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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.
Tánaiste Simon Coveney also confirmed the Department of Foreign Affairs has helped some 4,600 Irish citizens return home.
Yonatan Eyob claimed £500 after complaining his hotel food caused him to put on weight and outgrow his clothes.
Regina Doherty said there’d been a fourfold increase in the number of claims for free treatment benefits.
The Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) has declined to provide an estimate as to when the ACS, originally slated for September 2017, will be able to officially launch.
Details of complaints were released to TheJournal.ie under the Freedom of Information Act.
Nearly 20,000 people reported suspicious behaviour last year.
Leo Varadkar said that the results of the survey carried out by his department would inform Budget 2018.
The Department of Social Protection received over 20,000 reports of welfare fraud from members of the public up to the end of November.
Critics say the current rules are an incentive for so-called benefits tourism.
A recent report compared and measured the experience of youth across OECD member states.
Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar wants to know what benefits self-employed workers want.
However, the head of ISME says the government needs to show some leadership on the issue.
“Without St. Vincent de Paul I would still be living in a cold house and be going without food.”
The internet can be nice. Sometimes.
The ESRI research found that eight out of 10 jobseekers would earn 40% more by finding work than staying on benefits.
Under current Australian laws, parents who have “conscientious objections” about jabs can still claim payments.
Doctors have said the plan may actually cost money, not save it.
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Scribblers Cards has done some hasty backtracking.
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One of the reasons for their popularity amongst weightlifters is because it helps you overcome the dreaded plateau in your training.
The European Court of Justice said that Germany did not have to give a Romanian man benefits.
Warning: there is absolutely no coffee in this diet.
You can’t lose weight and stay fit simply by removing fat from your diet. But you can give your body fats that are more beneficial to your health.
The mortality rate was higher for boys than for girls, irrespective of the type of vaccine last offered.
Figures from the Department of Social Protection revealed more than 23,000 appeals were lodged in the first ten months of this year.
There are SO many benefits to advancing years. But, sssh, don’t tell the whipper snappers.
Free bus travel, free television licences, heating bill payments – one Conservative minister in Britain has suggested rich pensioners may not need them all.
John Martin, who was behind the major OECD study published into Ireland’s pensions timebomb, says private pensions need to start sending regular letters out to people. Here’s why.
83-year-old Edith Windsor was ordered to pay federal inheritance taxes of $363,000 following the 2009 death of Thea Spyer, her partner of more than 40 years.
Minister Joan Burton said that Deputy Boyd Barrett’s “notion that social welfare illness payments and benefits are being denied to people is very, very wide of the mark”.
If someone is claiming benefits, should the government be allowed to monitor their online job searches on an official website?
The website allows unemployed users to upload a CV to be matched to suitable job openings.
Crowds gathered today to protest against job and benefit cuts as well as the tax increases passed today.
The percentage of households where adults are not working has grown from 15 per cent to 22 per cent in just three years.
Alan Dukes of IBRC told Minister Michael Noonan that staff pay cuts at the bank were not pursued partly because of the difficulty in retaining and attracting staff.
The Department of Social Protection recently introduced a measure to allow payments to be reduced by up to €44 a week for those refusing to take up job interviews, training, or employment offers.
Fears over ceding our sovereignty are misplaced – people do it all the time, writes Ronan Lyons. Here’s what we should be focusing on instead.
This idea is a cover for the Government’s ineptitude, writes Aaron McKenna. Have we forgotten the point of social welfare?