# Dole

All time

# Storm Emma

Welfare payments due on Friday will now be paid tomorrow

The fuel allowance payment was also doubled for this week.

24.3k

Feb 28th 2018, 9:53 PM

# beyond 65

Retirement age for public service workers to increase to 70

A number of parties, including Fianna Fail, have called for people to be allowed to work beyond 65 if they so choose.

67.6k

Dec 5th 2017, 9:18 PM

# Fine Gael conference

Leo wants to link dole payments to a person's PRSI contributions

The Taoiseach plans to set up a Gender Equality Commission.

48.1k

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Nov 11th 2017, 6:45 AM

# sonas bathrooms

'Losing my job was hard, but making people redundant was worse'

As part of Fora’s How My Business Works series, it profiles Sonas Bathrooms.

21.2k

Aug 7th 2017, 10:30 AM

# Unemployment

Ireland has the highest rate of young people receiving benefits across 35 countries

A recent report compared and measured the experience of youth across OECD member states.

21.6k

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Oct 5th 2016, 8:51 PM

# Jobseeker's Benefit

Varadkar plans to raise dole payments depending on how long you've worked

The INOU has welcomed the plan, which the Department of Social Protection told TheJournal.ie is under consideration.

22.2k

Jul 25th 2016, 11:32 AM

# Cash Money

Fine Gael wants to increase the dole by €27*

*But the payment will be scaled back the longer a person is out of work.

26.8k

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Feb 16th 2016, 2:38 PM

Voices

'I'm angry, depressed and very, very broke. This is my life on zero hours'

It’s election-time and all I have to my name is my vote, writes an anonymous contributor.

2.3k

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Feb 14th 2016, 8:00 AM

# Unemployment

There has been another drop in the number of people on the live register

The number of people signing on in December was 34,496 fewer than in the same month in 2014.

14.5k

112

Jan 7th 2016, 1:24 PM

# Show Me The Money

Under 26 and on the dole? Labour has some good news for you - sort of

Young adults are currently paid a lower rate of jobseeker’s allowance.

34.6k

Nov 23rd 2015, 6:00 PM

# Dole Life

What is life really like on the dole?

A new RTÉ show aims to find out.

39.0k

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Nov 1st 2015, 8:45 AM

# promises

People on the dole to see 50% increase in their Christmas bonus this year

The bonus is paid to long-term welfare claimants such as jobseekers, pensioners, carers, lone-parents and those with a disability.

40.2k

138

Sep 14th 2015, 9:31 AM

# Buskers

These Drogheda lads' song about being on the dole is your unlikely summer jam

ALL THE BOYS ON THE FÁS COURSE! ALL THE BOYS ON THE DOLE!

4.9k

Aug 25th 2015, 1:29 PM

# Dole

Gardaí are being used to interview social welfare claimants

The move has been described as an “absolute disgrace” by one politician.

49.1k

146

Aug 21st 2015, 6:02 AM

# Courts

Social welfare fraudster caught by facial recognition software is jailed

The man has led a ‘sad life’ the court heard.

24.4k

Jul 8th 2015, 7:30 PM

# parliamentary language

Joan slams social welfare fraudsters for 'giving two fingers to their neighbours'

Tens of millions of euro are overpaid each year.

25.8k

138

Jun 24th 2015, 8:30 PM

# Suspicious

Talk to Joan: 400 calls about dole and welfare fraud EVERY WEEK

Over 4,000 case investigations were carried out by the Department’s Special Investigation Unit.

16.7k

May 26th 2015, 9:33 AM

# Bills Bills Bills

Water charges will be taken from wages after people are given "every opportunity" - Minister

Minister of State Gerald Nash said the government discussed the proposals this week.

29.0k

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May 10th 2015, 1:24 PM

# unemployed help

Young man takes on social welfare for 'age discrimination' over reduced dole

By-election candidate Adrienne Wallace says there would be outrage if ‘women or black people had to accept a lower rate’.

72.0k

166

Apr 24th 2015, 6:05 AM

# doley cow

Could the self-employed be about to get equality on social welfare?

