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    #572
    Just Saying
    Registered Users Posts: 305 ✭✭Just Saying


    jjmcclure wrote: »
    Does this situation qualify.


    Self employed in my own business.
    Haven't paid my self in over a year, living off savings.
    Business is a startup so only on-boarding clients when the virus hit
    Clients are in "lockdown" so no engagement at the moment and no chance to generate revenue.


    Am I eligible for the payment. App;lied on 20th via post. No payment or communication since.

    Thx

    Are you registered as self employed with Revenue?Do you make Income Tax and/or VAT returns? If they have a pre Covid-19 record of you being self employed you are eligible.


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    #573
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    olly111 wrote: »
    Same boat here. What option did you go for on welfare.ie as I'm only seeing options to change bank details for other payments and not the covid payment?
    I used the job seeker option as you are right no Covid19 option


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    #574
    1882
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭1882


    Has anyone been paid into their Revolut or N26 by any chance ?

    I know they're saying Irish bank only now but they weren't saying that at the start.


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    #575
    Frank12
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭Frank12


    People have being mentioning that they collected there’s from their local post office , there’s no option on the form to say collect it from the post office .I applied last week, meet all criteria etc so thinking it may be at my post office . How would they know to make the payment to your local post office ?


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    #576
    ToddDameron
    Closed Accounts Posts: 381 ✭✭ToddDameron


    Frank12 wrote: »
    People have being mentioning that they collected there’s from their local post office , there’s no option on the form to say collect it from the post office .I applied last week, meet all criteria etc so thinking it may be at my post office . How would they know to make the payment to your local post office ?

    They can tell from your address, the standard method for collecting payment is at the post office. You should have received an email if it is at the post office.

    I put in my bank details, triple checked them, and still it went to the post office due to an error.


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    #577
    Frank12
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭Frank12


    ToddDameron wrote: »
    They can tell from your address, the standard method for collecting payment is at the post office. You should have received an email if it is at the post office.

    I put in my bank details, triple checked them, and still it went to the post office due to an error.

    Cheers,might call into my local post office and check. Don’t mind waiting for the payment it’s just if I had so communication it would be great. I understand they are up the walls.


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    #578
    wazzer1
    Registered Users Posts: 336 ✭✭wazzer1


    Hi folks

    My company have agreed to pay 70% of our wages when we are temporarily laid off. We are paid monthly so not due till end of Apr. Any idea how to calculate how much I will be paid. Is there paye, usc etc involved?

    Thanks


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    #579
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 38,321 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Applied last Friday 27th March for the emergency payment and didn't hear anything back yet . Last work payment was the 17th March.

    Is this normal ??


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    #580
    snowgal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭snowgal


    wazzer1 wrote: »
    Hi folks

    My company have agreed to pay 70% of our wages when we are temporarily laid off. We are paid monthly so not due till end of Apr. Any idea how to calculate how much I will be paid. Is there paye, usc etc involved?

    Thanks

    Hi it depends on your paye details etc. Generally yes the tax prsi etc will be deducted as normal.


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    #581
    easypazz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    Applied last Friday 27th March for the emergency payment and didn't hear anything back yet . Last work payment was the 17th March.

    Is this normal ??

    Yes, your payment is only processing now.


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    #582
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    ToddDameron wrote: »
    I was told in the post office that my payment is not the emergency payment (despite having filled out the pandemic form) and that's why I have to attend the post office. She said loads of people have had this done my mistake. She may have been talking out of her arse though.

    Have a look at the receipt they gave you in the post office when you collected your money. If it says "exceptional needs payment" on it then she is indeed talking out of her arse.


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    #583
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Frank12 wrote: »
    People have being mentioning that they collected there’s from their local post office , there’s no option on the form to say collect it from the post office .I applied last week, meet all criteria etc so thinking it may be at my post office . How would they know to make the payment to your local post office ?

    You will get an email to tell you to collect from post office if it is there otherwise i think you'll have to wait until it is in the bank.


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    #584
    FellasFellas
    Registered Users Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭FellasFellas


    If you work a second job, no matter what it pays, does that work have to be ceased to qualify?

