Keep to your agreement to look for work. Your JSA payments will be stopped if you do not keep to your agreement to look for work and cannot give a good reason. Use a benefits calculator to check how much JSA you can get, and how your other benefits will be affected. All benefits, pensions and allowances are usually paid into your bank, building society or credit union account. You may have to wait up to 7 days after applying for your JSA to start, and up to 2 weeks after that to get your first payment.
You do not need to pay this money back, and it will not affect the amount of Universal Credit you get. Check what you need to do. If you have just left school, you cannot get Jobseeker's Allowance. To get Jobseeker's Allowance you must be at least 18 and be out of school for 3 months.
The 3 month disqualification rule does not apply to Youthreach participants. If you are a third-level student studying full-time, you cannot claim the dole JA or JB. You cannot sign on outside term-time, such as during the summer holidays unless you are a mature student. However, once you have finished college permanently you can claim a jobseeker's payment if you cannot find work.
This is also the case if you leave college without finishing your course. The DSP has a fast-tracking system for people who sign off JA to take up work for a short period of up to 12 weeks or to go on a short training course lasting up to 12 weeks.
You must inform your Intreo Centre or local Social Welfare branch office before you start work or training. Your Rent Supplement can also be suspended for up to 12 weeks. If you were getting an age-related reduced rate of JA and you take part in a course of education, training or an employment support scheme the appropriate personal rate of payment applicable to that course or scheme will apply as long as you are aged under When you complete the course you will go back to your previous age-related JA rate.
Any means you have are deducted from this rate. Your payment can be reduced if you do not attend meetings when the DSP asks you to.
It can also be reduced if you do not take part in an appropriate employment support scheme, work experience or training. You can find out more in our document about penalties for not meeting the conditions of your jobseeker's payment. If you qualify for JA, you get an amount for yourself, which is called the personal rate of payment. You may also get an increase in your payment for an adult dependant and any child dependants.
A child dependant is usually a child up to 18 years of age who lives with you. If you and your partner are both getting a social welfare payment, you will each get a half-rate IQC. The means test will assess their income from the scheme in the same way as income from a job where they pay PRSI.
If your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant is getting a social welfare payment in his or her own right with some exceptions or is on a Further Education and Training FET course or VTOS course and getting an allowance you will not get an IQA, but you will get a half-rate increase for any qualified children. If you provide advice please click on 'I am helping someone else'.
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Contribution-based Jobseekers Allowance is paid for up to 6 months, but only if you paid enough Class 1 National Insurance contributions when you were working. You can get it even if your partner works or if you have savings. The calculator can not work out if you are entitled to contribution-based JSA.
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