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Covid Unemplyment Payment for Part-Time Farmers

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  • #32
    alps
    Registered Users Posts: 4,927 ✭✭✭alps


    tractorporn wrote: »
    I'd love to know where you have found that info. I've applied for the payment and to quote the great Fr Ted Crilly the money is resting in my account. My hours have been halved in work and I need every penny and it wont be there if they come looking for it back!

    I made the call and was told no...

    Great to see you got it...but explain...have you got the payment because you are now on reduced hours, but still have work?

    I was told a farmer would get it, if they ceased trading on the farm...maybe you fit that bracket..

    Not going to ask your circumstances, but if you could sort of explain it would be a great help..


  • #33
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,473 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    alps wrote: »
    I made the call and was told no...

    Great to see you got it...but explain...have you got the payment because you are now on reduced hours, but still have work?

    I was told a farmer would get it, if they ceased trading on the farm...maybe you fit that bracket..

    Not going to ask your circumstances, but if you could sort of explain it would be a great help..

    It’s got on your off farm work
    Not farming.

    So if you had off farm work that stopped because of Covid19 then you should be getting the payment. If your applying on the basis that farming is affected by Covid19 then immnkt sure if you will get it.


  • #34
    Bullocks
    Registered Users Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    But I hope they go after the people who shouldn’t be getting it after, and hit them with a nice fine for their trouble... but, I dunno if that’ll happen...

    It might but I hope they concentrate more on the people that make a career out of social welfare rather than the few that will take a few weeks of a payment.
    I know which bunch of people that will cost more in every way in the long run and it isn't the paye worker


  • #35
    tractorporn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭tractorporn


    alps wrote: »
    I made the call and was told no...

    Great to see you got it...but explain...have you got the payment because you are now on reduced hours, but still have work?

    I was told a farmer would get it, if they ceased trading on the farm...maybe you fit that bracket..

    Not going to ask your circumstances, but if you could sort of explain it would be a great help..


    My hours have been cut from 40 hours/week to 20 hours/week as a result of Covid 19 so our HR girl said that we are entitled to apply for the payment. I wasnt sure whether the farm side of things would effect it or not but apparently it's not means tested. Once your PAYE job has been affected because of Covid 19 you get it is what we were told.


  • #36
    20silkcut
    Registered Users Posts: 2,543 ✭✭✭20silkcut


    Bullocks wrote: »
    It might but I hope they concentrate more on the people that make a career out of social welfare rather than the few that will take a few weeks of a payment.
    I know which bunch of people that will cost more in every way in the long run and it isn't the paye worker

    One of the reasons for the €350 payment is to make the whole stay at home thing more feasible.
    If people aren’t getting any money then they are going to go out working or looking for work or worse , further spreading the virus.
    Some people in the south of Italy got nothing due to working in the black economy. The result was mayhem on the streets and looting. Exactly what no government would want at this moment in time. Having people hanging around doing nothing with no money is a recipe for disaster.
    I reckon the payment has more to do with that than anything else it’s only a six week emergency payment. And in fairness if you have a family etc it won’t cover much more than weekly shopping keep bills paid.


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  • #37
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    ",it was feared that the entitlement of workers on lay-off to demand redundancy payments after four weeks without work in certain circumstance could trigger a tsunami of redundancy claims, payment of which could have driven some businesses to collapse.

    In that instance, the state would have picked up the responsibility to pay statutory redundancy of 2 weeks wages per year of service capped at €600 per week."

    https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0324/1126102-covid-19-wage-payments/


  • #38
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    You may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

    https://www.thejournal.ie/pandemic-unemployment-payment-fraud-arrest-5139595-Jul2020/


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