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*But the payment will be scaled back the longer a person is out of work.
The letters were delivered in Oireachtas envelopes and headed paper.
It has been increased by 75% this year.
A missing persons alert was issued yesterday.
“This is one small step, but it’s a big change”.
It’s an unpalatable solution politically, but the truth is workers and students need to be in a place while those in receipt of welfare cannot make the same claim.
The organisers of the Puck Fair have responded to criticism from animal rights groups.
Joanna Tuffy’s comments were criticised by Twitter users and a Sinn Féin MEP.
The claims have been made by English Labour MP Frank Field.
The Department of Social Protection said that increasing them could lead to rental inflation.
David Cameron wants to do it – should we do it here?
Three people living in direct provision centres explain what people don’t realise about their lives.
An open letter to the Minister for Social Protection: “I left that office embarrassed, angry, degraded, and a shadow of the educated, confident woman I am meant to be.”
The DSPCA reports multiple prosecutions under the new Act.
The European Court of Justice said that Germany did not have to give a Romanian man benefits.
There was also problems with HSE procurement and payments to farmers.
The Universal Royalty Beauty Contest is planning to proceed with its Belfast pageant.
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.
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.
The Gateway scheme would pay long-term unemployed people €20 a week to work in their local communities.
A Fine Gael TD asked the Labour minister about a recent ban on immigrants in the UK receiving dole payment for their first three months of residency.
The Government had a knee-jerk reaction last year and cut Mobility Allowance to new applicants. Nearly 12 months later, those in need are still in limbo, writes Anne-Maree Quinn.
The carcasses of three horses were also removed from the Hollyhill site on the north side of Cork city.
The Minister for Social Protection has made a significant speech on the welfare state today.
Two children who were removed from their Roma families have since been reunited with them.
The Immigrant Council of Ireland wants Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton to outline safeguards against racial profiling in crackdown on welfare fraud.
Here’s our round-up of the most interesting and most popular comments from this week. Did you make it in?
New powers and investigative techniques have led to the apprehension of 101 welfare tourists at airports since last June.
The rate of overpayment has jumped 92 per cent since 2007, but just 42 per cent of wrongful payments were down to fraud.
New welfare system changes are morally dubious and serve only make the lives of unemployed more unpleasant, writes Tom Boland.
Here’s our round-up of the most interesting and most popular comments from this week. Did you make it in?
The Universal Royalty Beauty Pageant is taking place in Dublin this weekend, but Jillian Van Turnhout said the contest has ‘no place in Ireland’.
Reports today say that cuts to Social Protection will amount to a welfare cap, but the Minister for Social Protection says nothing has been decided.
A report has recommended that the department review eligibility criteria for some payments to “recognise the reality of the labour market”.
The ISPCA received 1,524 calls over the whole of 2012 – and has taken 1,372 calls so far this year.
A Dog’s Life has said it will not be able to provide the same service to the new pound, and fears more dogs will be put down.
Many Finnish babies spend their first nights nestled inside a cardboard box – and here’s why.
The building was bought over a decade ago at a cost of almost €1.5 million by the taxpayer for use by the Probation and Welfare Service – but has lain empty ever since because the service declined to relocate there.