Spring social welfare bonus question

All core social welfare payments getting €200 so they only “discriminate” against working people it seems.

It’s only people who work that don’t get anything

If you are on the dole and got a council house you’d be better off than many middle income families that pay their mortgage themselves

gov.ie - Over €410 million in social protection measures as part of government cost of living supports (www.gov.ie)

Clever strategy. People who just sit on their arse do not exercise enough and die much younger than those who move around a lot. Big savings on healthcare and pension payments. Free fags and free booze for those on SW payments might even speed up the process!

Per day ain't it?

I haven't read a single article saying that everyone on social welfare will get this bonus, they all say as the OP said, that it's those on disability, carers etc. The fact they all seem to specify this leads me to believe that it's because it's only those that will get it.

I'm in the same boat, single man, and I lost my job in October meaning I didn't qualify for the Christmas bonus and even if this one does go to all jobseekers if it's limited to those on it over 12 months I won't get this one either. I don't understand why that is a condition of it, I was making minimum wage it's not like I was able to squirrel away huge sums. I was also paying taxes the last few years. Yet I can't get the bonus while someone who hasn't paid in at all will?

Boils my blood how people working believe all unemployed people get handouts thrown at them left and right. They've obviously never been in the system (lucky them). There's actually lots of loopholes they use to keep certain things off you, like this bewildering 12 months thing. After college I did one of those Jobbridge internships, led to nowhere and then when it was done I was denied fuel allowance that winter because the entire 9 months on Jobridge didn't count towards the time you needed to be on the dole to get it. If I did nothing at all those 9 months I would have gotten it, instead I was working full time for free.

And they do actually apply the conditions, the poster above will be happy to hear. I've already had two meetings with Intreo where they check you are applying for jobs, and tbh both people I dealt with were not very nice, really talked down to me, which wasn't what I needed after losing my job.

The full employment thing isn't true everywhere. I live in a small rural town. There's not many jobs going. I check every day, apply for whatever I can. I have no car and transport around here is a joke which limits me a lot. For family reasons and the fact I have a dog it would be difficult to move.

The guy in Intreo said they're under pressure to move people off the live register. Why would that be if we are at full employment? Believe me a lot of these full employment numbers are smoke and mirrors and made look good by putting as many people on CE schemes or courses as they can - then you don't count on the register.

Telling someone unemployed to 'just move' to get a job... Uh, have you tried looking on daft lately. There's nowhere to move to! And if you found somewhere in an area that has more jobs it's going to cost you a fortune to pay the deposit at current levels. Where does an unemployed person get the money to relocate when cost of living is so high you can barely save 20 quid a week? And a lot of landlords or houseshares will only take people who are working.

There should be two categories of Unemployment benefit

One for those who have worked for a period of greater than lets say 5 years and have made some effort

Second one for those who never worked a day in their lives and this should be UK type Dole levels

A person is hounded for asking a simple question, on what is the state benefits forum. Leaves me thinking that maybe the site's problems aren't the site itself, but the user base instead.

do you have a jab yerself?

Yep, you'd swear everyone who's on the dole is a lifelong scrounger reading some of these responses. I've worked since I was 14 but I find myself on jobseekers at the moment. It's not fun and I can guarantee you that pretty much nobody who is used to working wants to be on it. And comments such as "Just find a job in any sector" aren't particularly helpful. As with most things, it's not that simple in reality. I work in an extremely competitive, highly specialised industry. If I leave it, I likely won't get back in. It may come to that, but hopefully not, because I worked my arse off to get to where I am.

So forgive me if I don't appear to be tugging my forelock sufficiently for drawing down my princely sum of €220 a week for a few months.

Most of those payments are for long term unemployed or never employed.

People ,usually workers who find themselves redundant or recently unemployed will just get the standard 220 euro if their lucky.

Yes- indeed...Unemployed people get everything for free. That shite talk was already around 50 years ago. I heard it since from nearly every workmate I ever had. And guess what- this bull will be still around in another 50 years time. Some things will never change!

In the meantime I enjoy another can of Dutch Gold!

QED!

Relax! You are still alive, aren't you? So you think those folks in need don't deserve anything? As I said- I heard that one for the last 50 years!

Dear lord did you say your 50 or 5 🤔

Extraordinary Naive comments, you seem to show an extraordinary lack of understanding on how the real world works and interest in a forum that deals with State Benifits

Oh dear- what did I do wrong now?

Nobody said that those people you mention don't need help. But you are clearly just hitting at others who get something. And all because someone asked a question about the spring bonus.

LOL!

How on earth did you come to that conclusion?