# jobseekers-benefit - Friday 10 June, 2022
# Social Welfare
# Social Welfare
The Economic and Social Research Institute said the move would give rise to weaker financial work incentives unless capped or time-limited.
# jobseekers-benefit - Monday 7 February, 2022
# Social Protection
One man said he now has to drive over 55km to a post office in order to collect the payment, which brings his fuel cost to between €45 - €50 a week. Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys said that the return to post offices would help to support the network and tackle welfare fraud. A Social Democrats TD said the idea that people in receipt of social welfare are going to defraud the State "has been debunked on several occasions".
# jobseekers-benefit - 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-benefit - 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-benefit - Saturday 4 July, 2020
# Pricey Trip
# Pricey Trip
Claimants would not be able to claim for the duration of their holiday and two weeks afterwards.
# jobseekers-benefit - Friday 28 June, 2019
# Self-employed
# Self-employed
Self-employed people will be able to access €203 a week if they’re out of work.
# jobseekers-benefit - Wednesday 4 October, 2017
# Factfind
# Factfind
One of the Budget talking points will be how our social welfare benefits compare to our EU counterparts.
# jobseekers-benefit - 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-benefit - Tuesday 11 October, 2016
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
In the Dáil last week, Leo Varadkar asked TheJournal.ie for a fact check. We accepted that request.
# jobseekers-benefit - Monday 25 July, 2016
# Jobseeker's Benefit
# Jobseeker's Benefit
The INOU has welcomed the plan, which the Department of Social Protection told TheJournal.ie is under consideration.
# jobseekers-benefit - Monday 23 November, 2015
# Show Me The Money
# Show Me The Money
Young adults are currently paid a lower rate of jobseeker’s allowance.
# jobseekers-benefit - Friday 9 January, 2015
# Social Welfare
# Social Welfare
An open letter to the Minister for Social Protection: “I left that office embarrassed, angry, degraded, and a shadow of the educated, confident woman I am meant to be.”
# jobseekers-benefit - 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-benefit - Wednesday 2 July, 2014
# Live Register
# Live Register
Overall, the number of people on the Live Register decreased by 4,400 in June.
# jobseekers-benefit - Monday 16 June, 2014
# Sit Tight
# Sit Tight
The average processing time of an appeal is six months.
# jobseekers-benefit - 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-benefit - 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-benefit - Friday 8 March, 2013
# Social Welfare
# Social Welfare
Jobseeker’s benefit was the only payment that had a lower rate of suspected fraud than departmental error.
# jobseekers-benefit - Friday 11 January, 2013
# Euroleaks
# Euroleaks
Leaked bailout documents reveal new Department of Social Protection plans to get longstanding jobseekers back to work.
# jobseekers-benefit - 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-benefit - Tuesday 11 December, 2012
# Budget 2013
# Budget 2013
The Social Welfare Bill, which gives legal effect to cuts to the respite care grant and other changes, will be debated this week.
# jobseekers-benefit - Wednesday 5 December, 2012
# Social Protection
# Social Protection
On the day of Budget 2013, Joan Burton asks an Oireachtas committee to approve a 5.1 per cent increase for 2012.
# jobseekers-benefit - 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-benefit - 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-benefit - 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-benefit - Saturday 16 June, 2012
# Benefits
# Benefits
The economic think-tank has revised the findings from a controversial working paper which it pulled earlier this week.
# jobseekers-benefit - Monday 28 May, 2012
# Opinion
# Opinion
Paying rich and poor alike might sound counter-intuitive – but it could lay the foundation for a welfare system that works, writes Anne B Ryan.
# jobseekers-benefit - Monday 6 February, 2012
# Welfare
# Welfare
A report being launched today highlights the difficulties of those in receipt of jobseeker’s benefit who do not have enough to meet their physical, psychological, spiritual and social needs.
# jobseekers-benefit - Tuesday 24 January, 2012
# Welfare
# Welfare
The new system aims to reduce long-term unemployment – and penalise people who refuse work or training.
# jobseekers-benefit - Tuesday 6 December, 2011
# Budget 2012
# Budget 2012
The unemployed will not benefit from the changes to the way jobseeker’s payments are paid, the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed has said.
# jobseekers-benefit - Tuesday 22 November, 2011
# CAB
# CAB
The CAB handed more than €7million to the Exchequer last year, amid suggestions its methods could be rolled out across Europe.
# jobseekers-benefit - Monday 18 July, 2011
# jobseekers-benefit - 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-benefit - 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-benefit - 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-benefit - Thursday 6 January, 2011
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