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# social-welfare - Thursday 10 May, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Social Welfare This post contains videos

VIDEO: What happens when a TD faces the social welfare system?

10/05/12 7,452 Views 51 Comments

Independent TD Stephen Donnelly told the Dáil last night:”The system is not working.”

# social-welfare - Wednesday 9 May, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Your Say This post contains a poll

Poll: Is the new social welfare ID card a good idea?

09/05/12 8,685 Views 102 Comments

The new Public Services Card is due to be rolled out nationwide this month in a bid to reduce social welfare fraud. But is it a good move?

Additional 1,000 JobBridge places announced

09/05/12 3,128 Views 56 Comments

Minister Joan Burton says scheme is also being extended to include people receiving One Parent Family payment and disability allowance.

# social-welfare - Tuesday 1 May, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Opinion

Column: The social welfare bill – ‘I wonder what this button does?’

01/05/12 7,934 Views 59 Comments

Independent TD Stephen Donnelly laments “a series of policy mistakes” embedded into our legislation tonight as the Social Welfare Bill is signed into law.

# social-welfare - Wednesday 18 April, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Single Parents

Charities say Social Welfare Bill will push one-parent families into poverty

18/04/12 3,655 Views 22 Comments

The Social Welfare Bill being brought to the Dáil proposes to send single parents onto the dole when their youngest child turns 7.

# social-welfare - Thursday 5 April, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Take 5

The 5 at 5: Thursday

05/04/12 4,341 Views 3 Comments

5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…

From TheJournal.ie Social Welfare

Changes to single parent payments proposed in Social Welfare bill

05/04/12 6,858 Views 92 Comments

The proposals include reducing the maximum age of the youngest child for receipt of the One-Parent Family Payment to just 7-years-old by 2014.

# social-welfare - Wednesday 4 April, 2012

From Business ETC Jobs

Unemployment rate falls to 14.3 per cent in March

04/04/12 2,386 Views 44 Comments

The number of people signing on fell by 3,000 last month, bringing the unemployment rate down by 0.1 per cent to 14.3.

# social-welfare - Tuesday 20 March, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Disabilities

Disabilities: 1,700 Domiciliary Care Allowance applications scheduled for review

20/03/12 3,264 Views 15 Comments

A number of people have initiated legal proceedings against the Department over its decision to cease DCA payments.

# social-welfare - Tuesday 13 March, 2012

From TheJournal.ie SWAP

Time not right for Single Working Age Payment, says Oireachtas committee

13/03/12 4,360 Views 4 Comments

Although the committee on jobs, social protection and education approves of the principle of the payment.

# social-welfare - Friday 9 March, 2012

From TheJournal.ie JobBridge

Employment scheme aims to ‘keep people close to labour market’, says minister

09/03/12 2,321 Views 34 Comments

Joan Burton says unemployed professionals will be expected to take up reasonable job offers.

From TheJournal.ie One Year In

TheJournal.ie’s progress report for the Government: Social welfare

09/03/12 784 Views 2 Comments

Has Joan Burton kept the government’s promises of reversing cuts while keeping all baseline social welfare rates unchanged?

# social-welfare - Thursday 23 February, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Daily Fix This post contains videos

The Daily Fix: Thursday

23/02/12 2,828 Views No Comments

Your nightly round-up of the day’s biggest news stories…

# social-welfare - Thursday 16 February, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Daily Fix

The Daily Fix: Thursday

16/02/12 3,262 Views 1 Comment

Your evening round-up of the day’s biggest news stories, plus the bits you may have missed…

From TheJournal.ie Social Welfare

€645m saved through social welfare ‘control measures’

16/02/12 4,048 Views 100 Comments

Joan Burton says 982,000 individual claims have been reviewed, including savings of €60m from the ‘special investigation unit’.

# social-welfare - Wednesday 15 February, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Social Welfare

Tougher sanctions on way for jobseekers

15/02/12 7,526 Views 176 Comments

The Government is looking at ways to impose tougher penalty sanctions on jobseekers who do not take advantage of all employment opportunities.

# social-welfare - Thursday 9 February, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Rental Supplement

Joan Burton says rent supplement review a “positive” move

09/02/12 3,158 Views 17 Comments

Social Protection Minister says December review of rent supplement payments – which cost the State €503m in 2011 – was vital to reflect real rental prices but that ‘no-one will be left homeless’ by changes.

# social-welfare - Monday 6 February, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Welfare

Those on benefits do not have enough for ‘basic standard of living’

06/02/12 4,480 Views 135 Comments

A report being launched today highlights the difficulties of those in receipt of jobseeker’s benefit who do not have enough to meet their physical, psychological, spiritual and social needs.

# social-welfare - Saturday 4 February, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Moonlighting

Government “working day and night” to get people off the dole: Enda Kenny

04/02/12 4,318 Views 118 Comments

Speaking in Cork last night, the Taoiseach said the cabinet has launched “an internetional charm offensive” to improve the state’s reputation.

# social-welfare - Thursday 2 February, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Magda

‘Magda’ says Irish Independent story was ‘completely not true’

02/02/12 11,185 Views 93 Comments

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.