    I'm on a tiny salary till May from a school thats closed now.

    What can I do?

    People who might work 4 hours a week are now getting €350 and I'm declined from getting the payment as I'm getting €125 a week from this job. Just not fair.

    To clarify, my main source of income was a shop that closed down where I work in the mornings.


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    #585
    jjmcclure
    Registered Users Posts: 558 ✭✭✭jjmcclure


    Just Saying wrote: »
    Are you registered as self employed with Revenue?Do you make Income Tax and/or VAT returns? If they have a pre Covid-19 record of you being self employed you are eligible.


    Yep. Have been completing VAT returns and tax returns. Receive a tax refund from 2019 in Feb 2020.


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    #586
    Plasandrunt
    Registered Users Posts: 858 ✭✭✭Plasandrunt


    Hey guys doing this for my friend, completed the Covid form last tonight but today she got a message to complete the Jobseekers form? Does this make sense. Don't want to fill it out and complicate things


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    #587
    GreenGrass2019
    Registered Users Posts: 136 ✭✭GreenGrass2019


    Hoboo wrote: »
    Just read someone on a back to work enterprise allowance and who is self employed will continue to receive the btwea, but if their business has been hit, that's it. I'd have thought they'd increase it by 150 to bring people to the 350 mark, in line with all all other self employed.

    How can somene earning an allowance and small wage starting a business suddenly be expected to live on 200 a week and keep the business afloat until it can reopen. They can't. So the business they've built closes, and they're back on the scratch.

    Sounds like they're making it up as they go along, identify issues as they arise and reassess. Hopefully they'll realise keeping as many businesses in a tradeable position is better than shutting them down for 150 quid.

    BTWEA recipients receive the €350 in addition to weekly allowance. They must apply for the pandemic payment to avail of it.


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    #588
    GreenGrass2019
    Registered Users Posts: 136 ✭✭GreenGrass2019


    Just Saying wrote: »
    Are you registered as self employed with Revenue?Do you make Income Tax and/or VAT returns? If they have a pre Covid-19 record of you being self employed you are eligible.

    Yes you should be eligible.


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    #589
    jimmyrustle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 211 ✭✭jimmyrustle


    Is there any harm in waiting a day or two?

    I would do mine today but got a text at the weekend saying they would communicate further re the income top up or what have you, so I thought I'd wait and see what it says.

    tbh I don't think they will give me anything.

    If I apply today I assume it will backdate to my last day of employment, will it? (left work Friday just gone)


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    #590
    Ghengis
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭Ghengis


    Sorry if this has been asked before, I couldn't see an answer.

    Employer is keeping us on the books, but rang today to say that some of us would be receiving €350 weekly as we are are earning over 38k PA. But if we earned 38k PA, we would receive €410 weekly.

    So, the more you are earning, the less you receive. That can't be right, can it?


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    #591
    1882
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭1882


    Regina Dotherty on Newstalk next, answering payment questions.


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    #592
    easypazz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    1882 wrote: »
    Regina Dotherty on Newstalk next, answering payment questions.

    Don't expect much more information over what has already been announced by the department.

    I stupidly waited for Paschal Donoghue on the LLS and all we got was a waffle cast.


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    #593
    KeithM94
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭KeithM94


    Do they send you an email if you have not been accepted..? Applied on Saturday and was told to wait up to 7 days..then logged in last night and saw I had a 'Finish Application' option which I clicked on and it just made me re-do it.

    Tad confused!


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    #594
    BarryD2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,732 ✭✭✭BarryD2


    FellasFellas wrote: »
    If you work a second job, no matter what it pays, does that work have to be ceased to qualify?

    I'm on a tiny salary till May from a school thats closed now.

    What can I do?

    People who might work 4 hours a week are now getting €350 and I'm declined from getting the payment as I'm getting €125 a week from this job. Just not fair.

    To clarify, my main source of income was a shop that closed down where I work in the mornings.

    It's a problem. Daughter is similar, had 10 hours a week but normally double that. Still on 10 hours but asked to work from home, no additional hours and seemingly not eligible? Doesn't want to quit, nor should she just to qualify as that'd be against the spirit. I think there's quite a few people caught in this sort of 'gig type' economy trap.


