Social Welfare Payments
Dail Éireann — 2022-07-14
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Éamon Ó Cuív (FF), Galway West

In regard to the incentive to work, if a self-employed person is on the jobseeker's allowance, 100% of his or her income from self-employment will be deducted from the jobseeker's allowance. Another situation I find totally anomalous is that if somebody is receiving a non-contributory pension, he or she can earn €200 a week and receive the full pension, but if he or she gets that from self-employment, it will be deducted from the pension. There is no logic for having such a difference between self-employment in farming or fishing and PAYE employment.

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Sitting date: 2022-07-14