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The Economic and Social Research Institute said the move would give rise to weaker financial work incentives unless capped or time-limited.
Claimants would not be able to claim for the duration of their holiday and two weeks afterwards.
Self-employed people will be able to access €203 a week if they’re out of work.
One of the Budget talking points will be how our social welfare benefits compare to our EU counterparts.
As of 30 September, the average waiting time to receive a carer’s allowance was about nine months.
In the Dáil last week, Leo Varadkar asked TheJournal.ie for a fact check. We accepted that request.
The INOU has welcomed the plan, which the Department of Social Protection told TheJournal.ie is under consideration.
Young adults are currently paid a lower rate of jobseeker’s allowance.
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.”
Minister Kevin Humphreys is reminding those on Jobseekers payments that seasonal work of up to eight weeks can be taken.
Overall, the number of people on the Live Register decreased by 4,400 in June.
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.
The Department of Social Protection has blamed a “once off processing issue” for the delay with some payments today. They will be paid tomorrow.
Jobseeker’s benefit was the only payment that had a lower rate of suspected fraud than departmental error.
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 Social Welfare Bill, which gives legal effect to cuts to the respite care grant and other changes, will be debated this week.
On the day of Budget 2013, Joan Burton asks an Oireachtas committee to approve a 5.1 per cent increase for 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.
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.
The economic think-tank has revised the findings from a controversial working paper which it pulled earlier this week.
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.
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.
The new system aims to reduce long-term unemployment – and penalise people who refuse work or training.
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.
The CAB handed more than €7million to the Exchequer last year, amid suggestions its methods could be rolled out across Europe.
Figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the numbers signing on jumped by 2,600 in the month of May.
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.