The Department of Social Protection has a useful online tool that allows social welfare recipients to anonymously calculate how starting work or increasing your hours can affect your payment.
The Benefit of Work estimator is completely anonymous and the information you provide cannot be used to identify you by the department. To use the tool, you will need to provide details on your social welfare scheme, family and children and the job you are working or considering taking on.
The estimate will include income from your employment and any social welfare payments you may still be entitled to. You do not need a MyGovID to access the tool.
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For example, if a single person without children receives €208 weekly in Jobseekers Benefit were to get work for 24 hours per week that pays the current minimum wage of €10.50 per hour, their income would rise to €333.62 per week. This is comprised of €250.42 in wages after tax and €83.20 in Jobseekers Benefit.
If a single parent with three children under the age of 12 who is receiving €328 weekly from the One-Parent Family Payment were to work 30 hours per week at minimum wage, their income would rise to €643.71. This is comprised of €255.50 in the One-Parent Family Payment, €294.21 in wages after tax and €94 from qualifying for the Working Family Payment.
You can access the Department of Social Protection's Benefit of Work estimator here.
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