# jobseekers-allowance - Tuesday 16 November, 2021
# PUP
# PUP
From today, the €250 PUP rate will reduce to €203 per week.
# jobseekers-allowance - Monday 15 November, 2021
# Jobseeker's Benefit
ICTU general secretary says higher PUP rate highlight paltry nature of Jobseeker's Benefit, Ian Curran writes. Calls to move to European-style system, where welfare benefits are based on a percentage of past earnings. Irish flat-rate system dates back to period before independence.
# jobseekers-allowance - Tuesday 12 October, 2021
# Welfare
This will bring the full State pension to €253.30 per week. A €5 increase to the Fuel Allowance comes into effect from midnight. The Living Alone Allowance will also increase by €3 per week.
# jobseekers-allowance - Friday 5 July, 2019
# Draw The Dole
# Draw The Dole
Unemployed artists will be able to receive jobseekers allowance while also focusing on their own work for 12 months.
# jobseekers-allowance - Friday 30 June, 2017
# Circuit Criminal Court
# Circuit Criminal Court
Patricia Sweeney had forged declaration of unemployment forms in order to carry out the fraud.
# jobseekers-allowance - Sunday 27 November, 2016
# Youth Unemployment
# Youth Unemployment
I don’t want a free ride. I want the Department of Social Protection to assist me.
# jobseekers-allowance - Tuesday 1 November, 2016
# Social Protection
# Social Protection
As of 30 September, the average waiting time to receive a carer’s allowance was about nine months.
# jobseekers-allowance - Tuesday 11 October, 2016
# Young And Broke
# Young And Broke
Young jobseekers will get an increase of €2.70 to their payment per week next year.
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
In the Dáil last week, Leo Varadkar asked TheJournal.ie for a fact check. We accepted that request.
# jobseekers-allowance - Sunday 22 May, 2016
# Social Welfare
# Social Welfare
The Department of Social Protection said processing times vary for different payments, depending on the qualification criteria.
# jobseekers-allowance - Monday 23 November, 2015
# Show Me The Money
# Show Me The Money
Young adults are currently paid a lower rate of jobseeker’s allowance.
# Didn't Happen
# Didn't Happen
The Tánaiste said it was deemed that the man was ‘not genuinely seeking work’.
# jobseekers-allowance - Friday 7 November, 2014
# Seasonal Jobs
# Seasonal Jobs
Minister Kevin Humphreys is reminding those on Jobseekers payments that seasonal work of up to eight weeks can be taken.
# jobseekers-allowance - Tuesday 7 October, 2014
# Employment
# Employment
The government has launched its latest Pathways to Work document today.
# jobseekers-allowance - Saturday 19 July, 2014
# Industrial Dispute
# Industrial Dispute
A circular issued to social welfare staff advises them to reject applications for jobseeker’s payments.
# jobseekers-allowance - Wednesday 2 July, 2014
# Live Register
# Live Register
Overall, the number of people on the Live Register decreased by 4,400 in June.
# jobseekers-allowance - Sunday 22 June, 2014
# Looking For Work
# Looking For Work
Somebody told me the other day, quite abruptly, that ‘there are plenty of jobs out there’. Well, I beg to differ.
# jobseekers-allowance - Monday 16 June, 2014
# Sit Tight
# Sit Tight
The average processing time of an appeal is six months.
# jobseekers-allowance - Sunday 23 February, 2014
# Social Protection
# Social Protection
The spend in 2014 is expected to be close to half of what it was in 2011.
# jobseekers-allowance - Saturday 2 November, 2013
# Jobseekers Allowance
# Jobseekers Allowance
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.
# jobseekers-allowance - Friday 25 October, 2013
# Budget 2014
# Budget 2014
The bill now goes to the Seanad the week after next.
# jobseekers-allowance - Thursday 17 October, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
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.
# jobseekers-allowance - Tuesday 8 October, 2013
# Welfare Tourism
# Welfare Tourism
New powers and investigative techniques have led to the apprehension of 101 welfare tourists at airports since last June.
# jobseekers-allowance - Tuesday 16 July, 2013
# Error
# Error
The Department of Social Protection has blamed a “once off processing issue” for the delay with some payments today. They will be paid tomorrow.
# jobseekers-allowance - Friday 11 January, 2013
# Euroleaks
# Euroleaks
Leaked bailout documents reveal new Department of Social Protection plans to get longstanding jobseekers back to work.
# jobseekers-allowance - Friday 4 January, 2013
# Unemployment
# Unemployment
The number of people aged 25 or under on the live register dropped for the 29th month in a row.
# jobseekers-allowance - Saturday 29 December, 2012
# Social Welfare
# Social Welfare
The rollout of a new Public Services Card will mean new technology to ensure claimants are who they claim to be.
# jobseekers-allowance - Tuesday 4 December, 2012
# Budget 2013
# Budget 2013
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.
# jobseekers-allowance - Monday 19 November, 2012
# Christmas
# Christmas
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.
# jobseekers-allowance - Wednesday 3 October, 2012
# Welfare
# Welfare
The committee heard from the Self Employed Alliance Dundalk who said there has been “unjust, unwarranted discrimination” against self-employed people.
# jobseekers-allowance - Wednesday 5 September, 2012
# Unemployment
# Unemployment
Ireland’s unemployment rate remains unchanged, while the number of under-25s on the register is down yet again.
# jobseekers-allowance - Wednesday 29 August, 2012
# Bailout
# Bailout
The European Commission says it’s disappointed that a draft document – raising the heat on Dublin – has been leaked.
# jobseekers-allowance - Monday 9 January, 2012
# Hard Up
# Hard Up
More than half of households are now struggling to pay basic bills, according to new figures from the Irish League of Credit Unions.
# jobseekers-allowance - Sunday 2 October, 2011
# Social Welfare
# Social Welfare
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.
# jobseekers-allowance - Monday 18 July, 2011
# jobseekers-allowance - Wednesday 1 June, 2011
# Unemployment
# Unemployment
Figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the numbers signing on jumped by 2,600 in the month of May.
# jobseekers-allowance - Thursday 26 May, 2011
# jobseekers-allowance - Thursday 5 May, 2011
# Live Register
# Live Register
Ireland’s rate of unemployment now stands at 14.6 per cent, down 0.1 from last month, with 439,200 signing on.
# jobseekers-allowance - Wednesday 30 March, 2011
# Live Register
# Live Register
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.
# jobseekers-allowance - Monday 15 November, 2010
Chilly with more clouds than sun
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Min: 4 °C
A few a.m. showers, then a little rain
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