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    #595
    Slim Charles
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 621 ✭✭✭Slim Charles


    Several people working here have received 350 today. Still working 3 day weeks.


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    #596
    Just Saying
    Registered Users Posts: 305 ✭✭Just Saying


    jjmcclure wrote: »
    Yep. Have been completing VAT returns and tax returns. Receive a tax refund from 2019 in Feb 2020.

    You are eligible.Making a profit is not a prerequisite to eligibility..You should have got something today but if you don't I would reapply online.


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    #597
    Just Saying
    Registered Users Posts: 305 ✭✭Just Saying


    Ghengis wrote: »
    Sorry if this has been asked before, I couldn't see an answer.

    Employer is keeping us on the books, but rang today to say that some of us would be receiving €350 weekly as we are are earning over 38k PA. But if we earned 38k PA, we would receive €410 weekly.

    So, the more you are earning, the less you receive. That can't be right, can it?

    It is an anomaly.There are 3 bands of support the employer gets..70% of net up to max 410 per week for average weekly net pay under 586..from 586 up to over 900 its capped at 350 and for higher earners they get nothing...It was hoped employers would top up the support but many are not.


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    #598
    Heres Johnny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭Heres Johnny


    Ghengis wrote: »
    Sorry if this has been asked before, I couldn't see an answer.

    Employer is keeping us on the books, but rang today to say that some of us would be receiving €350 weekly as we are are earning over 38k PA. But if we earned 38k PA, we would receive €410 weekly.

    So, the more you are earning, the less you receive. That can't be right, can it?

    Strangely it is, it's a bit of an anomoly in the system. Technically I don't think he's correct though

    The way I read it is its

    70% of net pay where an employees net pay is up to 586 a week and is capped at 410 euro

    Someone on 550 would get 385 for example
    Someone on 400 would get 280

    Also, it's capped at 350 euro a week for employees whose net pay is over 568 a week and under 960.
    Over 960 there is no subsidy available at all

    I can see this anomoly being removed however I'm not sure as to the reasoning behind it.


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    #599
    Ghengis
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭Ghengis


    Heres Johnny wrote: »
    Strangely it is, it's a bit of an anomoly in the system. Technically I don't think he's correct though

    The way I read it is its

    70% of net pay where an employees net pay is up to 586 a week and is capped at 410 euro

    Someone on 550 would get 385 for example
    Someone on 400 would get 280

    Also, it's capped at 350 euro a week for employees whose net pay is over 568 a week and under 960.
    Over 960 there is no subsidy available at all

    I can see this anomoly being removed however I'm not sure as to the reasoning behind it.


    Yeah, that's how I read it on the Revenue website.
    So,

    Someone on 400 would get 280
    Someone on 550 would get 385

    Someone on 568 would get 410

    Someone on 569 would get 350
    Someone on 959 would get 350

    Someone on 960 would get 0

    That's quite a glaring anomaly!


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    #600
    Just Saying
    Registered Users Posts: 305 ✭✭Just Saying


    Ghengis wrote: »
    Yeah, that's how I read it on the Revenue website.
    So,

    Someone on 400 would get 280
    Someone on 550 would get 385

    Someone on 568 would get 410

    Someone on 569 would get 350
    Someone on 959 would get 350

    Someone on 960 would get 0

    That's quite a glaring anomaly!

    Its important to remember that that's what the Employer gets.

    If that is all the employee gets from the employer then the employer is not making any effort to make up any shortfall in net pay.


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    #601
    Ghengis
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭Ghengis


    Just Saying wrote: »
    Its important to remember that that's what the Employer gets.

    If that is all the employee gets from the employer then the employer is not making any effort to make up any shortfall in net pay.

    Oh okay, I didn't realise that. Realistically, our employer won't make up the difference to 70% (never mind anything above that).

    From my working experience, I don't think many of them would pay anything they didn't absolutely have to. I might be better off getting laid off for the same money, and then I'd be able to get my redundancy from the current employer.


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