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Entitlements When Coming Home form Abroad

  • 26-03-2011 08:24AM
    #1
    Poulgorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 814 ✭✭✭


    I have a daughter who is an employee of an American multinational, with a factory in Galway

    In August 2009, she was seconded to a plant owned by the same company in California. She is there since, with the same company.

    She is still being paid by the Galway branch of the company: she pays income tax in the USA, but PRSI payments (or whatever it is called now) and the new levies that were introduced in the last budget are paid to the Irish State.

    The American factory have requested that she should stay with them in California for another year. The Galway factory are saying ok, but if you do that, they do not guarantee that she will have a job at the Galway factory when she returns in April next year. The Galway factory want her back now.

    What she wants to know is: if she comes home in April 2012, and is laid off by the Galway factory, will she be entitled to Unemployment Benefit (or whatever it is called now) ?

    I suppose, basically, what she wants to know is whether she will be treated by the welfare authorities here as if she was still working in this country.


    Thank you


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  • #2
    Granger13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭Granger13


    Poulgorm wrote: »
    I have a daughter who is an employee of an American multinational, with a factory in Galway

    In August 2009, she was seconded to a plant owned by the same company in California. She is there since, with the same company.

    She is still being paid by the Galway branch of the company: she pays income tax in the USA, but PRSI payments (or whatever it is called now) and the new levies that were introduced in the last budget are paid to the Irish State.

    The American factory have requested that she should stay with them in California for another year. The Galway factory are saying ok, but if you do that, they do not guarantee that she will have a job at the Galway factory when she returns in April next year. The Galway factory want her back now.

    What she wants to know is: if she comes home in April 2012, and is laid off by the Galway factory, will she be entitled to Unemployment Benefit (or whatever it is called now) ?

    I suppose, basically, what she wants to know is whether she will be treated by the welfare authorities here as if she was still working in this country.


    Thank you

    Jobseekers Benefit is based on claimants who have 260 or more paid contributions since starting in insured employment.

    To make a claim for this you must have at least 104 PRSI paid contributions since you first started work, and have 39 paid or credited in the relevant tax year (of which at least 13 must be paid)

    As she has been still paying her PRSI to the Irish State The Department of Social Protection should have a record of this as they keep a record of all social insurance payments, both paid and credited, under your Personal Public Service (PPS) number.

    The Irish National Organisation of the unemployed have information officers that should be able to tell you if she has a direct claim to a Unemployment assistant payment. Their contact number is : 018560088. Also this may not be the case but she could be also subject the the Habitual Residency act as she has been out of the State for almost 2years.


  • #3
    eastbono
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭eastbono


    If she qualifies for Jobseekers Benefit she will not have to undergo habitual residence until such time as her Jobseekers Benefit is exhausted and she moves onto Jobseekers Allowance which is means tested.


  • #4
    Granger13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭Granger13


    The JB is paid for 12 months based on full amounts of paid contriubtions listed above. . As eastbono said the JA is means tested. You can having savings,investments up to a limit of 20,000 ather that any more savings investments will affect the JA rate. All income is taken into account for a means test with certain disregards.


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