New social welfare scheme promises 'breathing space' for unemployed artists
Unemployed artists will be able to receive jobseekers allowance while also focusing on their own work for 12 months.
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Unemployed artists will be able to receive jobseekers allowance while also focusing on their own work for 12 months.
Patricia Sweeney had forged declaration of unemployment forms in order to carry out the fraud.
I don’t want a free ride. I want the Department of Social Protection to assist me.
As of 30 September, the average waiting time to receive a carer’s allowance was about nine months.
Young jobseekers will get an increase of €2.70 to their payment per week next year.
In the Dáil last week, Leo Varadkar asked TheJournal.ie for a fact check. We accepted that request.
The Department of Social Protection said processing times vary for different payments, depending on the qualification criteria.
Young adults are currently paid a lower rate of jobseeker’s allowance.
The Tánaiste said it was deemed that the man was ‘not genuinely seeking work’.
Minister Kevin Humphreys is reminding those on Jobseekers payments that seasonal work of up to eight weeks can be taken.
The government has launched its latest Pathways to Work document today.
A circular issued to social welfare staff advises them to reject applications for jobseeker’s payments.
Overall, the number of people on the Live Register decreased by 4,400 in June.
Somebody told me the other day, quite abruptly, that ‘there are plenty of jobs out there’. Well, I beg to differ.
The average processing time of an appeal is six months.
The spend in 2014 is expected to be close to half of what it was in 2011.
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.
The bill now goes to the Seanad the week after next.
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.
New powers and investigative techniques have led to the apprehension of 101 welfare tourists at airports since last June.
The Department of Social Protection has blamed a “once off processing issue” for the delay with some payments today. They will be paid tomorrow.
Leaked bailout documents reveal new Department of Social Protection plans to get longstanding jobseekers back to work.
The number of people aged 25 or under on the live register dropped for the 29th month in a row.
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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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.
The committee heard from the Self Employed Alliance Dundalk who said there has been “unjust, unwarranted discrimination” against self-employed people.
Ireland’s unemployment rate remains unchanged, while the number of under-25s on the register is down yet again.
The European Commission says it’s disappointed that a draft document – raising the heat on Dublin – has been leaked.
More than half of households are now struggling to pay basic bills, according to new figures from the Irish League of Credit Unions.
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.
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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Ireland’s rate of unemployment now stands at 14.6 per cent, down 0.1 from last month, with 439,200 signing on.
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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