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# Department of Social welfare

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17,000 apply for emergency social welfare payments for food, fuel and clothing in July alone
Man who claimed his dead mother's pension for 17 years jailed
Column: ‘Getting a job is the worst thing that’s ever happened to us’
Catherine W