The next budget is gearing up to be pretty generous one. It’s the latest in the pre-election extravaganza…

21.7k

Mar 26th 2015, 2:30 PM

# seasonal jobs

Signing off for Christmas work? Your dole will be restored 'immediately' afterwards

Minister Kevin Humphreys is reminding those on Jobseekers payments that seasonal work of up to eight weeks can be taken.

14.9k

Nov 7th 2014, 4:19 PM

# Social Welfare

Life on the dole - a dark and humorous diary

Tobias Kirkner arrived back to Ireland and thought it would be easy to ‘get on the dole’… he was wrong.

43.3k

Aug 9th 2014, 8:30 PM

# DSP

Over €200m worth of unclaimed social welfare payments in past three years

No, you can’t have them. There were all returned to the Department.

17.8k

Jul 21st 2014, 7:15 AM

# Jobseekers

'No evidence' that disproportionately high number of migrants receive social welfare

A new study has found that the number in receipt of these payments are just a little or below the number in the work force.

10.8k

Jul 17th 2014, 7:15 AM

# Live Register

Almost 3,000 extra young people were signing on last month

Overall, the number of people on the Live Register decreased by 4,400 in June.

10.3k

Jul 2nd 2014, 1:17 PM

# Welfare

A TD used a Dáil question to ask if a water meter protester would have their dole cut

Terence Flanagan used a case involving one of his own constituents to ask if the Department of Social Protection cuts the dole of anti-government protestors.

49.7k

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Jun 28th 2014, 8:50 AM

Voices

Opinion: Yes, I'm unemployed but that doesn't make me lazy or incompetent

Somebody told me the other day, quite abruptly, that ‘there are plenty of jobs out there’. Well, I beg to differ.

2.2k

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Jun 22nd 2014, 12:00 PM

# signing off

In cases where work pays less than the dole ... 7 out of 10 people choose work

Think tank the ESRI has found that for those who, on a “snapshot” basis, would be “better off on the dole” tend to choose employment instead.

13.0k

Jun 11th 2014, 6:30 AM

# Signing on

Live Register: Far more men than women are dropping their claims

There was a 1,600 decrease in the Live Register figures, once seasonally adjusted.

7.5k

Jun 5th 2014, 12:18 PM

# Dole

Government unsure if paying social welfare electronically will save money

This is due to the scale of anti-fraud measures that must be developed.

12.4k

May 4th 2014, 8:00 AM

# Jobseekers

Taoiseach warns of risk of 'welfare dependency' despite falling unemployment

An Taoiseach made the comments as Live Register declined for the 22nd consecutive month.

9.8k

Apr 30th 2014, 3:48 PM

# Live Register

Unemployment rate falls again to 11.7 per cent

It represents the 22nd month in a row that the number of claimants on the Live Register has fallen.

7.5k

Apr 30th 2014, 11:46 AM

# Slave Labour

Bruton on Gateway: 'Calling councils slave sweat shops is a total insult'

Sinn Féin’s Aengus Ó Snodaigh said the Gateway scheme is there to provide chronically underfunded local authorities with cheap general dogsbodies.

10.0k

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Mar 11th 2014, 10:10 PM

# Jobswatch

Another drop in Live Register numbers, unemployment at 12.3 per cent

Some good news for the Government this morning.

6.7k

Feb 5th 2014, 11:18 AM

# carnegie library

James Reilly backs protest against turning his local library into a dole office

Officials from the OPW and Social Protection Department are now to look for an alternative solution.

9.9k

Jan 27th 2014, 3:00 PM

# Unemployment

Irish man considers joining British army to pull family out of poverty

The 25-year-old father of two said he was told he would be expected to spend six months in Afghanistan if he enlisted.

37.8k

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Oct 28th 2013, 8:15 AM

Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…

9.6k

Oct 21st 2013, 4:54 PM

Voices

Column: Cutting unemployment benefit to the under-26s is unjust and unacceptable

The plan is a further step towards the political disillusionment of young people, a drastic slash in living standards, and an even more polarised society, write Dan O’Neill and Fiona Dunkin.

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Oct 15th 2013, 7:30 PM