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PUP payment for part time worker / full time student

  • 28-11-2020 2:56pm
    #1
    Daddy Ireland
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭


    My daughter is in third level and has a part time weekend restaurant job. She has received the PUP for the past six weeks. She is concerned returning to work as she has a few years back been very unwell with an autoimmune illness that required her miss most of her school year. She is afraid that if she got covid as it attacks an autoimmune disorder that her body is weakened already that the illness will reoccur.
    Has she any grounds not to return to work until the pandemic is over and qualify for the PUP until end of March ? She could produce a letter from her doctor in support. Or is it a case that she would just have to give up work and do without any financial support ? Thanks.


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  • #2
    JustAThought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Daddy Ireland wrote: »
    My daughter is in third level and has a part time weekend restaurant job. She has received the PUP for the past six weeks. She is concerned returning to work as she has a few years back been very unwell with an autoimmune illness that required her miss most of her school year. She is afraid that if she got covid as it attacks an autoimmune disorder that her body is weakened already that the illness will reoccur.
    Has she any grounds not to return to work until the pandemic is over and qualify for the PUP until end of March ? She could produce a letter from her doctor in support. Or is it a case that she would just have to give up work and do without any financial support ? Thanks.

    Apart from the ethics of this, will having be registered as unable to sick due to a doctors letter to this effect on her permanent medical record have an impact on her future track record should a ‘real’ employer OR car insurance firm ask for access to her file - as has happened to me on more than one occasion to progress in a job interview.? Even civil service roles now have this as a standard in more senior roles and refusal to
    give access (in addition to attending their doctor for a medical) automatically results in your
    applicTion not being progressed further.

    Regardless of ‘GDPR’ and ‘Rights’.

    I’d be playing the long game in this and focusing on her future roles.

    I’d also be wondering why someone with an autoimmune disease in a global
    pandemic would be working front line part-time when its a disease that as yet has no cure. What couple of quid pocket money is worth that?


  • #3
    Daddy Ireland
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭Daddy Ireland


    Thanks. Food for thought.


  • #4
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,089 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Students don't get the regular dole if they lose their part-time work, don't see why they should get the PUP.

    They're one of many loopholes that exist because the whole scheme had to be rushed in to place, and will be cleaned up over time. AFAIK, DEASP are already starting to treat PUP as a means tested allowance.


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