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Jobseeker's allowance for those over 25 years old is currently £56.20 per week, paid fortnightly by BACS after signing on (now known as fortnightly attendance) at the Jobs and Benefits Office.
The Department of Social Services graciously grants a period of 13 weeks to find your preferred type of work. When 13 weeks have passed you must attend a full Employment Service Interview, where your Job Seeker's Agreement is reviewed and you are told you must take any job that offers at least 16 hours per week and is within one and a half hours traveling distance. Additionally, you must sign on weekly instead of fortnightly (even though your allowance will still be paid fortnightly). I don't quite understand how the increased frequency of attendance improves job prospects; in fact the Department of Work and Pensions Research Report No. 73 "Unemployment and Jobseeking before Jobseeker's Allowance" states that despite the 13 week review there is "no evidence, at this stage in the research programme, of a long-term impact on employment prospects".
Unemployds in the Republic of Ireland get 148.80 euro per week (£101.44!), but only if they have paid 52 weeks worth of Pay Related Social Insurance (similar to National Insurance contributions in the UK). That means, much to the chagrin Northern Irish unemployds, the dual nationality status granted to citizens of Northern Ireland under Section 2 Subsection (vi) of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement does not confer the automatic entitlement to Unemployment Benefit from the Government of the Republic of Ireland.
Which is a shame. £157.64 a week would be nice. Along with a disability allowance of £58.80 for pretending you're depressed/have a bad back to your doctor. And £40 laundry allowance because you're an alcoholic and wet the bed. £256.44 a week for doing nothing.
Damn scruples.
The Department of Social Services graciously grants a period of 13 weeks to find your preferred type of work. When 13 weeks have passed you must attend a full Employment Service Interview, where your Job Seeker's Agreement is reviewed and you are told you must take any job that offers at least 16 hours per week and is within one and a half hours traveling distance. Additionally, you must sign on weekly instead of fortnightly (even though your allowance will still be paid fortnightly). I don't quite understand how the increased frequency of attendance improves job prospects; in fact the Department of Work and Pensions Research Report No. 73 "Unemployment and Jobseeking before Jobseeker's Allowance" states that despite the 13 week review there is "no evidence, at this stage in the research programme, of a long-term impact on employment prospects".
Unemployds in the Republic of Ireland get 148.80 euro per week (£101.44!), but only if they have paid 52 weeks worth of Pay Related Social Insurance (similar to National Insurance contributions in the UK). That means, much to the chagrin Northern Irish unemployds, the dual nationality status granted to citizens of Northern Ireland under Section 2 Subsection (vi) of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement does not confer the automatic entitlement to Unemployment Benefit from the Government of the Republic of Ireland.
Which is a shame. £157.64 a week would be nice. Along with a disability allowance of £58.80 for pretending you're depressed/have a bad back to your doctor. And £40 laundry allowance because you're an alcoholic and wet the bed. £256.44 a week for doing nothing.
Damn scruples.
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