I know it’s been publicised along the way but I’m surprised this hasn’t been broadcast more tbh (although I suppose the Governments been busy with the Lowry mess).
Capped at €450 but still a nice improvement.
Genuine question: does this cover business owners who lose their business?
Probably not?
This sounds logical, why wasn’t it done from the beginning?
>It is open to applications from people whose first day of unemployment is today.
This to me sounds like it will only apply to new applicants. Would previous applicants over the last few months not get the increase? So there would be two different pools of people with unequal employment benefits? Sounds unfair and unjust.
Great idea
Monday was my day off so I will be grand .
Man I wish that was in place when I needed it
Hmm….good idea but I suspect the social welfare would be hounding you every single day of the minimum period in order to get you a new job and reduce the amount of time they have to.pay you this much. Meanwhile the long term unemployed wasters can languish unquestioned for years and years with nobody even contacting them.
60 % of minimum wage is how much? Not that much more than current 244 euros weekly on jobseeker’s. For minimum wage workers this is some BS.
I think this is a terrible idea.
The only reason we have this now is because a lot of people got a pretty sobering dose of reality during the pandemic when they faced the real possibility unemployment. They went form accusing people of being benefit scroungers choosing to live of the state, to calling for their own payments to be linked to their salary because they knew they could not survive on the standard rates.
If there is money there to increase unemployment payments it should be increased equally for everyone.
Your access to services provided by the state should not be linked to how much you contribute to the tax system.
This is needlessly complex – just raise the first 13 weeks of _everyone’s_ pay to €450 (which is still less than Minimum Wage) – and have it taper off the same.
People on Minimum Wage are going to be far more precarious than those on a higher wage, after all.
Then add an accompanying [Job Guarantee](https://www.jobguarantee.org/) program – which is voluntary – that pays a proper Living Wage; people could then opt to participate in that while in transitory private-sector-unemployment – and it could be geared towards building houses.
Overall, this is a rather regressive change to the system.
Fairly ominous with Trumps recent remarks
Can see a few american companies leaving in the near future
A lot of them want to take more work out of ireland and go to India and other asian countries with cheap labout instead, can see them doing that and blaming Trump, the difference in wages will probably offset the tax loss
Essentially this is a stealth attack on the Progressive Tax system – regressively redistributing taxes from lower paid workers to subsidize (ex-)higher paid ones.
The principles of progressive taxation involve services being provided equally to all, regardless of the level of taxation levied – with this now being tied to a ‘divide and rule’ narrative falsely linking benefits-gained to taxes-paid.
Great initiative. Now do it with pensions also.
This is how it’s done in Germany, I think you can get up to 60% of your previous monthly salary.
It’s a bit shit that it’s just for new applicants post March 31st..
I’ve worked solidly for 20 years. Unemployed since start of March.
Application done last week.
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I know it’s been publicised along the way but I’m surprised this hasn’t been broadcast more tbh (although I suppose the Governments been busy with the Lowry mess).
Capped at €450 but still a nice improvement.
Genuine question: does this cover business owners who lose their business?
Probably not?
This sounds logical, why wasn’t it done from the beginning?
>It is open to applications from people whose first day of unemployment is today.
This to me sounds like it will only apply to new applicants. Would previous applicants over the last few months not get the increase? So there would be two different pools of people with unequal employment benefits? Sounds unfair and unjust.
Great idea
Monday was my day off so I will be grand .
Man I wish that was in place when I needed it
Hmm….good idea but I suspect the social welfare would be hounding you every single day of the minimum period in order to get you a new job and reduce the amount of time they have to.pay you this much. Meanwhile the long term unemployed wasters can languish unquestioned for years and years with nobody even contacting them.
60 % of minimum wage is how much? Not that much more than current 244 euros weekly on jobseeker’s. For minimum wage workers this is some BS.
I think this is a terrible idea.
The only reason we have this now is because a lot of people got a pretty sobering dose of reality during the pandemic when they faced the real possibility unemployment. They went form accusing people of being benefit scroungers choosing to live of the state, to calling for their own payments to be linked to their salary because they knew they could not survive on the standard rates.
If there is money there to increase unemployment payments it should be increased equally for everyone.
Your access to services provided by the state should not be linked to how much you contribute to the tax system.
This is needlessly complex – just raise the first 13 weeks of _everyone’s_ pay to €450 (which is still less than Minimum Wage) – and have it taper off the same.
People on Minimum Wage are going to be far more precarious than those on a higher wage, after all.
Then add an accompanying [Job Guarantee](https://www.jobguarantee.org/) program – which is voluntary – that pays a proper Living Wage; people could then opt to participate in that while in transitory private-sector-unemployment – and it could be geared towards building houses.
Overall, this is a rather regressive change to the system.
Fairly ominous with Trumps recent remarks
Can see a few american companies leaving in the near future
A lot of them want to take more work out of ireland and go to India and other asian countries with cheap labout instead, can see them doing that and blaming Trump, the difference in wages will probably offset the tax loss
Essentially this is a stealth attack on the Progressive Tax system – regressively redistributing taxes from lower paid workers to subsidize (ex-)higher paid ones.
The principles of progressive taxation involve services being provided equally to all, regardless of the level of taxation levied – with this now being tied to a ‘divide and rule’ narrative falsely linking benefits-gained to taxes-paid.
Great initiative. Now do it with pensions also.
This is how it’s done in Germany, I think you can get up to 60% of your previous monthly salary.
It’s a bit shit that it’s just for new applicants post March 31st..
I’ve worked solidly for 20 years. Unemployed since start of March.
Application done last week.
This is highly unfair in my opinion
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