9 week Job Seekers Benefit delay

kelbal

HI,
I believe there can be delays on receiving Job Seekers Benefit - depending on things such as redundancy payment, circumstances of the persons job ending. If I'm stopped from getting it for 5 weeks lets say, do I still get a full 52 weeks, or does the 5 weeks come off the 52, leaving me with 47 weeks payment?

thanks

Phelim

Annasopra

kelbal wrote: »

HI,
I believe there can be delays on receiving Job Seekers Benefit - depending on things such as redundancy payment, circumstances of the persons job ending. If I'm stopped from getting it for 5 weeks lets say, do I still get a full 52 weeks, or does the 5 weeks come off the 52, leaving me with 47 weeks payment?

thanks

Phelim

If you resign from a job - you don't get anything for 9 weeks so you get paid after 9 weeks and you would only get 43 weeks in a year

If you apply and they are assessing you and there is say a backlog of say five weeks - you will get the payment backdated so at week 6 you would receive 6 weeks worth of JSB - so you get a full 52 weeks if you cannot wait 5 or 6 weeks you can apply to the community welfare officer and ask them to pay it until your JSB is approved

If you are under 55 and get a redundancy payment of more than €50,000 you will be disqualified from claiming Jobseeker's Benefit for a certain amount of time depending on the amount