# child-benefit - Wednesday 7 July, 2021
# Welfare
# Welfare
Several families who expected to be given the payment this week have not received it.
# child-benefit - Tuesday 25 May, 2021
# Fine Gael
# Fine Gael
Cllr David McManus said he did not mean to cause offence by his comments.
# child-benefit - Monday 20 January, 2020
# Jail
# Jail
Leendert Stolk fraudulently used a school stamp while claiming child benefit for his two children between 2011 and 2018, a court heard today.
# child-benefit - Friday 2 August, 2019
# Data Protection
# Data Protection
It comes after an individual made a complaint about the repeated requests to provide information to claim child benefit.
# child-benefit - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
# Delayed Payment
# Delayed Payment
Customers with An Post, Ulster Bank and PTSB have been affected.
# child-benefit - Wednesday 6 June, 2018
# Your Say
# Your Say
Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty said yesterday she supported the universality of the payment.
# child-benefit - Tuesday 5 June, 2018
# Childcare Costs
# Childcare Costs
Regina Doherty acknowledged that there are issues with the childcare system in Ireland but argued that means testing is cumbersome.
# child-benefit - Tuesday 10 October, 2017
# Childcare
# Childcare
An increase to some child benefits, investment in the State’s free childcare scheme and more teachers are among the changes.
# child-benefit - Wednesday 3 May, 2017
# Recommended
# Recommended
Less than half of eligible girls began the series of HPV jabs last September, far lower than the target of 80%.
# child-benefit - Monday 17 October, 2016
# Budget2017
# Budget2017
Finance Minister Michael Noonan said providing tax credits for paid child care would fail an equity test.
# child-benefit - Wednesday 25 May, 2016
# U-turn
# U-turn
Leo Varadkar doesn’t think it would help.
# child-benefit - Saturday 14 May, 2016
# Opinion
# Opinion
The plan to link Child Benefit to children’s school attendance records has come under much scrutiny this week.
# child-benefit - Wednesday 11 May, 2016
# Your Say
# Your Say
A section of the draft programme for government includes a section proposing this.
# child-benefit - Tuesday 13 October, 2015
# The Heartland
# The Heartland
Child Benefit is up by a fiver and the Respite Care Grant has been restored.
# child-benefit - Monday 12 October, 2015
# Budget 2016
# Budget 2016
The announcement is not until tomorrow but details are already emerging.
# child-benefit - Monday 14 September, 2015
# The Leaks So Far
# The Leaks So Far
With a month to go, the Budget leaks have begun in earnest.
# child-benefit - Wednesday 24 June, 2015
# Parliamentary Language
# Parliamentary Language
Tens of millions of euro are overpaid each year.
# child-benefit - Wednesday 27 May, 2015
# Pay Out
# Pay Out
The Department of Social Protection says it aims to minimise risks of fraud and eliminate incorrect payments.
# child-benefit - Thursday 29 January, 2015
# Kids And Money
# Kids And Money
This Senator thinks that should change.
# child-benefit - Wednesday 28 January, 2015
# Imf Warning
# Imf Warning
The Coalition is standing its ground.
# child-benefit - Sunday 14 December, 2014
# Savings
# Savings
Around €130 million in the last two years.
# child-benefit - Wednesday 15 October, 2014
# Nope
From The Daily Edge
# Thinking Ahead
# Thinking Ahead
A small increase in child benefit was announced as part of the Budget yesterday.
# child-benefit - Tuesday 14 October, 2014
# Budget 2015
# Budget 2015
Brendan Howlin sprung the surprise increase this afternoon.
# child-benefit - Sunday 3 August, 2014
# Reform
# Reform
A public consultation process has been announced ahead of the publication of the Data-Sharing and Governance Bill.
# child-benefit - Thursday 17 July, 2014
# Jobseekers
# Jobseekers
A new study has found that the number in receipt of these payments are just a little or below the number in the work force.
# child-benefit - Wednesday 9 July, 2014
# Social Welfare
# Social Welfare
Between pensions, jobseeker’s payments and allowances for children and carers, Joan Burton’s department spend €20.3 billion.
# child-benefit - Monday 9 June, 2014
# Your Say
# Your Say
It’s one of the few remaining universal payments, but should it depend on how much money the parents make?
# child-benefit - Tuesday 15 April, 2014
# Financial Distress
# Financial Distress
A recent change to child benefit is forcing separated parents into “primary” and a “secondary” roles.
# child-benefit - Wednesday 2 October, 2013
# Austerity
# Austerity
A family with one parent has also seen its tax bill jump by 125 as a result of austerity policies, according to a new report.
# child-benefit - Friday 23 August, 2013
# Child Benefit
# Child Benefit
TD Denis Naughten has said the payment of €130 would remain intact but would be based on school attendance under his proposal which he said could also help reduce truancy.
# child-benefit - Sunday 18 August, 2013
# child-benefit - Thursday 25 July, 2013
# Budget 2014
# Budget 2014
“Clearly no one wants to reduce child benefit, but there will be cuts and there will be adjustments,” Junior Finance Minister Brian Hayes has said of the social welfare budget this evening.
# child-benefit - Sunday 21 July, 2013
# News Fix
# News Fix
Everyone’s talking about water safety, Anglo emails and Irish sporting exploits.
# Budget 2014
# Budget 2014
Is there a row in the camp over the issue?
# child-benefit - Sunday 2 June, 2013
# Election Promises
# Election Promises
“Isn’t that what you do during an election?”: Pat Rabbitte says his RTÉ comments were misrepresented… by Vincent Browne.
# child-benefit - Saturday 11 May, 2013
# Not The News
# Not The News
Breaking via The Mire wire: Leinster House goes wild photocopying arses, free GP care for healthy citizens, and FG TDs insult each other for Twitter practice.
# child-benefit - Friday 8 March, 2013
# Social Welfare
# Social Welfare
Jobseeker’s benefit was the only payment that had a lower rate of suspected fraud than departmental error.
# child-benefit - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
# Leinster House
# Leinster House
Joan Burton discusses her stance on a possible two-tier child benefit system in the Seanad today.
# child-benefit - Thursday 21 February, 2013
# Social Welfare
# Social Welfare
The recommended two-tier child benefit system will worsen the situation of families who are already struggling, the charity said.
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