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Citizens information service urge Dell employees to make contact
FOLLOWING the announcement that 1,900 workers are to be made redundant in Dell over the coming year, Limerick Citizens Information Service is urging people to consult them on the options and entitlements available to them.
The Limerick Leader has already received enquiries from concerned workers seeking information on what options they will have once they are made redundant.
Marion Browne, manager, Citizens Information Service, Catherine Street, hopes that workers would approach the advisory bureau with any questions they might have.
"I don' think that anyone should keep any problems they have to themselves because if they sit down and talk to us or Social Welfare we can help," she explained. "If they want to explore any avenues or any options, or even want to ask a question they consider highly silly we will sit with them and answer it."
Representatives from the local Social Welfare office in Limerick are expected to go to Dell in the coming months to give a briefing session to workers about applying for welfare payments.
The CIS is available to answer questions about entitlements or supplements beyond these payments.
"First of all, workers should work out what their redundancy is going to be and they should work out what they are going to spend their money on.
"A lot of people will have mortgage worries and debt they are trying to manage and there may be other options available to them that we would be there to deal with – everything from Carers Allowance, Family Income Supplement Payments, Medical and Doctor-only cards, drug subsidisations schemes – we would be available to answer those sort of complicated questions which social welfare may not have the time to answer," said MS Browne.
She explained that the CIS provided a free solicitor and financial service every Wednesday night to help people with legal problems and advice on mortgage issues. She expects an increase in enquiries from people after the devastating news, but urged people to seek the advice available to them, rather than to wonder what they might be entitled to.
"The first lot of people are leaving Dell around April, so I suppose between now and next week the situation will dawn on people and they will start thinking about where they go from here.
"It is now a reality, so people should sit and think, and if they have any questions that they want answered then we are here to help them," she said.
The Citizens Information Service is at 54, Catherine Street, and is open Monday to Friday from 9.30am to 4.30pm. For more information, phone 061-311444.
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