ICT Programme & Dole

busyliving

Hey all

I'm just wondering, if I'm unemployed and get offered a place in one of the ICT programmes such as this one here

Would I be still able to claim my dole?

paperclip2

This course is offered is part of the ICT Skills Programme to increase the number of people with programming skills.

Generally yes you can retain your payment if you fulfill the entry criteria for this course and have been in receipt of a Jobseeker payment for at least 3 out of the past six months.

Income Supports...

If you are unemployed with an entitlement to a Jobseekers allowance or Jobseekers benefit payment from the Department of Social Protection you may retain such payments, if you have been on the Live Register for at least 3 months in the 6 months prior to the commencement of the programme. If you are in receipt of a Jobseekers payment you must contact your local social welfare office to make an application to retain your payment under an atypical pilot basis of the Part Time Education Option (PTEO). Under the PTEO you may only retain such payments for the duration of time that an underlying entitlement to a payment exists.

Full info on this scheme and all courses available is available here: http://www.bluebrick.ie/ICTSkills/

barryjmay

All ICT Skills courses are open to people who are employed or unemployed, it doesn't really matter what your circumstances are. I am currently employed but am expecting to be made redundant in the next few months and have been accepted onto one of the courses (part time hours). It is not clear on the website whether you are entitled to claim jobseeker's benefit for my circumstances i.e. employed when starting the course but then become unemployed during it. My local social welfare office just keeps trotting out the 3 month rule and saying that I won't be entitled to anything. Any help or advice upon this would be most welcome.

polaris

paperclip2 wrote: »

This course is offered is part of the ICT Skills Programme to increase the number of people with programming skills.

Generally yes you can retain your payment if you fulfill the entry criteria for this course and have been in receipt of a Jobseeker payment for at least 3 out of the past six months.


Full info on this scheme and all courses available is available here: http://www.bluebrick.ie/ICTSkills/

Hi Guys,

I take it that this is old information, and it now 9 months?

paperclip2

At the time Bluebrick administered the application for the Springboard programmes. It has its own website now:
http://www.springboardcourses.ie/

polaris

paperclip2 wrote: »

At the time Bluebrick administered the application for the Springboard programmes. It has its own website now:
http://www.springboardcourses.ie/

thanks, i after reviewing the springboard website and it for part-time courses, the course am hoping to do is full-time.I think am after finding conflicting information about the amount of time you have to be unemployed for. On the ictskills website (https://www.ictskills.ie/Help_FAQ.aspx) it states that you have to be unemployed for 9months, but on the higher education authority website (http://www.hea.ie/ictskills2011) it states 3 months?

donegal11

polaris wrote: »

thanks, i after reviewing the springboard website and it for part-time courses, the course am hoping to do is full-time.I think am after finding conflicting information about the amount of time you have to be unemployed for. On the ictskills website (https://www.ictskills.ie/Help_FAQ.aspx) it states that you have to be unemployed for 9months, but on the higher education authority website (http://www.hea.ie/ictskills2011) it states 3 months?

9 months, 3 months was last year.