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# Jobseekers Allowance

Last year
2023
More than €111 million in social welfare overpayments uncovered last year
31 Jul 2023
27.7k
64
Unemployed who worked 5 years or more before losing job to get €450 per week under Govt plan
10 Feb 2023
56.8k
47
All time
'Insanity': Criticism as unemployment benefit to be paid at post offices rather than online
7 Feb 2022
121k
118
Jobseekers payments to return to post offices following lifting of Covid restrictions
26 Jan 2022
20.0k
18
No plans for rollback of cuts to the Pandemic Unemployment Payment rates
Updated 16 Nov 2021
42.0k
39
ICTU: Scrap 'inadequate' unemployment welfare system and link payments to past earnings
15 Nov 2021
32.6k
22
State pension and core social welfare payments to increase by €5 per week
12 Oct 2021
33.4k
26
New social welfare scheme promises 'breathing space' for unemployed artists
5 Jul 2019
27.2k
81
Woman who committed €31,000 worth of welfare fraud sentenced to community service
30 Jun 2017
30.2k
51
'My Jobseeker's Allowance was cut to €40 a week - I can’t afford to go to interviews'
Anonymous
27 Nov 2016
14.6k
139
Waiting times for social welfare payments vary from one week to 40 weeks
1 Nov 2016
49.4k
30
'There are lots of jobs available': Leo defends lower jobseekers' payments to young people
11 Oct 2016
27.1k
83
FactCheck: How do jobseeker's payments here compare to Northern Ireland?
11 Oct 2016
59.2k
108
'Completely unacceptable': 21-week wait for carer's allowance claims to be processed
22 May 2016
37.1k
36
Under 26 and on the dole? Labour has some good news for you - sort of
23 Nov 2015
34.6k
76
Joan denies an unemployed man was told to apply for 200-300 jobs a week
23 Nov 2015
21.7k
70
Signing off for Christmas work? Your dole will be restored 'immediately' afterwards
7 Nov 2014
14.9k
67
New law would force unemployed to upload CVs to job sites - or have their dole cut
7 Oct 2014
15.3k
105
Social welfare staff are being told to refuse dole payments to 'locked out' Greyhound workers
19 Jul 2014
20.7k
106
Almost 3,000 extra young people were signing on last month
2 Jul 2014
10.3k
74
Opinion: Yes, I'm unemployed but that doesn't make me lazy or incompetent
Adam Brennan
22 Jun 2014
2.3k
163
Appealing a social welfare decision? You could be in for a long wait
16 Jun 2014
8.7k
6
Jobseeker payments expenditure to fall by as much as 20 per cent
23 Feb 2014
12.8k
24
Three Labour senators targeted over dole cut but they'll support measure
2 Nov 2013
6.9k
31
Dáil passes Social Welfare Bill which implements Budget 2014 cuts
25 Oct 2013
10.4k
88
Column: The exploitation of young people has been cemented by this government
Andrew Byrne and Dan Hayden
17 Oct 2013
152
166
1,900 "welfare tourists" caught in three years
8 Oct 2013
28.4k
206
Social welfare payments delayed by one day, affecting 32,700 people
16 Jul 2013
30.4k
139
Government to hire private companies to find work for long-term unemployed
11 Jan 2013
11.1k
133
Small drop in live register figures - but unemployment stays at 14.6 per cent
4 Jan 2013
3.1k
24
Facial recognition on the way for social welfare claimants
29 Dec 2012
28.3k
284
Readers' Panel Part One: What are you expecting from Budget 2013?
4 Dec 2012
5.1k
21
Burton: Unemployed who work over Christmas "should not have any concerns"
19 Nov 2012
10.4k
26
Oireachtas committee considers access to welfare for self-employed
3 Oct 2012
5.9k
38
Live register down by 2,000 in August, but unemployment stays at 14.7pc
5 Sep 2012
3.5k
45
Leaked Brussels report seeks Dole cuts to long-term unemployed
29 Aug 2012
13.5k
177
Four in ten see 'no future for themselves' in Ireland - survey
9 Jan 2012
2.5k
24
€28,000 yearly welfare payments are not indicative of average families - Department
2 Oct 2011
1.3k
42
Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock
18 Jul 2011
2.6k
5
Unemployment rate increased in May, reaching 14.8 per cent
1 Jun 2011
535
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