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Do people on the dole get their tv licence paid?

  • 09-02-2012 11:21pm
    #1
    corglass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭


    By the state, for free?
    Anyone know?


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  • #2
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    corglass wrote: »
    Anyone know?

    No they don't


  • #3
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    No.


  • #4
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    No they don't, but anyone can buy stamps in the post office (I think they're 4 euro per stamp) and when the book is full can swap it for a tv licence, or pay by direct debit.


  • #5
    corglass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭corglass


    Thanks guys


  • #6
    Howjoe1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,666 ✭✭✭Howjoe1


    Yes and they get their toe nails cut for free.


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  • #7
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Short and sweet.


  • #8
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Only the Polish, that and free internet, it's callled the Pole tax


  • #9
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    People on the dole get free money - FACT!!


  • #10
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,429 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Some millionaires qualify for a free licence if they are over 70.


  • #11
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Yes they do. And they get free cars and houses and children.

    But only if they're foreigners.


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  • #12
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    No, they pay it by osmosis or interpretative dance like everyone else.


  • #13
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Yes they do. And they get free cars and houses and children.

    But only if they're foreigners.

    Not all time. Sometimes the foreigners get a bus pass and a pram for their kids. If they can't get the pram on the bus, they leave it at the stop and get a new one from the welfare.


  • #14
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Not all time. Sometimes the foreigners get a bus pass and a pram for their kids. If they can't get the pram on the bus, they leave it at the stop and get a new one from the welfare.

    Actually who is entitled to a bus pass apart from the elderly and disabled? Because I've seen people that look young and fit with them.


  • #15
    four18
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 460 ✭✭four18


    YES they do
    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/extra_social_welfare_benefits/household_benefits_package.html
    And credit on their moblle ( If on disability which is what most on methadone are on. Addiction is a disability appearently !


  • #16
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    oppenheimer1 wrote: »
    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Not all time. Sometimes the foreigners get a bus pass and a pram for their kids. If they can't get the pram on the bus, they leave it at the stop and get a new one from the welfare.

    Actually who is entitled to a bus pass apart from the elderly and disabled? Because I've seen people that look young and fit with them.

    Drug addicts are. Probably have to be in a treatment program but loads of fake passes going around


  • #17
    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    corglass wrote: »
    By the state, for free?
    Anyone know?

    No OP you mis-understood, they don't get the tv licence for free, they get the 40 inch hd tv for free....


  • #18
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    that buggy story that goes around isn't entirely untrue, the 'hardship fund' that paid for communions gave out money for buggies too.


  • #19
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Question answered.

    For more info see welfare.ie or the state benefits forum.


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