# jobseekers-allowance - Friday 5 July, 2019
Unemployed artists will be able to receive jobseekers allowance while also focusing on their own work for 12 months.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Friday 30 June, 2017
Patricia Sweeney had forged declaration of unemployment forms in order to carry out the fraud.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Sunday 27 November, 2016
I don’t want a free ride. I want the Department of Social Protection to assist me.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Tuesday 1 November, 2016
As of 30 September, the average waiting time to receive a carer’s allowance was about nine months.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Tuesday 11 October, 2016
Young jobseekers will get an increase of €2.70 to their payment per week next year.
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In the Dáil last week, Leo Varadkar asked TheJournal.ie for a fact check. We accepted that request.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Sunday 22 May, 2016
The Department of Social Protection said processing times vary for different payments, depending on the qualification criteria.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Monday 23 November, 2015
Young adults are currently paid a lower rate of jobseeker’s allowance.
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The Tánaiste said it was deemed that the man was ‘not genuinely seeking work’.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Friday 7 November, 2014
Minister Kevin Humphreys is reminding those on Jobseekers payments that seasonal work of up to eight weeks can be taken.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Tuesday 7 October, 2014
The government has launched its latest Pathways to Work document today.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Saturday 19 July, 2014
A circular issued to social welfare staff advises them to reject applications for jobseeker’s payments.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Wednesday 2 July, 2014
Overall, the number of people on the Live Register decreased by 4,400 in June.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Sunday 22 June, 2014
Somebody told me the other day, quite abruptly, that ‘there are plenty of jobs out there’. Well, I beg to differ.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Monday 16 June, 2014
The average processing time of an appeal is six months.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Sunday 23 February, 2014
The spend in 2014 is expected to be close to half of what it was in 2011.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Saturday 2 November, 2013
Young people are being urged to lobby three Labour senators to vote against a provision of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill in the Seanad next week but they will all support the measure.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Friday 25 October, 2013
The bill now goes to the Seanad the week after next.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Thursday 17 October, 2013
The cut in jobseeker’s allowance for those under 26 won’t nudge young people into “valuable training” in JobBridge or other schemes, it will push them into poverty and emigration, write Andrew Byrne and Dan Hayden.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Tuesday 8 October, 2013
New powers and investigative techniques have led to the apprehension of 101 welfare tourists at airports since last June.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Tuesday 16 July, 2013
The Department of Social Protection has blamed a “once off processing issue” for the delay with some payments today. They will be paid tomorrow.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Friday 11 January, 2013
Leaked bailout documents reveal new Department of Social Protection plans to get longstanding jobseekers back to work.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Friday 4 January, 2013
The number of people aged 25 or under on the live register dropped for the 29th month in a row.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Saturday 29 December, 2012
The rollout of a new Public Services Card will mean new technology to ensure claimants are who they claim to be.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Tuesday 4 December, 2012
We spoke to some readers about their hopes and fears ahead of tomorrow’s budget. Here’s what they had to say, in their own words.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Monday 19 November, 2012
Those who are unemployed are able to work or attend a training course for up to eight weeks without it impacting on their various allowances.
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# jobseekers-allowance - 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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# jobseekers-allowance - Wednesday 5 September, 2012
Ireland’s unemployment rate remains unchanged, while the number of under-25s on the register is down yet again.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Wednesday 29 August, 2012
The European Commission says it’s disappointed that a draft document – raising the heat on Dublin – has been leaked.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Monday 9 January, 2012
More than half of households are now struggling to pay basic bills, according to new figures from the Irish League of Credit Unions.
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# jobseekers-allowance - 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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# jobseekers-allowance - Monday 18 July, 2011
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock
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# jobseekers-allowance - Wednesday 1 June, 2011
Figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the numbers signing on jumped by 2,600 in the month of May.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Thursday 26 May, 2011
Nine things you need to know by 9am: OECD calls for dole to be cut; Sellafield to be stress-tested by the EU; and why Cheryl Cole was dropped from the US X Factor.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Thursday 5 May, 2011
Ireland’s rate of unemployment now stands at 14.6 per cent, down 0.1 from last month, with 439,200 signing on.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Wednesday 30 March, 2011
1,100 more people were signing on March, up by almost 11,000 on the same time last year but down on September’s peak.
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# jobseekers-allowance - Monday 15 November, 2010
Nine things you need to know by 9am: the bailout’s on (or maybe it’s not); Sarah Palin’s new reality show airs in the US – and do the unemployed really earn more than the average industrial wage?
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