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Updated at 1.45pm
THE DEPARTMENT OF Social Protection has apologised after recipients of some payments didn’t receive them as scheduled today.
A number of TheJournal.ie readers informed us they didn’t get their weekly Disability Allowance payments today. One wrote that they woke up with no money in their bank account, adding:
Please make other readers aware, so they don’t have a mini heart attack when they see their accounts.
A number of other readers reported similar problems, while people have also been raising the issue with the Department and with their banks via Twitter.
It’s since emerged over 70,000 people are affected by the problem.
Delay
In a statement this afternoon, the Department said there was a delay in payment “to a number of its customers who were due to receive their social welfare payment in their bank account today”.
It says Bank of Ireland and AIB customers expecting payments to their accounts today will have their accounts credited this afternoon.
Ulster Bank is helping affected customers through its emergency cash fund, which customers can access by visiting a branch with a valid ID or by calling 1850 424 365.
The Department says that any Permanent TSB Customers affected should contact their local branch and advise them of the issue, adding “they will endeavour to facilitate customers where possible”.
The statement adds:
Customers of all other banks will receive their payment in their accounts tomorrow.
Apologising for the problem, the Department says that “any customer experiencing difficulties” as a result of the issue could contact their local community welfare service, adding:
The Department of Social Protection apologises for the inconvenience caused.
Disability Allowance is a weekly allowance paid to people aged 16 and over who have a disability. The weekly maximum rate is €188.
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See, this is what happens when you slag off the red line.
Ha exactly.
Yup… those red liners will be laughing all the way to the post office or the methadone clinic this Wednesday morning wondering just what exactly is this ‘work’ thing that their South Dublin counterparts are so concerned to be missing.
Red Line is South Dublin from Saggart to Houston Station. At least consult a compass when composing your slurs!
Autocorrect thinks it’s in Texas.
Very funny Drew … not.
Drew the south Dubliners have to “work” as you put it to afford the shed loads of cocaine every weekend!
Aye we do…. For taxes purposes though we’re working to afford our ‘columbian overseas foreign aid’ donation.
Running the red line through gang territory has now paid off. Its so used to gun shots puny lightening doesn’t frighten it
Was there not a stabbing on the green line recently????
Another blow in who probably doesn’t have a clue..
There was, my comment was tongue in cheek (written onboard a red line tram)
The new machine gun turret on top will have that sorted .
Funny too, Felix. We might be posting from the same train.
**looks around nervously**
@ Shane Walsh only spotting your comment now:
If using the red line since its inception in 2004 first for school & college, and now to go to work making in excess of 460 trips per year (allowing for annual leave/bank holidays) for the last 6/7yrs qualifies me as a blow in so be it
Good response to my early morning moany reply. Remind me to shake your hand at the Kingswood Stop in the morning ;) ;)
^^^now thats freaky!! :-)
hahahaha :) :) :) Happy Wednesday.
Shussss don’t tell anyone
Threw a fuse in her. Be grand. If she keeps blowing throw a bit of fag paper or a 10 mil bolt in her. Also be grand. Ish.
Its same problem as yesterday. They dont have the skills to repair. Any technical fault and they have to go to the foreign companies that built it. Makes you wonder why they pay local engineers? After last nights investigations they have just madw the problem worse by disabling the whole line.
Fragile wee thing that Luas….
This is obviously God’s way of telling liberal South Dublin to vote No! Subtle, but I get the message.
Not a bad thing, considering that Enda’s gang were lying in wait to ambush the electorate for a vote on something that they dont really give a s**t about.
It’s that Breda O’brien playing with the new testiment weather kit …
It’s running again now
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