available. The same situation occurs within host organisations, albeit both cases not being that common.

karen29070 · 30-01-2016 07:14PM

dodzy wrote: »

Speak to your Supervisor. Not every placement will be a match made in heaver and from time to time, there will be issues, in some cases best addressed by removing the participant from the placement and potentially relocating them with another host, or referring them back to DSP.

Ok thanks. Maybe i could just ask her if anything else is available, i don't think i can face going back to DSP

Raymond97 · 01-02-2016 07:15PM

how much extra would i get if i do tus? im 19 and get 100 euro a week. any ideas?

Tiat Young · 01-02-2016 08:36PM

Raymond97 wrote: »

how much extra would i get if i do tus? im 19 and get 100 euro a week. any ideas?

Copied and pasted from Citizens Information

The minimum weekly payment for participants (based on 19.5 hours worked) is €210.50 from January 2016.

If the actual Jobseeker’s Allowance (including dependants) you were getting was €188 a week or less, then you will get the minimum Tús weekly rate of €210.50 (that is €188 plus €22.50). If your actual weekly Jobseeker’s Allowance (including dependants) was €188.01 or more, then you will get the equivalent rate plus €22.50.

dodzy · 02-02-2016 03:04PM

Raymond97 wrote: »

how much extra would i get if i do tus? im 19 and get 100 euro a week. any ideas?

Tiat's reply is spot on, assuming of course you are eligible (in receipt of JA for a minimum continuous period of 12mths)

Tommy Kelly · 07-02-2016 06:03PM

Anyone know what the situation is regarding working in the rain?

I'm currently working on a CE Scheme and no matter what the weather is I am expected to go out and work. Given the nature of the work I have to do, it means I have no canteen facilities for my breaks. I'm expected to stand up or sit down on the side of the road and boil the kettle with the bottled gas I was given and make my cup of tea and eat my lunch. No shelter at all. No toilet facilities either.

Surely that can't be right.

terryduff12 · 08-02-2016 02:35AM

Not being smart or anything but send email of to joe duffy include as much information as ya can ask your supervisor are you not suppose to have a facility for break and mention what response you get good time to bring it up with election happening some pictures would highlight what your dealing with.

jmcgill16 · 08-02-2016 02:35PM

Once you've taken photos I'd say you should also consider sending them to broadsheet.ie and the more traditional media (Indo, Herald etc) too - in election season it might get quite a bit of coverage. It is fairly outrageous sounding.

If the media picks up on it I'd say your situation will be fixed fairly quickly.

Tommy Kelly · 08-02-2016 03:34PM

I don't want to go down the media route or any of that malarkey. I just want to know what the situation is regarding me or indeed any other person in similar circumstances actually having to work in them conditions full stop.

I've said it to my supervisor that I thought it wasn't on but he just hopped into the work van and drove off.

My job involves walking in front of a tractor that has a hedge cutter on the back cutting the ditches/hedges on the side of the road. This is always in a fairly rural isolated area.

I have to put out signs, check the ditches/hedges for rocks, wire or any other debris that might cause damage to either the hedge cutter, something or somebody. i.e hedge cutter hits something and that something flies etc...

Break is usually just stopping at where ever it is we are at 10am or 1pm. Guy driving the tractor sits in the cab (only space for one) I end up sitting on the side of the road somewhere or if it's lashing down rain like it is quite a lot these last few months, just leaning up against the wheel of the tractor.

Supervisor gave us a cheapish enough camper thing that can boil a kettle with small cans of gas that can be bought in a petrol station etc. So that has to be boiled on the side of the road and then I eat my lunch, like I said either standing up or sitting down in the elements.

No toilet facilities, no shelter, damn all really.

The supervisor has a really bad attitude as well. One of these ''fck em didn't I give him water proofs and a kettle and a tin of gas, what more does he want'' type of lads.

I've been doing this for over half a year now but I've just about had enough of it now, especially given the weather we've been having these last few months. I want to work and have no problem working, I'll be there on time and will finish on time even stay on late if I'm required and indeed in I did during the floods etc but there is only so much one can take too.

terryduff12 · 08-02-2016 03:41PM

You report it you will probably get hassled saying your refusing to work. Ring citizens information they should be able to help

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