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apply for Jobseeker's Benefit a few days before becoming unemployed?

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  • 28-02-2020 4:21pm
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    pjuegos
    Registered Users Posts: 117 ✭✭


    Can you apply for Jobseeker's Benefit a few days before becoming unemployed?

    Just to speed up the process

    Thanks


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    [Deleted User]
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    pjuegos wrote: »
    Can you apply for Jobseeker's Benefit a few days before becoming unemployed?

    Just to speed up the process

    Thanks

    No.


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    Plumbthedepths
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    No.You could however apply for another job straight away.


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    pjuegos
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    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    No.You could however apply for another job straight away.

    Of course!


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    splinter65
    Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    pjuegos wrote: »
    Can you apply for Jobseeker's Benefit a few days before becoming unemployed?

    Just to speed up the process

    Thanks

    No.


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    dartboardio
    Registered Users Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dartboardio


    Guys are ye sure about this?

    I walked out of my job on the 14.02.2020 and applied for JB the same day.

    I didn't cease my employment or even inform my employer until a week later, and already had the JB approved by then..

    Weird how no system was checked to ensure I had actually left the employment.

    So yes technically I applied a few days before becoming unemployed on paper.


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    splinter65
    Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    dartboardio wrote: »
    Guys are ye sure about this?

    I walked out of my job on the 14.02.2020 and applied for JB the same day.

    I didn't cease my employment or even inform my employer until a week later, and already had the JB approved by then..

    Weird how no system was checked to ensure I had actually left the employment.

    So yes technically I applied a few days before becoming unemployed on paper.

    You went in and told them that you had left work, because you had left work.
    That’s a totally different situation to walking in to SW and telling them that you will be finishing work next Friday. There’s no comparison .


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    Tordelback
    Registered Users Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Tordelback


    splinter65 wrote: »
    You went in and told them that you had left work, because you had left work.

    There's also one big difference between just quitting a job and being let go. Quoting from Citizenship Information website:

    "If you leave work voluntarily ... you cannot get a jobseeker's payment for 9 weeks."

    If dartboardio's employer didn't even know that he'd quit, he's at risk of hsving defrauded Welfare - unless he fancies paying all that back with interest, I wouldn't be broadcasting it, never mind presenting it as advice.


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    dartboardio
    Registered Users Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dartboardio


    Tordelback wrote: »
    There's also one big difference between just quitting a job and being let go. Quoting from Citizenship Information website:

    "If you leave work voluntarily ... you cannot get a jobseeker's payment for 9 weeks."

    If dartboardio's employer didn't even know that he'd quit, he's at risk of hsving defrauded Welfare - unless he fancies paying all that back with interest, I wouldn't be broadcasting it, never mind presenting it as advice.

    Lol.

    They don't even stick to their own rules. There was not even one week disqualification for payment.


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