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The fuel allowance payment was also doubled for this week.
A number of parties, including Fianna Fail, have called for people to be allowed to work beyond 65 if they so choose.
The Taoiseach plans to set up a Gender Equality Commission.
As part of Fora’s How My Business Works series, it profiles Sonas Bathrooms.
A recent report compared and measured the experience of youth across OECD member states.
The INOU has welcomed the plan, which the Department of Social Protection told TheJournal.ie is under consideration.
*But the payment will be scaled back the longer a person is out of work.
It’s election-time and all I have to my name is my vote, writes an anonymous contributor.
The number of people signing on in December was 34,496 fewer than in the same month in 2014.
Young adults are currently paid a lower rate of jobseeker’s allowance.
A new RTÉ show aims to find out.
The bonus is paid to long-term welfare claimants such as jobseekers, pensioners, carers, lone-parents and those with a disability.
ALL THE BOYS ON THE FÁS COURSE! ALL THE BOYS ON THE DOLE!
The move has been described as an “absolute disgrace” by one politician.
The man has led a ‘sad life’ the court heard.
Tens of millions of euro are overpaid each year.
Over 4,000 case investigations were carried out by the Department’s Special Investigation Unit.
Minister of State Gerald Nash said the government discussed the proposals this week.
By-election candidate Adrienne Wallace says there would be outrage if ‘women or black people had to accept a lower rate’.
The next budget is gearing up to be pretty generous one. It’s the latest in the pre-election extravaganza…
Minister Kevin Humphreys is reminding those on Jobseekers payments that seasonal work of up to eight weeks can be taken.
Tobias Kirkner arrived back to Ireland and thought it would be easy to ‘get on the dole’… he was wrong.
No, you can’t have them. There were all returned to the Department.
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.
Overall, the number of people on the Live Register decreased by 4,400 in June.
Terence Flanagan used a case involving one of his own constituents to ask if the Department of Social Protection cuts the dole of anti-government protestors.
Somebody told me the other day, quite abruptly, that ‘there are plenty of jobs out there’. Well, I beg to differ.
Think tank the ESRI has found that for those who, on a “snapshot” basis, would be “better off on the dole” tend to choose employment instead.
There was a 1,600 decrease in the Live Register figures, once seasonally adjusted.
This is due to the scale of anti-fraud measures that must be developed.
An Taoiseach made the comments as Live Register declined for the 22nd consecutive month.
It represents the 22nd month in a row that the number of claimants on the Live Register has fallen.
Sinn Féin’s Aengus Ó Snodaigh said the Gateway scheme is there to provide chronically underfunded local authorities with cheap general dogsbodies.
Some good news for the Government this morning.
Officials from the OPW and Social Protection Department are now to look for an alternative solution.
The 25-year-old father of two said he was told he would be expected to spend six months in Afghanistan if he enlisted.
The plan is a further step towards the political disillusionment of young people, a drastic slash in living standards, and an even more polarised society, write Dan O’Neill and Fiona Dunkin.
The Government’s expected to change the terms of dole payments for young people in tomorrow’s Budget. But is it a good idea?
The number of people signing on for a year or more has decreased slightly, -1.3 per cent on July 2012.
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