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Social welfare and self-employment

Overview: social welfare payments and self-employment

Signing on for the first time

Jobseeker's Benefit and self-employed people

Becoming ill while self-employed

Jobseeker's Allowance and self-employed people

Supplementary Welfare Allowance and self-employed people

The means test for Jobseeker's Allowance

Exceptional Needs and Urgent Needs Payments

Claiming for adult and child dependants

Additional benefits (medical card, housing and others)

Tax and PRSI

Overview: tax and PRSI

Becoming a voluntary contributor

Am I self-employed or an employee?

Keeping records

Tax for self-employed people

Class S social insurance (PRSI)

Closing a business, debt issues

Closing a business

Debt issues and self-employed people

Setting up a business

Overview: setting up a business

Back to Work Enterprise Allowance

Employers' obligations and employees' rights

Short-Term Enterprise Allowance

Sources of information

Going back to education or back to work

Overview: going back to education or back to work

Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS)

Back to Education Programme

Employment schemes

Back to Education Allowance