# department-of-social-protection - Monday 21 January, 2019
Three million Irish citizens could be entitled to compensation if the project is found to be unlawful, writes Simon McGarr.
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# department-of-social-protection - Thursday 17 January, 2019
Private companies operating JobPath get over €3k for every jobseeker that makes it through the scheme
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# department-of-social-protection - Saturday 29 December, 2018
Minister Regina Doherty said a number of measures are taken to try to recover the monies owed.
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# department-of-social-protection - Sunday 9 December, 2018
A number of workers have been unsuccessful in cases at the Workplace Relations Commission arguing their right to a permanent contract.
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# department-of-social-protection - Monday 3 December, 2018
The secretary general of the department said 3,000 staff members are over 55.
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# department-of-social-protection - Monday 5 November, 2018
51,409 fathers have been awarded leave since the scheme began.
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# department-of-social-protection - Friday 2 November, 2018
People began to complain of delays in Illness Benefit payments back in August.
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# department-of-social-protection - Thursday 18 October, 2018
Howlin said calls to the Social Protection helpline have been going unanswered.
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# department-of-social-protection - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
Customers with An Post, Ulster Bank and PTSB have been affected.
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# department-of-social-protection - Wednesday 12 September, 2018
The department has pinpointed 28 cases in this year alone.
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# department-of-social-protection - Tuesday 28 August, 2018
The Department of Social Protection has accused GPs of delaying the payouts of illness benefits.
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# department-of-social-protection - Thursday 26 July, 2018
No arrests were made in relation to the seizure.
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# department-of-social-protection - Monday 25 June, 2018
Plain English is a way of presenting information that helps people understand it the first time they read or hear it.
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# department-of-social-protection - Wednesday 28 March, 2018
The Public Accounts Committee also raised concerns about the use of “fraud” in department material.
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# department-of-social-protection - Wednesday 21 March, 2018
Michelle Burke married her current partner on the Las Vegas strip during a 30th birthday celebration in 2010.
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# department-of-social-protection - Saturday 3 March, 2018
Up to last year, if a patient qualified under their spouse or partner’s benefit, they simply had to sign a form at the clinic.
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# department-of-social-protection - Tuesday 20 February, 2018
He was denied a PSC as a result of having an expired passport due to Venezuela’s printing shortage crisis.
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# department-of-social-protection - Friday 26 January, 2018
Rory Lenihan had pleaded guilty to twelve sample charges of receiving payments for information.
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# department-of-social-protection - Sunday 26 November, 2017
The Department of Social Protection says its rules on the exceptional needs payment has not changed, despite protestations from others.
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# department-of-social-protection - Wednesday 8 November, 2017
“We have to take a wider societal view and not think of rearing children as something best done in one’s spare time, preferably by women,” Deirdre Clune said.
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# department-of-social-protection - Friday 1 September, 2017
A number of functions from the Department of Jobs will transfer to the new Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection.
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# department-of-social-protection - Saturday 26 August, 2017
The card has been under the spotlight recently after a number of stories of people losing out on public services.
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# department-of-social-protection - Thursday 24 August, 2017
Dublin woman Carol Brady says the decision on whether or not to get a card is not one her son should have been expected to make.
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# department-of-social-protection - Monday 7 August, 2017
Details of complaints were released to TheJournal.ie under the Freedom of Information Act.
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# department-of-social-protection - Sunday 18 June, 2017
No. No it didn’t.
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# department-of-social-protection - Wednesday 31 May, 2017
The incident was included as a case study in the Office of the Ombudsman’s annual report for 2016.
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# department-of-social-protection - Sunday 14 May, 2017
The Department of Social Protection has apologised for the ‘unacceptable’ delay being seen in the delivery of maternity benefits.
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# department-of-social-protection - Monday 24 April, 2017
A Department of Social Protection official has said “it is not possible to give an accurate date” for the process of backlogged maternity claims.
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# department-of-social-protection - Tuesday 18 April, 2017
It’s estimated that last year suspected fraud overpayments of Jobseeker’s Allowance cost €14 million.
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# department-of-social-protection - Monday 5 December, 2016
Our welfare regime treats jobseekers harshly and pushes them into precarious work, write Tom Boland and Ray Griffin.
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# department-of-social-protection - Monday 28 November, 2016
This year’s bonus will be 85% of a welfare recipient’s weekly payment.
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# department-of-social-protection - Saturday 6 August, 2016
The Department of Social Protection told TheJournal.ie that the Family Income Supplement, which Erica Fleming receives, is not a qualifying payment for the BTEA.
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# department-of-social-protection - Tuesday 19 July, 2016
One TD has described the figures as a disturbing barometer of child poverty levels.
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# department-of-social-protection - Wednesday 11 May, 2016
A section of the draft programme for government includes a section proposing this.
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# department-of-social-protection - Sunday 24 April, 2016
The Department of Social Protection says the scheme is being reviewed.
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# department-of-social-protection - Saturday 23 April, 2016
A union representing workers in Intreo offices said these employees need greater protection.
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# department-of-social-protection - Friday 22 April, 2016
Nearly 360 fraud cases were submitted for prosecution in 2015.
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Paramedics and staff helped the woman with the birth.
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# department-of-social-protection - Thursday 28 January, 2016
The management company said it installed the railings in response to anti-social behaviour.
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# department-of-social-protection - Wednesday 16 December, 2015
The letters were delivered in Oireachtas envelopes and headed paper.
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