social welfare for dogs

Beaver1

My mates sister told me to day that she was getting a social welfare payment of €38 per moth to feed her dog,

this isnt true, is it.

Hawkeye1

I hope its not, 38 a month is nothing, it should be 38 a week with the price of dog food these days

Wise Old Elf

I saw a foreign woman trying to get on a bus last week. She had her dog and its kennel with her, but she was struggling to get it on the bus. I offered to help her but she just left it at the bus stop and said the social would buy her a new one.
True story

HemlockOption

Beaver1 wrote: »

My mates sister told me to day that she was getting a social welfare payment of €38 per moth to feed her dog,

this isnt true, is it.

I hope its true. Dogs deserve welfare cause they give so much back to humans. Guide dogs , guard dogs, drug detectors, companions......

jbkenn

Disco Stuart wrote: »

I saw a foreign woman trying to get on a bus last week. She had her dog and its kennel with her, but she was struggling to get it on the bus. I offered to help her but she just left it at the bus stop and said the social would buy her a new one.
True story

Are you sure it was'nt a buggy?, and a tacsai instead of a bus?

seanie_c

Beaver1 wrote: »

My mates sister told me to day that she was getting a social welfare payment of €38 per moth to feed her dog,

this isnt true, is it.

I've seen DFA (Dog Food Allowance) application forms in some pet stores.

The following forms of income are exempt from income tax, subject to certain conditions:

• Income from horse breeding and racing greyhounds raised in Ireland.
• Income from copyright on works defined as having an artistic or cultural value.
• Shares distributed to an employee by his/her employee according to an approved plan, subject to a limit.
• Income from forestry works.
• Rental of room/s in main residence, subject to annual ceiling.
• Dividend received by a resident Irish company from another Irish company.
• For individuals, gain from the sale of principal residence.
• For individuals ,an annual EUR 1,270 tax exemption from capital gain.
• Certain leasing income of farm land.

RoscommonTom

HemlockOption wrote: »

I hope its true. Dogs deserve welfare cause they give so much back to humans. Guide dogs , guard dogs, drug detectors, companions......

We should give them the vote too while were at it

Wise Old Elf

jbkenn wrote: »

Are you sure it was'nt a buggy?, and a tacsai instead of a bus?

It may have been :-)

To be a bit less facetious, i've never heard of this before, and I have an idea that the 38 euro matches the additional payment per week per dependant child or something. Not sure though.

HemlockOption

RoscommonTom wrote: »

We should give them the vote too while were at it

We'd probably end up with better govt

fryup

this can't be true surely???

you'll have every cute whoor going chancing their arm to get it

Clareman

Feel free to ask this question in the State Benefits forum, nothing to do with Limerick so I'm locking this.