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Figures show that the unemployment rate has dropped below 14 per cent for the first time since 2010.
The department answered 8.4 million calls, allocated 154,000 PPS numbers and processed two million applications.
The CSO figures show there were 421,737 people signing on the Live Register in May – an annual decrease of -2.6 per cent.
Aoife O’Connor has gone to college, got good results, borrowed money to get more qualifications by doing a postgrad, but she still finds herself with no job. Here she asks why she can’t catch a break?
Unemployment stayed at 14.0 per cent last month with only a minor drop in the numbers signing on.
The CSO report said that the decline in employment activity for foreign nationals has not resulted in a corresponding increase in social welfare activity.
The contemporary world values people in terms of what they do for a living, so what is that saying to the unemployed, asks Tom Boland.
Leaked bailout documents reveal new Department of Social Protection plans to get longstanding jobseekers back to work.
The Department of Jobs has said that its performance must relate to services delivered and not money spent as figures show it underspent by €85 million in the first three quarters of 2012.
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.
Despite earlier promises that PRSI contributions for self-employed people would be reformed, the Department of Social Protection says it would have “significant financial implications”.
…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.
The economic think-tank has revised the findings from a controversial working paper which it pulled earlier this week.
The Economic and Social Research Institute has issued another statement in relation to the controversial working paper which it withdrew yesterday.
In an unprecedented step, the widely cited thinktank has withdrawn a working paper which said that as many as 44 per cent of people with children would be better off on the dole than working.
15 per cent of people without children and 44 per cent of people with children would be better off not working given the high costs involved.
Paying rich and poor alike might sound counter-intuitive – but it could lay the foundation for a welfare system that works, writes Anne B Ryan.
The number of people on the Live Register fell by 4,000 last month, though unemployment remained at 14.3 per cent.
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the eurozone was 10.9 per cent in March – up by 1pc in twelve months.
Losing friends and juggling bills as your confidence ebbs away – politicians don’t understand the reality of joblessness, writes Alan McMenamin.
Losing work leaves many people at a loss. Here John McGuire explains what to do when the news arrives – and why it may not be as bad as you think.
Sustainable employment is the aim of the Government’s new Pathways to Work programme.
Speaking in Cork last night, the Taoiseach said the cabinet has launched “an internetional charm offensive” to improve the state’s reputation.
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 number of long-term unemployed on the Live Register now stands at 40.4 per cent.
Replacing payments with vouchers would prevent people on benefits spending them on “alcohol and drugs”, said the judge.
Joan Burton wants to target those for whom welfare is a “lifestyle choice”.
Figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the numbers signing on jumped by 2,600 in the month of May.
The think tank has encouraged a cut in dole payments to the long-term unemployed, but says house prices will stop falling in 2012 and supports the Irish decision not to raise the corporate tax rate.
Ireland’s rate of unemployment now stands at 14.6 per cent, down 0.1 from last month, with 439,200 signing on.
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?
The minister for social protection Joan Burton has said that she wants to get people back to work and off the cash-in-hand black market.
1,100 more people were signing on March, up by almost 11,000 on the same time last year but down on September’s peak.
Unemployed teachers and non-teachers could work for up to nine months for their dole payments under a new scheme.
Under a new scheme, schools will be able to hire unemployed teachers, graduates and non-graduates to work for free. So is it a great opportunity for them to build their cv, or exploitation?