"... such as the new JobsPlus scheme and the national internship programme, JobBridge - are open to people with disabilities."
Yet JobsPlus is not open to someone on a Disability payment, see below.
Who can be considered as eligible employees?
Any jobseeker that has been in receipt of a jobseeker’s payment from the Department of Social Protection for 12 months or more will be considered eligible to be recruited under this incentive .
Therefore, a jobseeker that is currently in receipt of a jobseeker’s payment (jobseeker’s assistance or jobseeker’s benefit) can be recruited, but they must have been in receipt of this payment for at least 12 months immediately prior to starting work (periods on jobseeker’s assistance and jobseeker’s benefit can be combined).
Periods of casual employment, where the jobseeker has been receiving a reduced rate jobseeker’s payment, may count towards satisfying the qualifying period, as will breaks in jobseeker’s payments as a result of periods of illness during which illness benefit is paid.
Jobseekers not in receipt of a jobseeker’s payment and signing for PRSI Jobseeker credits will also be eligible once they are the required number of days on the Live Register.
Time spent in prison may count towards the qualifying time once entitlement to a qualifying social welfare payment is re-established.
If a jobseeker was engaged on community employment, Tús or the rural social scheme (and some other schemes) and is now unemployed, they may also be eligible.
Darren Priest
Posted on 9 Dec 2013 4:16 pm
"... such as the new JobsPlus scheme and the national internship programme, JobBridge - are open to people with disabilities."
Yet JobsPlus is not open to someone on a Disability payment, see below.
Who can be considered as eligible employees?
Any jobseeker that has been in receipt of a jobseeker’s payment from the Department of Social Protection for 12 months or more will be considered eligible to be recruited under this incentive .
Therefore, a jobseeker that is currently in receipt of a jobseeker’s payment (jobseeker’s assistance or jobseeker’s benefit) can be recruited, but they must have been in receipt of this payment for at least 12 months immediately prior to starting work (periods on jobseeker’s assistance and jobseeker’s benefit can be combined).
Periods of casual employment, where the jobseeker has been receiving a reduced rate jobseeker’s payment, may count towards satisfying the qualifying period, as will breaks in jobseeker’s payments as a result of periods of illness during which illness benefit is paid.
Jobseekers not in receipt of a jobseeker’s payment and signing for PRSI Jobseeker credits will also be eligible once they are the required number of days on the Live Register.
Time spent in prison may count towards the qualifying time once entitlement to a qualifying social welfare payment is re-established.
If a jobseeker was engaged on community employment, Tús or the rural social scheme (and some other schemes) and is now unemployed, they may also be eligible.