Family income supplement is designed to assist people with families in low-income, full-time employment who might otherwise be dependent on a welfare payment.
Community employment, or CE, is a transitional training and employment programme designed and funded by FÁS to move the long-term unemployed and other disadvantaged groups towards gainful employment. It helps people re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to a work routine. It also assists them to enhance or develop their technical and personal skills. For that reason, each CE employer is expected to prepare a personal development plan for participants. That process provides participants with an opportunity to engage in useful work in their communities on a temporary basis as part of the process of transition to full-time employment.
As a State-funded employment and training programme rather than full-time remunerative employment, CE earnings are specifically excluded by regulation for the purpose of FIS qualification. There are no plans to amend those regulations.