Michael Colreavy (Sligo-North Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Social Protection if those who successfully conclude the TUS scheme will receive their first three days payment after returning to social welfare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56664/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Where a person was in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance and had then participated in the TÚS scheme and where s/he subsequently applies for jobseeker’s allowance immediately on completing TÚS, payment of jobseeker’s allowance will resume from the first day subject to all of the qualifying conditions continuing to be met.

Payment is made from the first day in this case as the jobseeker’s allowance application is considered to be a continuation of the previous claim, unlike the situation which pertains in the case of a new jobseeker claim where the first three days are not payable.