They may request evidence that you have been looking for work, e.g. rejection letters from employers.
If you were looking for employment, surely you would have already registered with FAS?
Yes, the meeting with Fas is mandatory when claiming UA but no, it's not a grilling and they won't force you to do a course.
I assume you're actively looking for alternative employment. Tell them how thats going and what you've done so far. They might try to help with it if they can. Depending on your field of expertise, they might just leave you at it. I had to attend an interview a few years ago, but IT isn't one of FAS's strong points so they just said to get back in touch if I wanted/needed some help.
Today I received a letter from the Social Welfare Office stating: that I must attent an interview to my local FAS Employmnt Office. If I fail my U/A will possibly be severed.
I just wanted to know what happens at the FAS office if anyone else has attented an interview like this and is there anything i should know before i go?
Will I be ''forced'' to select a training course with FAS and if i do/don't what rights do i have?
I'd basically like to know exactly what is in store for me over the next week and a half.
Thanks if your able to help!...the more info will be more hepful.
Thanks again AAM.com.
Generally meetings like this are designed to ensure that you are actually looking for work and not just making a career for yourself on welfare. If you are genuinely out of work because you can't get a job and would like to work then you have nothing to fear and they can only help you.
If however you are just a sponger who wants to spend as long as possible sitting on your This post will be deleted if not edited to remove bad language taking other people's hard earned taxes for nothing, then you do have everything to fear, and you'll get what you deserve!
I have no problem with this interview as €165.80 pw just isn't enough to live on, so this is a good thing. I'm definitely not a sponger and I want to have some kind of a career in my life.
PS-you mean I have everything to fear if I like sitting on my This post will be deleted if not edited to remove bad language, spending the Government's hard earned tax. If I wasnt on the dole tha taxpayers wouldnt get their money back anyway.
You wouldnt happen to be a civil servant yourself would you LFF?
But anyway thanx for the heads-up I know exactly what ur on about..
no i'm not a civil servant, would love their wages and conditions though.
all i'm saying is that if you've a genuine reason for being on welfare that isn't "i just dont want to work" then they'll happily help you.
I'm not sure what you're trying to suggest when you say that taxpayers wouldn't get their money back. If there were fewer on welfare then presumeably there would be lower taxes in the first place. The reason taxes exist is to pay for services - which include social welfare costs, and presumably the less people that use those services then the lower the costs - hence the less tax money that is required. Surely that makes sense?
The idea of welfare is to support those who cannot support themselves with a basic subsistance income. If people simply see it as a long term option then its no longer a useful concept. All I am saying is that it can be - and is - widely abused by those who do not wish to work, and I've lived amongst lots of these people over the years, they do exist.
GIVE ME A JOB AND I'LL WORK!!!!
No but seriously if there was a 0% unemployment rate in Ireland i really don't think that taxes would be abolished or even lowered beacause, no dole seekers = more money for polititions.
Q.If everybody put their bins out yearly, would the bin tax be lowered?
A.I Don't Think So!!!!
With an narrow minded attitude like that no wonder you re not working!!
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