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  Donna Ive been in Dublin nealry5 months,,I worked here when I first got here,,,but work was only temp,,so went on the social,,,they have refused me point blank for any kind of payment, Community Welfare Officers have spoke to me like a piece of dirt an said I can get money to leave the country but they wont give me money to live here,,,I have recently got a skin disease which has been caused by stress,,(due t the lack of help here) and now cant work, I know of a few people who have came into this country from Croatia an Spain and never worked here,,,came here a couple of weeks before me and got paid within for weeks also rent allowance, I have lost 2 stone in weight,,,I havent got anyone here to help me, I have got TD,s and Sinn Fein to help me,,but the goverment are ignoring them too, I find this country a chore to live in,,,I came here to work my backside off, but now I cant get work because of my disease, so I,m left here to starve and not one person in this govermet gives two hoots,,,,,they are quick enough to take tax and insurance of us but are reall slow to help anyone,,,,why is it that one person gets something and another doesnt,,,I,m Scottish an have been on the Social 3 times in my life,,,I moved to Portugal and worked 3 jobs there,,,and was there for 9 years,,,bringing up my 4 sons without help from anyone,,,,and yet people that have been on the Social for all their lives get better treated,,,,it makes you wonder why these people are in the goverment, if they are treating decent hard working people like lepers, they want to stop spending money on holidays and cars an houses for themselves and do what there meant to do,,,,help the country,,,,why oh why do people let these ignorant goverment workers get away with it,,,I have now gone to a lawyer an the papers about my story,,,,if I dont people will get treated like me,,,and there is no way I,m letting them away with it,,,,I didnt come into this country to be spoke to like a dog,,,,I,m a human being,,,,and if one person can get everything, why cant another,,,,if its the law,,,then all people should be treated the same,,,,no wonder there is racism in Ireland an Britain,,,,cos the goverments all over,,,,treat people differently, and its about someone said something.

  about 5 months ago
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  Chris Unbelievable. Ireland and the UK have a Common Travel Area agreement which is taken into account for SW purposes, and if you can show that your "centre of interest" has transferred to Ireland and you no longer have any "interest" in the UK you should have no problem qualifying. What if you move to the UK and they say that you aren't entitled to payments there either? Just a reminder, the Health Service Exec administers disability, I don't think you should go for that, jobseekers allowance is administered by the SW crowd, and you probably qualify for that, anyway it sounds like its been going on a while, at the minute there's no recruitment going on, no one is getting new payments from the government, and everyone is hunkering down and trying to protect their lot.

  about 4 months ago
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  Donna Hi Chris thanks for writing back,,,,
  
  I recieved a letter after writing this,,,,saying I,m being refused again,,,,so went down to local social welfare office,,,they have now opened anew benefit for me,,,dont ask me what as I havent a clue,,,,they have to now write to Portugal for my contributions again,,,,as they lost all my forms from th first time I handed them in ,,which was 3 months ago,,,they have told me it more weeks,,,,in the meantime I could apply for Community Welfare Payment,,,,so I did,,,and they said no way am I getting anything,,,so as far as I can see ,,,,this place can leave people starving,,,,dont think the UK would do that,,,,well they dont I know that,,,as there wouldnt be so many people coming into the country if they didnt help people..
  
  I know of some nigerian peope,,,(good luck to them I say) who went in to the social here and handed in every form of benefit that there entitled to and got paid within4 weeks,,,,so its not true that people arent getting any money,,,,coz they are,,,,I also know a friends mother who has just quit her job in the social as she was told to put all foreigners claims to the top,,and the rest to the bottom of the queue,,,,I dont have a problem with anyone from any country,,,as I,m the same as them,,,,what i do have a problem with is,,,,treating people differently,,,especially there own peope,,,(which I,m not),racism in these countries,,,,its the goverments that are causing it.
  
  So I,m to wait more time now because of their mistake,,,I have been told to go to the papers and let eveyone know what the are doing to people,,,,I have paid tax all my life and wanted to come to Ireland to work as the work in portugal has gone now,,,,but i,m begining to think it was the worst move I have eve rmade,,,what keeps me here is the people of Ireland,,,,(not the ones who work for goverment,,,,there the most selfish and arrogant people I have ever met in my life,,,,they obviously have an o level in talking to people like dirt,,,,I wouldnt talk to a dog they way Ive been spoken to me,,,but what goes round comes round,,,,one day those same people might be in my situation,,,,I can only hope...),,,they are good people here and I enjoy there company,,,but I can only wait and see what happens now....
  
  once again thanks Chris for you info xx

  about 4 months ago