Welfare Entitlements

[wowow]

Hi,
The company I work for are offering voluntary redundancies. Before saying yes or no to it, I am calling down to my local Social Welfare office to find out if this will be financially viable for me. I'm just looking for a bit of advice before I go down, as I know that going in with a bit of knowledge as to what I'm entitled to will help. I'm a single parent, father not on the scene, have not been getting single parents allowance as my wages have been too high. I'm hoping to go to college part time in Sept, so will be working part time also and I have a mortgage. So far i have looked up that I would be entitled to, Singe Parents Allowance, FIS, Medical Card. But there are also other small things like Fuel Allowance, Electricity Allowance, Mortgage Interest Relief, etc. I don't know if I'll be entiteled to all these but it would help going in to her and having her say yes or no rather than not knowing anything.
If anyone could be of help I'd really appreciate it, sorry for the long winded post by the way!!

 

[ClubMan]

Perhaps the BTEA would also be relevant here?

Might be an idea to contact www.citizensinformtion.ie to see if they can advise you of the sorts of things that you might be entitled to?

 

[Welfarite]

You must be on OFP for a year (presuning third level, 6 months for second level)before qualifying for BTEA. Look at http://www.welfare.ie/publications/sw82.html for conditions re OFP. follows the links for detqails on qualfying for the other beneits (fuel, etc.) Mortgage Interst Relief is dealt with by your locval Community Welfare Officer at Health centre