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Welfare Post Office

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  • 21-03-2013 12:03pm
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    atkin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 342 ✭✭


    I was looking at the Welfare site and cash payments are to be phased out.
    I currently get my JSA in cash using the old non photo ID SWS card.How different is the payment method using post drafts. Do you just go and show them the card at the post office. They say the payment goes out of date after 12 days and is returned.Then you must explain your reason for not collecting.
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    [Deleted User]
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    Moved from After Hours.
    State Benefits charter now applies


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    phoenix999
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    atkin wrote: »
    I was looking at the Welfare site and cash payments are to be phased out.
    I currently get my JSA in cash using the old non photo ID SWS card.How different is the payment method using post drafts. Do you just go and show them the card at the post office. They say the payment goes out of date after 12 days and is returned.Then you must explain your reason for not collecting.

    Where on the website did you see that?


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    atkin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 342 ✭✭atkin


    phoenix999 wrote: »
    Where on the website did you see that?

    http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Payment-related-issues.aspx for payment details.


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    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    atkin wrote: »
    http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Payment-related-issues.aspx for payment details.

    I cannot see anything on that specific page that says cash payments are being phased out?


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    Balagan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Balagan


    atkin wrote: »
    http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Payment-related-issues.aspx for payment details.

    The link you gave (above) refers to payments in cash at Social Welfare Offices being phased out.

    Cash

    Cash payments to unemployed persons have now been transferred from all Social Welfare Local Offices to Post Offices. A further group of unemployed customers receives their payments in cash at Social Welfare Branch Offices but this is being phased out.


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    atkin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 342 ✭✭atkin


    This is the statement .Check at the bottom for freephone and more info.can you read?

    Electronic Information Transfer (EIT)

    This payment method gives persons (Lone Parents, One-Parent Family, Deserted Wife's Benefit, Disability Allowance recipients and the unemployed) the option of being paid weekly by means of Social Services (SWS) card at a Post Office. In the case of automated (computerised) Post Offices, payments are made by use of SWS cards. Where the Post Office is a non-automated office, payments are made by Post Draft. The SWS card is used for identification purposes at these offices.

    Where a person opts for payment by EIT ( SWS card), s/he must attend the Post Office to collect the payment personally. An agent may not be appointed to collect the payment, except in exceptional circumstances such as serious illness. Supporting medical evidence would be required.

    Payments by EIT are held at the Post Office for 12 days from the due date. After this time, the payments go out-of-date and are returned to the Department. Where a payment is not collected on time and has been returned to the Department, the person must explain to the Department the reasons for non-collection of payment. A replacement payment is made by cheque to the person's home address where due to illness or some other valid reason (e.g. a death in the family) s/he could not attend the Post Office. Supporting medical or other evidence would generally be requested by the Department.

    An added feature of this payment method is that a person can also avail of a Household Budgeting facility. Household budgeting is a facility provided by An Post whereby persons being paid by EIT can make arrangements with An Post to pay a regular amount towards various household bills by direct deduction from their weekly payment.

    Further information regarding Household Budgeting can be had from:

    Household Budget- One-Parent-Family Payment,
    An Post,
    College House, Townsend Street,
    FREEPOST
    Dublin 2

    FREEPHONE Customer Helpline at 1-800-707172.

    Cheques


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    Cushie Butterfield
    Registered Users Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭Cushie Butterfield


    atkin wrote: »
    This is the statement .Check at the bottom for freephone and more info.can you read?
    Payments by EIT are held at the Post Office for 12 days from the due date. After this time, the payments go out-of-date and are returned to the Department. Where a payment is not collected on time and has been returned to the Department, the person must explain to the Department the reasons for non-collection of payment. A replacement payment is made by cheque to the person's home address


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    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    atkin wrote: »
    This is the statement .Check at the bottom for freephone and more info.can you read?

    Electronic Information Transfer (EIT)

    This payment method gives persons (Lone Parents, One-Parent Family, Deserted Wife's Benefit, Disability Allowance recipients and the unemployed) the option of being paid weekly by means of Social Services (SWS) card at a Post Office. In the case of automated (computerised) Post Offices, payments are made by use of SWS cards. Where the Post Office is a non-automated office, payments are made by Post Draft. The SWS card is used for identification purposes at these offices.

    Where a person opts for payment by EIT ( SWS card), s/he must attend the Post Office to collect the payment personally. An agent may not be appointed to collect the payment, except in exceptional circumstances such as serious illness. Supporting medical evidence would be required.

    Payments by EIT are held at the Post Office for 12 days from the due date. After this time, the payments go out-of-date and are returned to the Department. Where a payment is not collected on time and has been returned to the Department, the person must explain to the Department the reasons for non-collection of payment. A replacement payment is made by cheque to the person's home address where due to illness or some other valid reason (e.g. a death in the family) s/he could not attend the Post Office. Supporting medical or other evidence would generally be requested by the Department.

    An added feature of this payment method is that a person can also avail of a Household Budgeting facility. Household budgeting is a facility provided by An Post whereby persons being paid by EIT can make arrangements with An Post to pay a regular amount towards various household bills by direct deduction from their weekly payment.

    Further information regarding Household Budgeting can be had from:

    Household Budget- One-Parent-Family Payment,
    An Post,
    College House, Townsend Street,
    FREEPOST
    Dublin 2

    FREEPHONE Customer Helpline at 1-800-707172.

    Cheques

    I don't think there are many of these post offices in the country... probably very rural areas.


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