# prsi - Tuesday 8 June, 2021
# Unemployment Supports
# Unemployment Supports
The Short Term Work Support benefit is coming to a close for many in receipt of it, which will affect workers in industries impacted by Covid-19, particularly aviation.
# prsi - Monday 8 February, 2021
# Social Welfare
# Social Welfare
A person in receipt of this payment will not be required to be available for full-time work.
# prsi - Saturday 6 February, 2021
# Unemployment
# Unemployment
Varadkar said the phasing out of the PUP provides an opportunity to reform the country’s social welfare system.
# prsi - Sunday 30 June, 2019
# It's Complicated
# It's Complicated
Sinn Féin says the lack of follow-through in the amalgamation is just another broken promise by Fine Gael.
# prsi - Saturday 18 May, 2019
# Dental Plan
# Dental Plan
Half a million claims for dental scale and polish, free glasses and hearing aids have been made.
# prsi - Wednesday 15 May, 2019
# Privatisation
# Privatisation
The Irish Dental Association says policy will be ‘catastrophic’ for adults and children in lower income areas.
# prsi - Thursday 10 January, 2019
# Optical Inclusion
# Optical Inclusion
Over one million claims were made by employees paying PRSI social insurance a with over 190,000 claims made by self-employed people.
# prsi - Saturday 3 March, 2018
# Domestic Violence
# Domestic Violence
Up to last year, if a patient qualified under their spouse or partner’s benefit, they simply had to sign a form at the clinic.
# prsi - Wednesday 21 February, 2018
# Scale And Polish
# Scale And Polish
Regina Doherty said there’d been a fourfold increase in the number of claims for free treatment benefits.
# prsi - Thursday 18 January, 2018
# Marriage Bar
# Marriage Bar
Tens of thousands of people are losing out on receiving a full State pension due to rules that were introduced in 2012.
# prsi - Sunday 12 November, 2017
# Gender Equality
# Gender Equality
It’s understood this is one of the concrete
offerings in Fine Gael’s new ‘rolling manifesto’ It will focus on removing gender barriers from all aspects of Irish life.
# prsi - Wednesday 8 November, 2017
# Newborns
# Newborns
“We have to take a wider societal view and not think of rearing children as something best done in one’s spare time, preferably by women,” Deirdre Clune said.
# prsi - Saturday 28 October, 2017
# Dental Plan
# Dental Plan
From today, workers are entitled to a full scale and polish, and if necessary, protracted periodontal treatment.
# prsi - Thursday 6 July, 2017
# Taxing Issues
# Taxing Issues
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe yesterday announced plans to merge USC and PRSI .
# prsi - Tuesday 27 June, 2017
# Revenue
# Revenue
The firm behind Insights Consultants agreed a settlement with the tax man.
# prsi - Tuesday 2 May, 2017
# Looking Into It
# Looking Into It
Leo Varadkar said that the results of the survey carried out by his department would inform Budget 2018.
# prsi - Friday 3 March, 2017
# Newborns
# Newborns
The initiative allows fathers to take two weeks off work to help care for their babies, if they have enough PRSI contributions.
# prsi - Tuesday 11 October, 2016
# prsi - Tuesday 20 September, 2016
# Money In Your Pocket
# Money In Your Pocket
Workers here often pay more in tax than those in other European countries.
# prsi - Saturday 20 August, 2016
# Benefits
# Benefits
Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar wants to know what benefits self-employed workers want.
# prsi - Monday 8 August, 2016
# Benefits
# Benefits
However, the head of ISME says the government needs to show some leadership on the issue.
# prsi - Tuesday 26 July, 2016
# PRSI
# PRSI
Minister for Social Protection wants to offer either a PRSI cut or a state pension to councillors, as part of a wider reform.
# prsi - 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.
# prsi - Monday 9 November, 2015
# Breakdown
# Breakdown
The changes affect people on incomes from €352 to €424 a week.
# prsi - Monday 5 October, 2015
# Flat Tax
# Flat Tax
The party has proposed the introduction of a flat rate of 23% on all income.
# prsi - Tuesday 30 June, 2015
# A Lengthy List
# A Lengthy List
The Taoiseach’s comments about not increasing taxes have raised some eyebrows.
# prsi - Wednesday 24 June, 2015
# Parliamentary Language
# Parliamentary Language
Tens of millions of euro are overpaid each year.
# prsi - Friday 17 April, 2015
# Open Wide
# Open Wide
The IDA is calling on the Tánaiste to reinstate the PRSI dental scheme.
# prsi - Saturday 11 October, 2014
# Shinnernomics
# Shinnernomics
The opposition party has come under attack for its budget proposals this week.
# prsi - Thursday 9 October, 2014
# prsi - Tuesday 10 June, 2014
# prsi - Monday 26 May, 2014
# Back Taxes
# Back Taxes
The figures owed relate to alleged non-payment of PRSI , PAYE and VAT.
# prsi - Tuesday 4 February, 2014
# Pretty Penny
# Pretty Penny
The Government’s inaction on pensions begs the question of whether it has a long-term strategy for pensions at all, writes Samantha McConnell.
# prsi - Saturday 21 December, 2013
# Social Welfare
# Social Welfare
Figures from the Department of Social Protection revealed more than 23,000 appeals were lodged in the first ten months of this year.
# prsi - Friday 6 September, 2013
# Social Insurance
# Social Insurance
The proposed rise in Pay Related Social Insurance is being considered by Minister Joan Burton.
# prsi - Tuesday 1 January, 2013
# Budget 2013
# Budget 2013
Child benefit cuts, respite carer grant cuts and motor tax increases.
# prsi - Friday 28 December, 2012
# Jobswatch
# Jobswatch
The Small Firms Association makes optimistic prediction for 2013 – *but only if SMEs are “placed at the heart of economic policy”.
# prsi - Wednesday 12 December, 2012
# Social Welfare
# Social Welfare
The bill includes cuts to the Respite Care Grant and child benefit as well as an increase in PRSI contributions.
# prsi - 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.
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