Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person currently receiving jobseeker's allowance is permitted to carry out minor work for a family member, in the family members home, where no money is exchanged. [53400/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The jobseeker's schemes provide income support for people who are seeking their first job or have lost work and are seeking alternative employment. A fundamental qualifying condition for jobseeker’s allowance is that a person must be available for and genuinely seeking full-time work.

A person must be available for work in respect of each day for which s/he declares that s/he is unemployed. The onus is on the claimant to demonstrate that this condition is satisfied.

Subject to the circumstances of an individual case, a person engaged in an activity such as is outlined may not satisfy these criteria in relation to the days where the activity is pursued.