Info about someone starting a 3 day week.

Graceland

Someone I know will be going on a 3 day week. They are going to be signing on the dole for the other days. But they have been told that instead of being able to claim 3 dole days, they will now only be able to claim 2. This is suppose to be a new thing out because of the cutbacks, but it will only affect new people starting a 3 day week. They won't get paid for the Saturday.
I said I would ask on their behalf on this board, so hopefully someone will have heard about this. I couldn't find anything on the social welfare site.

mrsbouquet

Graceland wrote: »

Someone I know will be going on a 3 day week. They are going to be signing on the dole for the other days. But they have been told that instead of being able to claim 3 dole days, they will now only be able to claim 2. This is suppose to be a new thing out because of the cutbacks, but it will only affect new people starting a 3 day week. They won't get paid for the Saturday.
I said I would ask on their behalf on this board, so hopefully someone will have heard about this. I couldn't find anything on the social welfare site.[/QUO
This is not a new thing. If a person has been working full time for a while and their employer reduces their days they can sign on for the days they dont work this is called systematic short time work. If they work for 3 days they get paid for two or if they work two days they get paid for 3. However their daily rate is higher for example the daily rate for a single person on full rate benefit is 196 this is divided by six to give a daily rate of 32.66 so if they work three days they receive 98.00 if they are on short time their daily rate is 196 divided by 5 = 39.20 per day which would be 78.40. Also jobseekers benefit is taxable but short time payment is not taxable. Also their benefit will last longer

Graceland

Thanks for explaining it to me. I didn't release this wasn't a new thing. I appreciate you explaining it in detail.