# social-welfare - Monday 30 January, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Opinion

Column: Interview? Put some trousers on, pyjama girls

30/01/12 9,937 Views 68 Comments

We’re very quick to judge, writes TheJournal.ie columnist Lisa McInerney, but it still stands that the dole office is no place for parading the middle finger to society.

# social-welfare - Friday 27 January, 2012

Pyjama Ban

Social welfare office ban on pyjamas for interviews noted in London Times editorial

27/01/12 7,544 Views 93 Comments

The Times of London has noted a growing intolerance of pyjamas after a social welfare office in Dublin banned people from wearing them.

# social-welfare - Thursday 26 January, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Pathways To Work

Unemployed people “are not statistics”

26/01/12 2,547 Views 34 Comments

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore hits back at Joe Higgins description of ‘Pathways to Work’ interviews for jobless as “Alcoholics Anonymous style” meetings.

# social-welfare - Monday 16 January, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Rent Supplement

Cuts to rent supplement will lead to evictions, say property owners

16/01/12 4,752 Views 71 Comments

The Irish Property Owners’ Association says planned cuts to rent supplement could also put mortgages into default.

# social-welfare - Wednesday 28 December, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Take 5

The 5 at 5: Wednesday

28/12/11 4,217 Views 1 Comment

Today’s 5 at 5: Cowen’s take on social welfare fraud figures, Betfair launches investigation into possible €25 million payout – and Twitter users are unimpressed with the Guardian’s Jedward editorial…

From TheJournal.ie Social Welfare

Cowen: ‘Strained finances’ the cause of rise in social welfare fraud reporting

28/12/11 5,957 Views 150 Comments

Figures have shown a huge rise in the number of anonymous tip-offs of suspected social welfare fraud in 2011.

# social-welfare - Saturday 10 December, 2011

From TheJournal.ie 9 At 9

The 9 at 9: Saturday

10/12/11 4,845 Views 20 Comments

The nine stories you need to know this morning…

From TheJournal.ie Social Welfare

Government expects to exceed social welfare savings target

10/12/11 2,951 Views 12 Comments

Targets for next year may now be revised in light of the savings made in 2011 so far.

# social-welfare - Wednesday 7 December, 2011

From Business ETC Budget 2012 This post contains images

Slideshow: Today’s Budget 2012 front pages

07/12/11 1,625 Views 1 Comment

From boosting the property market to fuel tax and VAT increases, check out what the front pages have to say about the Budget this morning.

From TheJournal.ie Budget 2012

Government “will revisit” Budget cut to disability allowance

07/12/11 3,406 Views 53 Comments

Enda Kenny says the proposal to cut disability benefit for young people by up to €111 per week will be reviewed.

# social-welfare - Monday 5 December, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Budget 2012

In numbers: the first half of Budget 2012

05/12/11 6,494 Views 43 Comments

A numerical breakdown of where the government has cut €2.2 billion in spending,

From TheJournal.ie Budget12

Child benefit cut ‘unfairly targets the most vulnerable’

05/12/11 3,182 Views 64 Comments

Larger families – who are already more at risk of experiencing poverty – will bear the brunt of reductions to child benefit, a charity has warned.

From TheJournal.ie Pensions

Number of PRSI payments to qualify for widow’s pension trebled

05/12/11 2,045 Views 2 Comments

The govt is increasing the qualifying number of PRSI payments for a Widow(er)’s and the Surviving Civil Partner’s contributory pensions from 156 to 520.

# social-welfare - Sunday 4 December, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Budget 2012

Child benefit cuts will target families with three or more children only

04/12/11 4,579 Views 81 Comments

The cut will not apply to all child benefit payments – only those for third and subsequent children, according to reports today.

# social-welfare - Friday 2 December, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Open Thread

Let us know: What would YOU do in the Budget?

02/12/11 4,248 Views 209 Comments

Ireland must find savings of €3.8billion next week. How would you do it?

# social-welfare - Wednesday 30 November, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Ireland

Almost a quarter of Irish people living in ‘deprivation’ – survey

30/11/11 2,777 Views 19 Comments

An annual CSO survey shows that 22.5 per cent of Irish people experience two or more types of enforced deprivation.

# social-welfare - Tuesday 22 November, 2011

From TheJournal.ie 9 At 9

The 9 at 9: Tuesday

22/11/11 3,788 Views 10 Comments

Nine things to know by 9am: Cabinet to finalise social welfare cuts, Europe seeks powers to put weak countries ‘in administration’, and Stephen King’s lowest literary ebb?

From TheJournal.ie CAB

Criminal Assets Bureau takings now over €133million

22/11/11 1,557 Views 5 Comments

The CAB handed more than €7million to the Exchequer last year, amid suggestions its methods could be rolled out across Europe.

# social-welfare - Monday 21 November, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Budget 2012

Fears mount over Budget cut to child benefit

21/11/11 2,197 Views 47 Comments

Labour’s Jan O’Sullivan has admitted that child benefit could be subject to cuts, despite warnings it could “push families into poverty”.

# social-welfare - Sunday 20 November, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Daily Fix This post contains videos

The Daily Fix: Sunday

20/11/11 5,200 Views 1 Comment

Catch up on the day’s main stories as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed…

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