# welfare - Monday 29 April, 2013
Roisín Shorthall says that if the State was to be reimbursed by insurers for welfare payments taken out while people are injured and claim welfare, they could save millions.
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# welfare - Saturday 27 April, 2013
The only way to ensure the long-term prosperity of our retirees without burdening our children with unfair taxes is to create a state-backed – rather than entirely state funded – pension system that is means tested, writes Aaron McKenna.
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# welfare - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
The petition was set up to challenge Iain Duncan Smith to prove that he would be able to survive on benefits.
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# welfare - Friday 1 March, 2013
The CSO report said that the decline in employment activity for foreign nationals has not resulted in a corresponding increase in social welfare activity.
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# welfare - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
The Minister for Social Protection said that without welfare payment, “millions of families across the EU would literally be left with nothing”.
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# welfare - Tuesday 11 December, 2012
The percentage of households where adults are not working has grown from 15 per cent to 22 per cent in just three years.
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# welfare - Wednesday 21 November, 2012
A father-of-three from Carlow shares his story with TheJournal.ie.
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# welfare - Wednesday 3 October, 2012
The committee heard from the Self Employed Alliance Dundalk who said there has been “unjust, unwarranted discrimination” against self-employed people.
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# welfare - Monday 1 October, 2012
A so-called “two tier” child benefit system, recommended by an advisory group to the Social Protection Minister, would see child benefit payments cut to about €100 per month.
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# welfare - Tuesday 7 August, 2012
The Minister noted a surge in applications for disability allowance, but denied any changes in criteria or conditions.
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# welfare - Friday 27 July, 2012
Cuts to rent supplement are forcing people to make impossible choices, writes Bob Jordan of Threshold.
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# welfare - Friday 20 July, 2012
The Minister for Social Protection has published two reports detailing work undertaken by her Department in 2011.
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# welfare - Thursday 19 July, 2012
The IMF has suggested that the universal payment could be means-tested to save money. What do you think?
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# welfare - Saturday 7 July, 2012
It’s not news that some benefits are spent on alcohol, writes Aaron McKenna. Time for a simple change to the system.
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# welfare - Monday 2 July, 2012
The bank is still struggling to clear a backlog of payments.
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# welfare - Sunday 17 June, 2012
Shane McEntee’s suggestion that young people shouldn’t get welfare unless they join a work scheme has been labelled “hypocritical” by a youth group.
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However, the costs fall dramatically as children grow older and begin school.
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# welfare - Saturday 16 June, 2012
The economic think-tank has revised the findings from a controversial working paper which it pulled earlier this week.
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# welfare - Wednesday 13 June, 2012
Are economists better placed than psychologists to explain why people go to work? Nat O’Connor looks at the controversial ESRI working paper.
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# welfare - Sunday 10 June, 2012
The Department of Social Protection has been cracking down on the number of prisoners who claim social welfare benefits while in jail.
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# welfare - Monday 28 May, 2012
Paying rich and poor alike might sound counter-intuitive – but it could lay the foundation for a welfare system that works, writes Anne B Ryan.
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# welfare - Wednesday 9 May, 2012
The Public Services Card will include facial imaging software to help detect and prevent welfare fraud. What else do we know about this new ID card?
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# welfare - Thursday 5 April, 2012
Welfare fraud inspectors will be deployed to all entry and exit points to the country.
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# welfare - Thursday 22 March, 2012
Members of the public are being asked for their opinions on the proposed new national standards, which are for the protection and welfare of children in Ireland.
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# welfare - Wednesday 14 March, 2012
As benefits for the most vulnerable are cut, our system throws money at others who don’t need it, writes Aaron McKenna.
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# welfare - Friday 9 March, 2012
Has Joan Burton kept the government’s promises of reversing cuts while keeping all baseline social welfare rates unchanged?
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# welfare - Tuesday 21 February, 2012
The funds we’re currently spending on make-work training programmes should be handed directly to unemployed people, writes Aaron McKenna.
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# welfare - Thursday 16 February, 2012
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# welfare - Monday 6 February, 2012
A report being launched today highlights the difficulties of those in receipt of jobseeker’s benefit who do not have enough to meet their physical, psychological, spiritual and social needs.
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# welfare - Tuesday 24 January, 2012
The new system aims to reduce long-term unemployment – and penalise people who refuse work or training.
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# welfare - Tuesday 10 January, 2012
The expansion of the list of state-recognised disability categories to include paedophiles, kleptomaniacs and sadomasochists has concerned disability groups in Greece.
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# welfare - Wednesday 7 December, 2011
The VAT increase, the Household Charge, cigarettes and alcohol – get all of the main points of Budget 2012 in two rather nifty infographics.
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# welfare - Tuesday 6 December, 2011
Social welfare spending has to be cut in order to balance the budget – but we can still protect the most vulnerable, says Joan Burton, Minister for Social Protection.
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# welfare - Sunday 2 October, 2011
Figures put together by the Department of Social Protection show reveal how much a family of six on social welfare could receive in a year.
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# welfare - Tuesday 13 September, 2011
Nine things to know by 9am: Four in court over halting site slavery, Amnesty finds human rights abuses on both sides in Libya, and more pressure on Ryan Tubridy…
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The initiative could save the State €625 million by next year, and has already seen some people’s payments stopped.
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# welfare - Monday 5 September, 2011
Nine things you should know this morning…
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# welfare - Thursday 18 August, 2011
Nine things to know this morning…
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# welfare - Wednesday 10 August, 2011
Almost €200 million has been made available for the scheme, but the inability of applicants to apply for the student maintenance grant on top of the allowance is being criticised.
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# welfare - Monday 25 July, 2011
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
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