# jobseekers-benefit - Friday 28 June, 2019
Self-employed people will be able to access €203 a week if they’re out of work.
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# jobseekers-benefit - Wednesday 4 October, 2017
One of the Budget talking points will be how our social welfare benefits compare to our EU counterparts.
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# jobseekers-benefit - 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-benefit - Tuesday 11 October, 2016
In the Dáil last week, Leo Varadkar asked TheJournal.ie for a fact check. We accepted that request.
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# jobseekers-benefit - Monday 25 July, 2016
The INOU has welcomed the plan, which the Department of Social Protection told TheJournal.ie is under consideration.
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# jobseekers-benefit - Monday 23 November, 2015
Young adults are currently paid a lower rate of jobseeker’s allowance.
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# jobseekers-benefit - Friday 9 January, 2015
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.”
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# jobseekers-benefit - 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-benefit - Wednesday 2 July, 2014
Overall, the number of people on the Live Register decreased by 4,400 in June.
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# jobseekers-benefit - Monday 16 June, 2014
The average processing time of an appeal is six months.
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# jobseekers-benefit - 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-benefit - 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-benefit - Friday 8 March, 2013
Jobseeker’s benefit was the only payment that had a lower rate of suspected fraud than departmental error.
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# jobseekers-benefit - 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-benefit - 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-benefit - Tuesday 11 December, 2012
The Social Welfare Bill, which gives legal effect to cuts to the respite care grant and other changes, will be debated this week.
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# jobseekers-benefit - Wednesday 5 December, 2012
# jobseekers-benefit - 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-benefit - 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-benefit - 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-benefit - Saturday 16 June, 2012
The economic think-tank has revised the findings from a controversial working paper which it pulled earlier this week.
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# jobseekers-benefit - Monday 28 May, 2012
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.
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# jobseekers-benefit - Monday 6 February, 2012
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.
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# jobseekers-benefit - Tuesday 24 January, 2012
The new system aims to reduce long-term unemployment – and penalise people who refuse work or training.
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# jobseekers-benefit - Tuesday 6 December, 2011
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.
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# jobseekers-benefit - Tuesday 22 November, 2011
The CAB handed more than €7million to the Exchequer last year, amid suggestions its methods could be rolled out across Europe.
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# jobseekers-benefit - Monday 18 July, 2011
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# jobseekers-benefit - 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-benefit - 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-benefit - 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-benefit - Thursday 6 January, 2011
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