Job Seekers Benefit

Quitelife

If you have worked for many years and are made redundant you get Job Seekers Benefit for 9 months ....but if you get a job after that 9 months how long do you have to work to qualify for job seekers benefit again?

IE if youve exhausted your present job seekers benefit and because your wife has a job you dont qualify for job seekers allowance - you eventually got a job for a year would you be entitled to job seelers benefit again for a period ?

victor8600

The rules here

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social-welfare/social-welfare-payments/unemployed-people/rules-for-getting-a-jobseekers-payment/

do not indicate any time limit (except for the total number of PRSI contributions). I would imagine that any time that you would have worked in-between applications is fine, BUT you have to meet the requirements -- i.e. you cannot get a job and then leave on your own volition, that will probably be questionable.

"If a Deciding Officer thinks that you have placed unreasonable restrictions [on getting a job], you will be interviewed and given the opportunity to respond."

hawthorne

If you have used up your entitlement to Jobseeker's Benefit, you may requalify for JB by working and paying the appropriate PRSI contributions for at least 13 weeks. You can start building up these 13 contributions after the 156th day on Jobseeker's Benefit.

victor8600

Thanks! Is your answer based on this (from https://www.inou.ie/information/jobseekers-benefit/#mcetoc_1dupiutm32):

Duration of Payment

Jobseeker's Benefit is normally paid for a maximum of 9 months, after which time you may apply for the means tested Jobseeker's Allowance payment. If you have less than 260 PRSI contributions paid since first entering employment Jobseeker's Benefit will only be paid for 6 months instead of the full 9 months.

PRSI Contributions

To qualify for JB your PRSI record must include:

At least 104 paid contributions (class A, H or P PRSI) since you first started work, and

• Have 39 paid or credited contributions in the relevant tax year (of which at least 13 must be paid)

or

• Have 26 paid contributions in the relevant tax year and 26 paid contributions in the year immediately preceding it.

*If you do not have 13 paid contributions in the relevant tax year the following years can be used to meet the condition: The two tax years before the relevant tax year; the last complete tax year; the current tax year.

hawthorne

Indeed- I quoted from that source.

Quitelife

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120628150#Comment_120628150

If im reading this right after using up your 9 months JB and not qualifying for JA , one could work for lets say 4/5 months in a seasonal job which would be a likely scenario and then requalify for a further 6 months JB

hawthorne

Spot on!