Re: Lone parent
The number of hours worked doen't matter adn you can earn up to €146.50 before any affect on payment. This is from
www.welfare.ie :
"If you are working, we assess your earnings from employment or self-employment as follows:
- We ignore the first €146.50 of weekly earnings.
This is known as a weekly disregard.
- We assess half the remainder of your earnings as means, up to €293.00 per week.
- From 29 June 2006, we will assess half the remainder of your earnings as means, up to €375 a week.
Example:
You are a lone parent under age 66, with one dependent child and weekly earnings of €200.00, but no other income.
Gross weekly earnings
€200.00
Minus weekly disregard
- €146.50
Remainder of earnings
=€ 53.50
Divided by 2 = weekly means
€ 26.75
In this example you would get a One-Parent Family Payment of €165.10 aweek. See table in Rates of Payment booklet SW 19.
Note
If you are getting One-Parent Family Payment for at least 52 consecutive weeks and your weekly earnings increases to more than €293.00 a week (€375 from 29 June 2006), you will get half your payment for a further six months. This is known as a transitional payment.
If you received a previous transitional payment between 5 April 2001 and 31 December 2003, the total number of weeks of transitional payment cannot exceed 52.
The maximum number of weeks of transitional payment payable after 6 January 2005 is 26 weeks.
If you are a new applicant with earnings of more than €293.00 a week (€375 from 29 June 2006), you will not qualify for One-Parent Family Payment."
Family Income Supplement may also be payable if working over 19 hours per week.