thanks for your patience, but I read it any my frustration stems from yet another poorly worded sentence on that page....
You get credits automatically if you are fully unemployed and getting Jobseeker's Benefit.
I assume fully unemployed means no work at all.
I, like many others, do work one day a week, and mark an X on the Casual JB yellow form. So that one days work (where I earn less than EUR 38, and therefore don't enjoy a PRSI Class A from my employer) is likely costing me alot, it looks like the SW will give me no contribution. I'd be better off not doing that little bit of work in the private sector.
and even if SW did make a contriibution (or credit, as the words seem to mean the same) what PRSI Class would it be?
That page makes me so angry raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrhh LOL