# social-protection - Saturday 7 April, 2018
# Mandatory And Compulsory
# Mandatory And Compulsory
The government is reportedly considering making paid paternity leave mandatory for all new fathers.
# social-protection - Monday 2 April, 2018
# Battle Of Wills
# Battle Of Wills
The man has long maintained that, in being denied a PSC because he refused to get an adoption certificate, he was in effect being discriminated against.
# social-protection - Monday 12 March, 2018
# Beast From The East
# Beast From The East
In total, an extra €22.50 will be paid to over 368,000 households.
# social-protection - Wednesday 28 February, 2018
# Stay Warm
# Stay Warm
The decision means that fuel allowance recipients will now automatically receive €45 for this week instead of the usual €22.50.
# social-protection - Tuesday 20 February, 2018
# Feature Creep
# Feature Creep
Driving licence applications will become the latest state process to be added to the Public Services Card’s remit in just under seven weeks.
# social-protection - Thursday 8 February, 2018
# Grave Concerns
# Grave Concerns
The Public Services Card was discussed for the first time in an Oireachtas forum at the Social Protection committee today.
# social-protection - Saturday 3 February, 2018
# Poverty Line
# Poverty Line
The rate refers to households where no adult is working.
# social-protection - Sunday 21 January, 2018
# PSC
# PSC
“I just burst out crying,” the 50-year-old woman says. “I really think this is the highest form of discrimination.”
# social-protection - Friday 5 January, 2018
# Technical Glitch
# Technical Glitch
The technical glitch that caused the issue has been resolved.
# social-protection - Tuesday 26 December, 2017
# Social Protection
# Social Protection
Exceptional needs payments can be made under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme.
# social-protection - Thursday 7 December, 2017
# Mistake
# Mistake
The Welfare Cheats Cheat Us All campaign was launched by the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in April of this year.
# social-protection - Monday 4 December, 2017
# High Court
# High Court
She was told she was being investigated by the Department of Social Protection and the payments were being suspended.
# social-protection - Wednesday 18 October, 2017
# Fighting Words
# Fighting Words
The Government looks set to lose a vote in the Dáil.
# social-protection - Saturday 7 October, 2017
# Jobseekers
# Jobseekers
Catherine MurphyTD has raised serious concerns in the Dáil regarding the activation programme, JobPath.
# social-protection - Wednesday 4 October, 2017
# Factfind
# Factfind
One of the Budget talking points will be how our social welfare benefits compare to our EU counterparts.
# social-protection - Friday 29 September, 2017
# Overpayments
# Overpayments
The six cases have all been reported to gardaí.
# social-protection - Sunday 3 September, 2017
# Wherefore Art Thou
# Wherefore Art Thou
Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe is as culpable as anyone when it comes to the furore surrounding the Public Services Card. So why is he keeping such a low profile?
# social-protection - Sunday 27 August, 2017
# Social Protection
# Social Protection
An across-the-board increase is reportedly being considered.
# social-protection - Friday 21 July, 2017
# This Is New
# This Is New
The news was welcomed by a number of parties.
# social-protection - Saturday 15 July, 2017
# Big Brother
# Big Brother
Applying for a passport and a driver’s licence will soon require the Public Services Card – but that’s only the beginning.
# social-protection - Monday 3 July, 2017
# Helping Hand
# Helping Hand
The department is launching an awareness campaign well ahead of the 30 September deadline.
# social-protection - Saturday 24 June, 2017
# On The Rise
# On The Rise
There have been 4,859 reports received by the department since 18 April, compared to 3,322 in the same period last year.
# social-protection - Sunday 18 June, 2017
# social-protection - Wednesday 14 June, 2017
# Social Protection
# Social Protection
Meanwhile, the weekly payments for those in Direct Provision are also set to be increased.
# social-protection - Friday 2 June, 2017
# Profile
# Profile
The Social Protection Minister could succeed Enda Kenny as leader of Fine Gael … and the country.
# social-protection - Wednesday 31 May, 2017
# Carry The One
# Carry The One
Sinn Féin has called on the government to end this “dishonest welfare fraud campaign”.
# social-protection - Sunday 7 May, 2017
# Social Protection
# Social Protection
Last year 58% of applications for disability allowance were allowed after they were appealed.
# social-protection - Friday 5 May, 2017
# Social Protection
# Social Protection
The ‘Welfare Cheats Cheat Us All’ campaign is designed to encourage reporting of suspected or known social welfare fraud.
# Welfare Cheats
# Welfare Cheats
Leo Varadkar’s department made €41 million in overpayments due to customer fraud in 2016.
# social-protection - Tuesday 2 May, 2017
# Looking Into It
# Looking Into It
Leo Varadkar said that the results of the survey carried out by his department would inform Budget 2018.
# social-protection - Sunday 16 April, 2017
# Social Protection
# Social Protection
Dublin had the highest number of recipients, while Leitrim had the lowest.
# social-protection - Tuesday 11 April, 2017
# Data Protection
# Data Protection
Over 1,400 data protection complaints were made in 2016, up from 932 in 2015.
# social-protection - Wednesday 5 April, 2017
If you work for yourself, these are must-reads.
# social-protection - Monday 6 February, 2017
# Social Protection
# Social Protection
People will now have five years to decide if they want to pay voluntary contributions.
# social-protection - Thursday 5 January, 2017
# Social Welfare
# Social Welfare
Changes have been made to the One-Parent Family Payment and the Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment.
# social-protection - Thursday 22 December, 2016
# Fraud
# Fraud
The Department of Social Protection received over 20,000 reports of welfare fraud from members of the public up to the end of November.
# social-protection - Sunday 13 November, 2016
# Social Welfare
# Social Welfare
More than 4,000 people are waiting for their applications to be processed, with an average wait time of 14 weeks.
# social-protection - Tuesday 1 November, 2016
# Social Protection
# Social Protection
As of 30 September, the average waiting time to receive a carer’s allowance was about nine months.
# social-protection - Tuesday 18 October, 2016
# Scrapped
# Scrapped
Consultation will soon begin for a new job activation programme to take its place.
# social-protection - Saturday 15 October, 2016
# Opinion
# Opinion
David Gibney writes that if you scrap the USC, the revenue must be found elsewhere or we will face deteriorated public services.
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