A person is disqualified from receipt of unemployment assistance for any day in which they are attending a full-time day course of study. This disqualification extends over vacation periods during the academic year and summer vacation periods between 2 consecutive years of a course of study.
Second level students are also disqualified from receipt of unemployment assistance for three months after completion of the Leaving Certificate examination or for three months after finishing full-time second level education (whichever is the later). This measure does not apply to unemployment benefit.
Where a child is disqualified for three months and the parent is in receipt of a social welfare payment which includes an increase for him or her, this increase continues to be paid for the duration of the disqualification. There are no plans at present to change existing arrangements in this regard.