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JSA Approval

  • 03-06-2020 12:42pm
    #1
    Kirby2k07
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭


    I’ve been approved for JSA and received payments the last few weeks on and off. At first I applied online then realizing it would take ages I sent them a paper application. It got approved and everything’s grand.

    I just a letter in the post tho, only 1 page of “Jobseekers Claim part B“ from my local Intreo centre asking me to fill out the form and free post it back to them. It’s the same part of the form I already filled out to apply in the first place which was approved. Any have any idea as to why theyre asking me to fill out the same info that they already have for an app that’s already approved?

    The letter is also signed off by a different deciding officer...


Comments

  • #2
    dartboardio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dartboardio


    Can you clarify what exactly it says/asks for on 'Part B' ?

    If your application is already approved, then it's probably some sort of crossover and I'd ignore it.

    ring to check maybe.


  • #3
    Kirby2k07
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭Kirby2k07


    Yeah they weren't answering calls earlier and the form doesn't have a specific email for the person who signed the letter.

    Its the first part of the form I guess, name, nationality, education level and last employment timeframe/gross income. All info they already have.

    I thought maybe its a response to my online application a month a half ago, but I presume if that was the case they would have been communicated to me for that through mywelfare.ie? And my online application would have been swapped to "pending"? I still have only one notification online from april 23 when I applied originally, which just reads "application submitted".


  • #4
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    dartboardio wrote: »
    Can you clarify what exactly it says/asks for on 'Part B' ?

    If your application is already approved, then it's probably some sort of crossover and I'd ignore it.

    ring to check maybe.

    “Ignore it”? This is why people get their payments cancelled and then they spiral into a tit for tat row with their local office and end up with no money for weeks. If the customers were allowed to decide which forms they did and didn’t have to complete it wouldn’t be very fair.
    It’s a 1 page form. How about you just fill it in OP and return it to them like they’ve asked you to in order to ensure that you continue in your payment for as long as you need it.


  • #5
    lughildanach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭lughildanach


    There could be many reasons why the form has been requested. The most likely I would say is that they have lost the original one.

    You could start photocopying everything that you send to the Department, sending everything by registered mail, chasing this up with phone calls, personal visits to the local office, insist on speaking to a manager, appeal to the Appeals Office if/when they cut your payment (while you have no money for 6 months in the interim period), complain to the Ombudsman, even take High Court proceedings.

    Or, you could just complete the form and send it back.

    Either path is valid. Just depends on whether you have something more constructive or valuable to do with your time. I usually take the path of least resistance, but if we all do that, nothing will change.


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