IRISH PEOPLE PAID TAX now IRISH PEOPLE need WELFARE..but IRISH GET NOTHING..WHY?

My partner is unfortunately out of work for 15 months. Do not judge please..he works in a specialist area, has worked 25yrs and paid taxes and does not want to be unemployed. Its not just a case of taking any job and its not snobbery, he just wont get it in a supermarket with his experience. The reason we cannot move for him to get work is because i'm the only child of two sick parents %26amp; a sick sibling (all in care) and i want to be near them. I work full time and take home 530 euro p.w after tax. We pay 900 euro rent. Again dont judge us for renting, we just did not want to end up with a huge mortgage we could not pay off if one of us was made redundant so we decided to stay renting. We are co habiting this past 4 years. But....we do not have Joint accounts or anything like that. Everything is split down the middle. My partner received the money you get from if you have paid taxes until last november. Then it was cut and he was means tested. It was then decided by welfare that i pay all the bills and that hes not entitled to any benefit. Just because i live with him. He mentioned me as partner and had to show my payslip. HOwever things have been bad since xmas and we split last January and he has since moved to his sisters house, not with me. The welfare has decided that he is not entitled to any money based on MY INCOME. but at the moment we are on a break. How will this work out now? Its just a break, it doesnt mean we wont get back together. Now i'm strangled paying rent on a full house but i refuse to move, i'm not sharing with strangers, i'm 34yr old woman with too much stress in mylife already adn we are decent hard working peopleIRISH PEOPLE PAID TAX now IRISH PEOPLE need WELFARE..but IRISH GET NOTHING..WHY?
Really Poodle it is getting very boring now.



Just how do you think the world would turn if everybody expected to be carried even in times when they have no work if they have sums like 35K in savings???



The benefit system is not perfect but it is all we have and better than nothing at all. You have a job, your partner is capable of working he just doesn't want 'any job' (your words. Stop moaning and bangingyour head against the wal and get on with your life. If you have to tighten your belt then so be it - it is no different to half the population.



For the last time, you are a couple, (even tho you claim you are on a break now since January but were together earlier in the week when all this started). As a couple you live a joint life including finances. That is the way it is.IRISH PEOPLE PAID TAX now IRISH PEOPLE need WELFARE..but IRISH GET NOTHING..WHY?
Sorry, that is how the system works. If you are going to shack up, then your income counts.
You keep asking this question or a variation of it and you keep getting pretty much the same sort of responses each time. It should, before now, have started to dawn on you that you are are quite wrong to feel agrieved in the way you do and that you will not get the answer you are looking for except from those who are similarly self-concerned, resentful and wrong.

It would not be fair to the very many others suffering in the downturn if you could have the benefits of a single person when YOU feel like it and those of a cohabiting couple when they work out best for you. You simply can't have what you want and in my view it is quite right that you can't.