# benefits - Friday 7 September, 2018
Yonatan Eyob claimed £500 after complaining his hotel food caused him to put on weight and outgrow his clothes.
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# benefits - Wednesday 21 February, 2018
Regina Doherty said there’d been a fourfold increase in the number of claims for free treatment benefits.
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# benefits - Sunday 11 February, 2018
The Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) has declined to provide an estimate as to when the ACS, originally slated for September 2017, will be able to officially launch.
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# benefits - Monday 7 August, 2017
Details of complaints were released to TheJournal.ie under the Freedom of Information Act.
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# benefits - Sunday 18 June, 2017
Nearly 20,000 people reported suspicious behaviour last year.
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# benefits - Tuesday 2 May, 2017
Leo Varadkar said that the results of the survey carried out by his department would inform Budget 2018.
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# benefits - Thursday 22 December, 2016
The Department of Social Protection received over 20,000 reports of welfare fraud from members of the public up to the end of November.
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# benefits - Tuesday 13 December, 2016
Critics say the current rules are an incentive for so-called benefits tourism.
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# benefits - Wednesday 5 October, 2016
A recent report compared and measured the experience of youth across OECD member states.
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# benefits - Saturday 20 August, 2016
Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar wants to know what benefits self-employed workers want.
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# benefits - Monday 8 August, 2016
However, the head of ISME says the government needs to show some leadership on the issue.
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# benefits - Thursday 17 December, 2015
“Without St. Vincent de Paul I would still be living in a cold house and be going without food.”
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# benefits - Tuesday 18 August, 2015
The internet can be nice. Sometimes.
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# benefits - Tuesday 16 June, 2015
The ESRI research found that eight out of 10 jobseekers would earn 40% more by finding work than staying on benefits.
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# benefits - Monday 13 April, 2015
Under current Australian laws, parents who have “conscientious objections” about jabs can still claim payments.
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# benefits - Thursday 19 March, 2015
Doctors have said the plan may actually cost money, not save it.
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# benefits - Thursday 15 January, 2015
Everything you need to know in one quick guided tour.
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# benefits - Monday 5 January, 2015
Scribblers Cards has done some hasty backtracking.
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# benefits - Sunday 7 December, 2014
Which cut would be more beneficial for you?
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# benefits - Tuesday 18 November, 2014
One of the reasons for their popularity amongst weightlifters is because it helps you overcome the dreaded plateau in your training.
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# benefits - Wednesday 12 November, 2014
The European Court of Justice said that Germany did not have to give a Romanian man benefits.
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# benefits - Wednesday 22 October, 2014
Warning: there is absolutely no coffee in this diet.
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# benefits - Friday 5 September, 2014
You can’t lose weight and stay fit simply by removing fat from your diet. But you can give your body fats that are more beneficial to your health.
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# benefits - Thursday 8 May, 2014
The mortality rate was higher for boys than for girls, irrespective of the type of vaccine last offered.
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# benefits - Saturday 21 December, 2013
Figures from the Department of Social Protection revealed more than 23,000 appeals were lodged in the first ten months of this year.
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# benefits - Sunday 4 August, 2013
There are SO many benefits to advancing years. But, sssh, don’t tell the whipper snappers.
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# benefits - Sunday 28 April, 2013
Free bus travel, free television licences, heating bill payments – one Conservative minister in Britain has suggested rich pensioners may not need them all.
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# benefits - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
John Martin, who was behind the major OECD study published into Ireland’s pensions timebomb, says private pensions need to start sending regular letters out to people. Here’s why.
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# benefits - Wednesday 27 March, 2013
83-year-old Edith Windsor was ordered to pay federal inheritance taxes of $363,000 following the 2009 death of Thea Spyer, her partner of more than 40 years.
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# benefits - Thursday 31 January, 2013
Minister Joan Burton said that Deputy Boyd Barrett’s “notion that social welfare illness payments and benefits are being denied to people is very, very wide of the mark”.
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# benefits - Friday 21 December, 2012
If someone is claiming benefits, should the government be allowed to monitor their online job searches on an official website?
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The website allows unemployed users to upload a CV to be matched to suitable job openings.
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# benefits - Thursday 20 December, 2012
Crowds gathered today to protest against job and benefit cuts as well as the tax increases passed today.
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# benefits - 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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# benefits - Sunday 11 November, 2012
Alan Dukes of IBRC told Minister Michael Noonan that staff pay cuts at the bank were not pursued partly because of the difficulty in retaining and attracting staff.
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# benefits - Tuesday 28 August, 2012
The Department of Social Protection recently introduced a measure to allow payments to be reduced by up to €44 a week for those refusing to take up job interviews, training, or employment offers.
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# benefits - Wednesday 22 August, 2012
Fears over ceding our sovereignty are misplaced – people do it all the time, writes Ronan Lyons. Here’s what we should be focusing on instead.
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# benefits - Saturday 18 August, 2012
This idea is a cover for the Government’s ineptitude, writes Aaron McKenna. Have we forgotten the point of social welfare?
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# benefits - Tuesday 14 August, 2012
Reports today suggest that wealthy parents may be given the option to return the €140 monthly payment. Good idea? Bad idea?
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# benefits - Monday 9 July, 2012
…So why is the Department of Finance dragging its heels on figuring out that this policy would be cash-positive for the State, asks independent TD Stephen Donnelly.
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