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# Social Welfare

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Employees who are forced to self-isolate due to monkeypox advised to apply for Illness Benefit
17,000 apply for emergency social welfare payments for food, fuel and clothing in July alone
Help for renters, pension and social welfare increases as 'more room to manoeuvre' in Budget
Carer told to repay social welfare payment after teen son's death calls for system reform
Warning over linking unemployment benefits to previous earnings
Ryan signals need for social welfare and tax changes to get country through 'very difficult period'
Treatment Benefit Scheme for dental works, hearing aids and glasses extended by 80,000 people
Up to €14,000 can be earned in rent by social welfare recipients under newly agreed rules
Targeted welfare payments would ease cost of living pressure on lower-income workers, experts say
Christmas payment will be paid to 1.4 million social welfare recipients next week
No plans for rollback of cuts to the Pandemic Unemployment Payment rates
Opinion: Rising energy costs this winter are now a major concern for low-income households
State pension and core social welfare payments to increase by €5 per week
Pension and social welfare payment rises on the cards for next month's Budget
Music industry warns of 'ticking time bomb' as PUP cuts set to kick in next month
New unemployment payment linked to past working history pushed out to 2023
Child benefit instalment unpaid for older teenagers due to delay with forms
Tánaiste expects number of PUP recipients to fall to a third of current level by end of the year
Government plans to link unemployment payments to past working history and PRSI contributions
New weekly payment of €203 introduced for 65-year-olds after rise of pension age
Which Budget changes kick in from tomorrow?
Self-employed people allowed earn €960 over two months without losing their Pandemic Unemployment Payment
The largest cohort on the PUP right now? Workers in accommodation and food services
Christmas Bonus will be paid to over 1.6 million people in early December
Over 340,000 receive Pandemic Unemployment Payment this week as total spend on scheme tops €4 billion
Highest level of Pandemic Unemployment Payment to be restored to €350 a week
Number receiving Covid-19 unemployment payment rises by over 15,000
How the 2021 Budget will impact social welfare payments
Self-employed people to be allowed claim Covid-19 welfare payment while earning through work
Most people on the Pandemic Unemployment Payment will get a Christmas bonus
Number receiving Covid-19 unemployment payment jumps by over 23,000
Social welfare payments will be paid weekly again from the beginning of November
Data watchdog has 'serious doubts' over whether social welfare inspectors acted lawfully at airports
'There is no agenda here': Taoiseach open to a review of PUP cases that were cut off due to travel
Department of Social Protection: 'The PUP is not paid to people who leave the country to live elsewhere, or who go on holidays abroad'
Decision to cut welfare payments after recipients' holidays abroad criticised as 'unfair and discriminatory'
Freezing of cryptocurrency used by criminals results in jump in CAB proceeds
More than four years’ worth of welfare claims processed in a few weeks, Oireachtas committee hears
Domestic violence victims given access to Rent Supplement without a means test
Rent Supplement payments rise by 33% since beginning of Covid-19 pandemic