Redundancy
If you are under 55 and get a redundancy payment of more than €50,000 you are disqualified from claiming Jobseeker's Benefit. The table below shows how long you may be disqualified for.
The length of the disqualification is at the discretion of the deciding officer (who can take your circumstances into account).
Any period of disqualification is subtracted from your total Jobseeker's Benefit entitlement.
So if you are disqualified for 3 weeks (which is 18 days payment) your JB claim starts on day 19.
I know that is the theory but I think if you don't claim until after the disqualification period is up then you get JB for the full term, this certainly was the case up to couple of years ago unless that has been changed since. Local sw office would (if you got the right person) tell you go away and come back and make your claim after the period was up.
If you are over 55 years of age there is no disqualification period.
Seems there is a lot of sneaky stuff in the system.
Would the over 55 rule apply to someone who left their job or scheme for whatever reason.
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