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JSA question

  • 19-05-2010 8:33pm
    #1
    hucklebuck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,173 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys,

    My fiancee is just about to finish her teaching degree in the next two weeks and obviously won't be working until September at the earliest. I have been trying to support us for the last 3 years but we are really struggling now.

    Can she claim jobseekers allowance in the intervening period and is this reduced as we are engaged or are we treated as single people because I understand in Irish law there is no such thing as common law spouse. On a side note I have being paying the mortgage and all the bills since she moved in?

    Thanks.:)


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  • #2
    OmeGar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭OmeGar


    If she has finished her current course, and will not be returning to that course in September, she should be able to apply for Jobseekers Allowance. However because you are a co-habiting couple, your earnings will be assed as means against her.


  • #3
    hucklebuck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,173 ✭✭✭hucklebuck


    Hi Omegar,

    Thanks a million for that. I thought that might be the case. She is finishing her finals next Friday so we can apply then.

    Ta.


  • #4
    OmeGar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭OmeGar


    She should get a letter from her Educational Institute confirming that she has finsihed the course, and the date of her last exam. This is one of the documents they will request (along with Proof of ID, and proof of Address, and bank accounts and proof of your earnings)

    The following is the rules for Means assessments if you want to have a look

    http://www.welfare.ie/EN/OperationalGuidelines/pages/JA_ass_sppart_ern.aspx

    ignore stuff in relation to the savers clause, as your partner will be assessed under the new method


  • #5
    H8GHOTI
    Registered Users Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭H8GHOTI


    Can she apply for Jobseekers Benefit instead of JA? What reason would there be for her not to being entitled to JB?


  • #6
    OmeGar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭OmeGar


    I have assumed that since the OP was supporting her that she was not working. Though if my assumption is wrong, she may qualify for JSB. The OP though should still provide information in case a means assessment is needed.


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  • #7
    H8GHOTI
    Registered Users Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭H8GHOTI


    OmeGar wrote: »
    I have assumed that since the OP was supporting her that she was not working. Though if my assumption is wrong, she may qualify for JSB. The OP though should still provide information in case a means assessment is needed.

    I forgot that you have to work up credits to be entitled to JSB. :o


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