Disability allowence Back pay

Icecold

Hi i was accepted for disability allowence and will be payed 188 euros a week starting on the 20th of this month how does the backpay work i sent my application in on the 2/10/12 how much sould i get and when sould i get it
If it matters i am just 16 years old
(sorry for the bad english)

Thanks in advance

Icecold

I belive the corect term for back pay is arrears

mrsbyrne

It could be quite a while until you get your arrears, but dont worry you will get it.

pl4ichjgy17zwd

In my experience, you'll get a cheque some time in the next few months (mine took three) and it should say on your approval letter when you're approved from. If it's from (it usually is) the date of application or thereabouts, you're looking at around ~€3500.

andym1

Rex Bald Turbine wrote: »

In my experience, you'll get a cheque some time in the next few months (mine took three) and it should say on your approval letter when you're approved from. If it's from (it usually is) the date of application or thereabouts, you're looking at around ~€3500.

About 14 weeks @ 188 is 2632. where are you getting 3500 from ?

Sue Ellen

I make it 19 weeks to 12th Feb which is €3,572. You would get paid on the 20th Feb so it is 19 weeks to the week before 20th.

This assumes you weren't paid by CWO or as a dependant on any other claim.

Icecold

Thanks for responceing but sould i be getting paid from back when i got the condition and have proof of it? thanks very much for the help

Sue Ellen

It will only be back dated to when you made the claim. If you requested for it to be backdated you would have to have given a reason why you didn't apply immediately.

LK22

my son was awarded D.A this week also, first payment 27th Feb, his arrears are being backdated to when he turned 16, not when he made the claim, also the letter stated he would receive arrears in due course providing that he wasn't in receipt of any other sw
payments, which he wasn't.

Icecold

Hi LK22 why are your sons arrears backdated that far could mine be?

Also will i have to backpay on rent my dad keep saying no but he is the kinda guy who would just say that and pay himself which i would not like him to do

LK22

Hi, icecold, my sons arrears are being backdated that far because he made the claim well in advance of his 16th birthday as advised, as these claims can take a long time to process, nearly a year in his case. regarding back paying rent to your dad, that I don't know, if you are only 16, why are you paying rent ? are you not a dependent of your dad untill your 18th birthday !