# social-welfare - Tuesday 7 January, 2020
Pensioners and people with disabilities who are living alone are the main cohort of social welfare recipients to benefit.
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# social-welfare - Thursday 21 November, 2019
The cost of the Christmas bonus this year will be €279.4 million.
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# social-welfare - Wednesday 9 October, 2019
The INOU has said it is “very disappointing” there were no increases to Jobseekers’ payments.
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# social-welfare - Monday 16 September, 2019
The Department aims to save €530 million by tackling fraud over the next four years.
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# social-welfare - Thursday 5 September, 2019
The government is challenging the findings of a landmark report into the legality of the card.
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# social-welfare - Friday 26 July, 2019
Letters sent to his house in the Dublin 15 were redirected to his address outside the country.
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# social-welfare - Friday 5 July, 2019
Unemployed artists will be able to receive jobseekers allowance while also focusing on their own work for 12 months.
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The Budget for 2020 will be announced in October – weeks before the UK is due to leave the EU.
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# social-welfare - Wednesday 3 July, 2019
Pearse Doherty said Christmas comes every year, yet the bonus hasn’t been factored into spending.
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# social-welfare - 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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# social-welfare - Monday 17 June, 2019
The government is looking at two models to increase carbon tax and offset the cost to householders.
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# social-welfare - Tuesday 23 April, 2019
Details of the Parental Leave scheme were announced this morning.
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# social-welfare - Sunday 17 February, 2019
The woman’s adopted status is not well known and she was unaware she would have to discuss the topic in public.
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# social-welfare - Thursday 17 January, 2019
Private companies operating JobPath get over €3k for every jobseeker that makes it through the scheme
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# social-welfare - Saturday 29 December, 2018
Minister Regina Doherty said a number of measures are taken to try to recover the monies owed.
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# social-welfare - Friday 30 November, 2018
How much the companies got paid per person has been shrouded in secrecy since the roll out of the programme.
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# social-welfare - Thursday 22 November, 2018
Social welfare fraud totalled €38.4 million in 2017, down from €41 million in 2016.
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# social-welfare - Sunday 4 November, 2018
Exceptional needs payments can be made under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme.
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# social-welfare - Tuesday 9 October, 2018
The Christmas bonus will be fully restored for the first time since the economic downturn.
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# social-welfare - Sunday 7 October, 2018
Petrol, diesel, fuel and cigarettes are all set to rise.
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# social-welfare - Monday 1 October, 2018
The party’s alternative budget proposes a €1 billion boost for social housing.
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# social-welfare - Friday 28 September, 2018
Concerns have been raised about the repeat fees being paid to the companies operating the Jobpath programme.
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# social-welfare - Tuesday 25 September, 2018
She said people on welfare payments were needlessly worried by news reports this morning.
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# social-welfare - Thursday 30 August, 2018
The National Recruitment Federation also noted the cost of childcare is keeping people out of work.
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# social-welfare - Tuesday 28 August, 2018
The Department of Social Protection has accused GPs of delaying the payouts of illness benefits.
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Many people have said that neither their GP or the Department informed them of the changeover in the forms required when claiming their benefit.
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# social-welfare - Saturday 4 August, 2018
More inspections are to be carried out in the near future.
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# social-welfare - Monday 12 March, 2018
In total, an extra €22.50 will be paid to over 368,000 households.
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# social-welfare - Wednesday 28 February, 2018
The fuel allowance payment was also doubled for this week.
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# social-welfare - Thursday 25 January, 2018
The 61-year-old told gardaí she was “sorry, ashamed and embarrassed”.
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# social-welfare - Thursday 4 January, 2018
The Department of Social Protection said it was investigating the matter.
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# social-welfare - Monday 27 November, 2017
Abolished in 2009, the Christmas bonus was partially restored by the then Tánaiste Joan Burton in 2014 and has increased to the current 85%.
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# social-welfare - Friday 24 November, 2017
But the Social Protection minister says that other changes to social welfare payments are “in limbo”.
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# social-welfare - Tuesday 10 October, 2017
The cost of the Christmas bonus is €219 million.
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46-year-old Richard Burbridge committed the offences while operating a courier contract for the Courts Service.
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An increase to some child benefits, investment in the State’s free childcare scheme and more teachers are among the changes.
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A Christmas bonus of 85% will be paid to social welfare recipients this year.
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# social-welfare - 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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# social-welfare - Friday 29 September, 2017
The six cases have all been reported to gardaí.
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# social-welfare - Tuesday 5 September, 2017
The man’s food and rent bills have fallen into arrears by almost €2,000.
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