JSA is paid in arrears. The payment you received on 31/12 for the 29th December to 4th January was in fact due for payment today 5th Jan, but An Post paid it out early.
You received 2 weeks last week, so are not due another payment until next week.
I've heard other reports of this happening, An Post appear to have made payments available earlier than usual which has caught people out.
Payment for 5/1 to 11/1 is not due til next week as JSA is paid in arrears, as Gipimann already said; today is the 6th.
The above from your first post indicates that you were paid for the period 22/12/ to 4/1, yet then you state ...Here are the details from my last receipt:
Date of collection: 31/12/2010
Pay Period: 22/12/10 to 28/12/10
Net Amount Due: 196.00
Pay Period: 29/12/10 to 04/01/11
Net Amount Due: 188.00
TOTAL AMOUNT PAYABLE: 384.00
The two payments I received on the 31/12 were for that week and for the week beforehand (which I had forgotten to collect, and the post office held onto the payment for me.) This 31/12 collection was not a double payment. It was that weeks' payment and the previous weeks' which I had forgotten to collect.
But but but, I'm confused. Surely the payment for 5/1 to 11/1 cannot be collected until those dates have passed? Is is not the same as working, you get paid when the week is done.
Yes but I collected my payment that covered Christmas week early too, this is a one off though cos they werent going to be working that week so technically I got double payment week before Christmas, nothing last week and back to normal from yesterday.
Regarding how it works in employment. Usually you don't get paid on the day for the week leading up to that day, you get paid for the week prior to that week, usually. I have never come across it any other way. So in that regard there is no similarity between how weekly wages operate and how social welfare payments operate.
Ive never come across that in employment. You normally get paid at the end of a week for the week worked i.e., after you have done the work - otherwise how would one calculate the hours worked?
Regarding your social welfare payment, just checked my OHs, he collected yesterday and the receipt says:
Pay Period: 30/12/10 to 05/01/11
So his receipt tallys up with what other posters are saying about the money for the pay period coming at the end of the pay period.
I worked for numerous different employers and this is always how it was done.
In that case, what I said in my last post is clearly true, i.e. that it works differently in different regions. In the 18 months that I have been collecting social welfare, it has always been the opposite for me.
I think I misunderstood your original post on that - I thought you were saying employers pay staff the week before they do the work!! Apologies!
All sorted now anyway.
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