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Reports today suggest that wealthy parents may be given the option to return the €140 monthly payment. Good idea? Bad idea?
…So why is the Department of Finance dragging its heels on figuring out that this policy would be cash-positive for the State, asks independent TD Stephen Donnelly.
Shane McEntee’s suggestion that young people shouldn’t get welfare unless they join a work scheme has been labelled “hypocritical” by a youth group.
However, the costs fall dramatically as children grow older and begin school.
The economic think-tank has revised the findings from a controversial working paper which it pulled earlier this week.
The academic who co-authored the controversial article which was withdrawn by the ESRI said he stands over his findings.
The Department of Social Protection has been cracking down on the number of prisoners who claim social welfare benefits while in jail.
New York con artist collected his late mother’s Social Security payments after her death.
Losing friends and juggling bills as your confidence ebbs away – politicians don’t understand the reality of joblessness, writes Alan McMenamin.
Sustainable employment is the aim of the Government’s new Pathways to Work programme.
The funds we’re currently spending on make-work training programmes should be handed directly to unemployed people, writes Aaron McKenna.
Joan Burton says 982,000 individual claims have been reviewed, including savings of €60m from the ‘special investigation unit’.
The jobseekers had their payments reduced after the Department of Social Protection examined around 2,000 cases of people who failed to attend two Employment Action Plan interviews.
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 Polish woman at the centre of a controversial article which was mistranslated from a Polish newspaper has spoken out about her shock at the description of her life on the dole.
The new system aims to reduce long-term unemployment – and penalise people who refuse work or training.
The VAT increase, the Household Charge, cigarettes and alcohol – get all of the main points of Budget 2012 in two rather nifty infographics.
Ann Hughes had been concerned that Carer’s Allowance would be cut. The government left it alone – but there were other changes which will still affect her.
A numerical breakdown of where the government has cut €2.2 billion in spending,
Larger families – who are already more at risk of experiencing poverty – will bear the brunt of reductions to child benefit, a charity has warned.
Leaked draft documents seen by TheJournal.ie indicate that the social protection budget will be heavily targeted.
The Government trumpets the figure of €600million as a potential saving from social welfare fraud. Just one problem – the real figure is €26million, writes Michael Taft.
Labour’s Kevin Humphreys has called for medical cert payments to be stopped after the €550,000-a-week bill emerged.
Joan Burton wants to target those for whom welfare is a “lifestyle choice”.
Joan Burton has proposed that dole claimants have their payments docked if they refuse training or offers of work but is it right to do this?