Am i entilted to any social welfare payment

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sandra28

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can any one please help me with this im a stay at home mom with one baby living with my partner he is in full time employment am i entilted to any social welfare payment????
 
You must be available for, and looking for full time work to apply for Jobseeker's payments - if you haven't been working, then any entitlement to Jobseeker's will be means-tested on your partner's income.
 
You are living together as a family , and Social Welfare should recognise this .

Check out FIS ( family income supplement ) and medical /GP card entitlements
 
I took the below from the online Working for Work publication by the INOU (Irish National Organisation of the Unemplopyed)This explains entitlements and has examples of how to work out JB/JA payments if a partner is working


Your Family and Social Welfare
The Irish Social Welfare system is organised around the family. If you
qualify for a social welfare payment you get a payment for yourself,
which is called the ‘personal rate’ of payment. You may also get
extra payments for adult and child dependants – called Qualified
Adult and Qualified Child payments.
Qualified Adult Dependant – A qualified adult dependant is your
spouse/partner. You can get an allowance for your spouse/partner
once they are mainly or fully supported by you.
• This means if they are earning €310.00 gross (before tax) or less
per week, they will be regarded as a qualified adult. If a
spouse/partner earns less than €100 gross per week then you are
entitled to a full adult dependent increase. If they earn between
€100.00 and €310.00 gross (before tax) per week a reduced
qualified adult payment will be given. This applies to certain
benefit payments only.

Credits
Homemaker’s Scheme – From 6 April 1994, if you have left the
workforce for a long period of time to care for a child/ren under 12
years of age, you may be entitled to homemaker’s credits for this
period. You must have paid a PRSI contribution that would cover you
for the State Pension (Contributory) and satisfy all scheme conditions.
 
Perhaps you are confusing Home Carers Tax credits with Homemaker's PRSI credits.

"Credits
Homemaker’s Scheme – From 6 April 1994, if you have left the
workforce for a long period of time to care for a child/ren under 12
years of age, you may be entitled to homemaker’s credits for this
period. You must have paid a PRSI contribution that would cover you
for the State Pension (Contributory) and satisfy all scheme conditions."


Home Carer’s Tax Credit is a tax credit given to married couples (who are jointly assessed for tax) where one spouse works in the home caring for a dependent person. The tax you are liable to pay is calculated as a percentage of your income. A tax credit is deducted from this to give the actual amount of tax that you have to pay. A tax credit has the effect of reducing your payable tax by the amount of the credit.
More information can be found on how your tax is calculated.
Rules

A Home Carer’s Tax Credit can be claimed when:

  • The married couple is jointly assessed for tax
  • One spouse works in the home caring for one or more dependent people
  • The home carer’s own income is below €5,080 in the tax year you are claiming for.
You can claim a reduced credit if the carer's income is between €5,080 and €6,880 in 2010 (unchanged from 2009).
 
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