Sentences with phrase «social welfare payments»

For most social welfare payments any income from maintenance is assessed as means.

However, you must meet all the conditions above and the Back to Work Family Dividend will be paid to you (as the recipient of the primary social welfare payment).

Interestingly, a small number — 0.2 % — depend on unemployment or social welfare payments as their most important source of income.

Read more in our document on social welfare payments and student grants.

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For instance, the administration of social welfare payments by the government ameliorates absolute poverty.

If you claim a primary social welfare payment at any time within the 2 - year period, the BTWFD payment will stop.

The Back to Education allowance Scheme is an educational opportunities scheme for persons in receipt of certain social welfare payments who wish to pursue an approved full - time second or third level course of education in an approved college leading to a recognised qualification.

Income you or your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant may have including social welfare payments and student grants.

Income from other sources includes rental income from the letting of property, income from an occupational pension, foreign social welfare payments, income from a trust fund, income under a deed of covenant, other cash income, etc.,

If you are separated but giving your spouse or civil partner a weekly maintenance payment which is at least $ 124.80 per week (the same as the current rate of IQA for Jobseeker's Allowance) you can get an IQA with your personal social welfare payment.

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For most social welfare payments you get a full - rate Increase for a Qualified Child (IQC) if you get an Increase for a Qualified Adult for your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant or you are parenting alone.

You are not eligible for BTWFD if you or your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant is getting a primary social welfare payment or is on an employment or training scheme.

Measures included increased taxes, specific targets for reducing the numbers employed by the state, reductions in social welfare payments, reductions in the minimum wage, and reductions in pension payments to former state employees.

You can not be expected to do everything right away, but if the deceased was getting a social welfare payment or you were claiming for them as a dependant or you were getting a Carer's Allowance to look after them, it's important that you notify the Department of Social Protection within the first few days of the death.

Depending on your income and circumstances you may be entitled to a social welfare payment in your own right, for example:

So if you apply for a social welfare payment only you, the applicant, have to satisfy the habitual residence condition.

The introduction of the controversial Civil Partnership Bill will have cost implications for capital taxes and social welfare payments.

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You must have made a certain number of PRSI contributions to be eligible for some social welfare payments.

Your adult dependant must not have a social welfare payment in his or her own right except for:

If you and your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant are both getting a social welfare payment you will each get a half - rate IQC for each child.

Where the parent with whom the child is residing is not in receipt of a social welfare payment other than

If you or your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant qualifies for Disability Allowance and the other is getting another social welfare payment, you will each get the weekly personal rate of your respective payment.

A limitation applies which means that if you are claiming Jobseeker's Allowance and your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant is getting certain social welfare payments, the total amount paid to you as a couple can not be more than the maximum amount that would be paid to one person (including adult and child dependants) on one social welfare payment.

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 Increase for a Qualified Adult but you will get a half - rate increase for any qualified children.

The allowance is payable on a reducing scale over a two year period i.e. 100 % of a person's social welfare payment (in this case One Parent Family Payment (OFP)-RRB- in year one and 75 % in year two.

Participants in receipt of One Parent Family Payment, Disability Allowance, Illness Benefit, Blind Pension, Invalidity Pension, Deserted Wife's Benefit / Allowance, Widow's / Widower's Contributory / Non Contributory Pension and Prisoner's Wife's Allowance continue to receive their social welfare payment in the normal way.

Widow's, Widower's or Surviving Civil Partner's Contributory Pension is not payable at the same time as other social welfare payments, except in the following circumstances:

If you qualify for a social welfare payment you get an amount for yourself, which is called the «personal rate of payment».

You apply to the section in the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection that pays your social welfare payment.

However BTWEA can not be paid at the same time as another social welfare payment so if the original claimant (now a qualified adult) decides to claim another payment you must stop claiming BTWEA.

If you did not claim for your adult dependant at the time you were making your claim, contact the section in the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection which pays your social welfare payment.

You will only get a half - rate IQC if you and your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant are both getting a social welfare payment.

Some social welfare payments are not taken into account as income including Child Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance and Supplementary Welfare Allowance.

To get an Increase for a Qualified Adult you must give details about your adult dependant on your claim form when you are making your claim for a social welfare payment.

Credited contributions are awarded to a Lone Parent who qualified for Lone Parents Allowance or One - Parent Family Payment for the first time since October 1990 and who, immediately prior to qualifying for the receipt of these payments was in receipt of another social welfare payment which attracted credits i.e. Jobseeker's Benefit / Allowance, Maternity Benefit, Illness Benefit, Health and Safety Benefit, Adoptive Benefit, Invalidity Benefit or Pre Retirement Allowance.

If the customer and spouse, civil partner or cohabitant are both getting a social welfare payment, a half - rate IQC for each child is payable to both individuals.

For most social welfare payments your adult dependant can not have gross weekly earnings or income (before tax and PRSI deductions) of more than $ 310.

is only payable once in respect of a child and is not payable to a person's spouse / civil partner on another social welfare payment.

However an Increase for a Qualified Adult (IQA) will no longer be paid and your social welfare payment will be assessed as income for their WFP payment.

For most social welfare payments, a full - rate IQC is payable if the customer is receiving an Increase for a Qualified Adult (IQA) for a spouse / civil partner / cohabitant, or s / he is parenting alone.

If your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant has a social welfare payment (see exceptions above) in their own right or is on a FET or VTOS course and getting an allowance in his or her own right, you can not get an IQA on their behalf but you can get a half - rate increase for each qualified child.

You can find out more about how capital is valued in the means test in our document Capital and social welfare payments.

One - Parent Family Payment is not payable in addition to other social welfare payments (other than with Child Benefit) except in the following circumstances:

If you are currently getting Carer's Allowance and your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant is claiming another social welfare payment (for example, Jobseeker's Allowance), your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant may claim an increase in their social welfare payment for you as a qualified adult and your Carer's Allowance will be reduced by 50 %.