Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Job Creation and Mortgage Support Schemes: Discussion with Department of Social Protection

1:35 pm

Photo of Aengus Ó SnodaighAengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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The person will no longer be on jobseeker's allowance, so it will be a wage rather than an allowance. It is not taxable because one falls outside the tax allowance. My question on JobsPlus was that in the past, Revenue job assist had an additional tax allowance, so there are two separate issues.