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Jobseeker's Benefit

All time
Jobseeker's Benefit
Unemployed who worked 5 years or more before losing job to get €450 per week under Govt plan
10 Feb 2023
57.0k
47
Social Welfare
Proposed overhaul of jobseeker's benefit would directly link payment to previous earnings
7 Dec 2022
29.9k
34
Social Welfare
Warning over linking unemployment benefits to previous earnings
10 Jun 2022
31.5k
32
Social Protection
'Insanity': Criticism as unemployment benefit to be paid at post offices rather than online
7 Feb 2022
121k
121
The Morning Lead
ICTU: Scrap 'inadequate' unemployment welfare system and link payments to past earnings
15 Nov 2021
32.6k
22
Welfare
State pension and core social welfare payments to increase by €5 per week
12 Oct 2021
33.5k
26
pricey trip
Going overseas against travel advice will cost claimants Jobseekers or PUP payments
4 Jul 2020
139k
201
Self-employed
Government to go ahead with plans for self-employed to access jobseeker's payments
28 Jun 2019
17.5k
44
FactCheck
FactFind: How does Ireland's jobseeker's benefit compare to the rest of the EU?
4 Oct 2017
62.4k
118
Social Protection
Waiting times for social welfare payments vary from one week to 40 weeks
1 Nov 2016
49.7k
30
FactCheck
FactCheck: How do jobseeker's payments here compare to Northern Ireland?
11 Oct 2016
59.3k
108
Jobseeker's Benefit
Varadkar plans to raise dole payments depending on how long you've worked
25 Jul 2016
22.3k
89
Show Me The Money
Under 26 and on the dole? Labour has some good news for you - sort of
23 Nov 2015
34.7k
76
Social Welfare
'Dear Joan: Today, I sat in a dole office and cried to a complete stranger through a glass partition'
Anonymous
9 Jan 2015
39.8k
400
seasonal jobs
Signing off for Christmas work? Your dole will be restored 'immediately' afterwards
7 Nov 2014
14.9k
69
Live Register
Almost 3,000 extra young people were signing on last month
2 Jul 2014
10.3k
74
sit tight
Appealing a social welfare decision? You could be in for a long wait
16 Jun 2014
8.7k
6
Social Protection
Jobseeker payments expenditure to fall by as much as 20 per cent
23 Feb 2014
12.8k
24
error
Social welfare payments delayed by one day, affecting 32,700 people
16 Jul 2013
32.4k
139
Social Welfare
€669 million saved through social welfare control measures in 2012
8 Mar 2013
10.6k
78
Euroleaks
Government to hire private companies to find work for long-term unemployed
11 Jan 2013
11.1k
133
Unemployment
Small drop in live register figures - but unemployment stays at 14.6 per cent
4 Jan 2013
3.2k
24
Budget 2013
Dáil to begin debating Budget's changes to social welfare system
11 Dec 2012
4.3k
49
Social Protection
Burton asks for extra €685 million in social protection funding... for 2012
5 Dec 2012
4.7k
18
Budget 2013
Readers' Panel Part One: What are you expecting from Budget 2013?
4 Dec 2012
5.2k
21
Christmas
Burton: Unemployed who work over Christmas "should not have any concerns"
19 Nov 2012
10.5k
26
Welfare
Oireachtas committee considers access to welfare for self-employed
3 Oct 2012
6.0k
38
Benefits
Just 10-20 per cent of people better off on dole, says ESRI
16 Jun 2012
4.9k
64
Opinion
Column: Our welfare system is broken. We can fix it… by paying everybody.
Anne B Ryan
28 May 2012
1.1k
112
Welfare
Those on benefits do not have enough for 'basic standard of living'
6 Feb 2012
5.2k
135
Welfare
New welfare 'profiling' to determine when jobless likely to find work
24 Jan 2012
5.6k
83
Budget 2012
Changes to part-time jobseeker's payment will not benefit unemployed - INOU
6 Dec 2011
3.1k
24
CAB
Criminal Assets Bureau takings now over €133million
22 Nov 2011
2.2k
5
Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock
18 Jul 2011
2.6k
5
Unemployment
Unemployment rate increased in May, reaching 14.8 per cent
1 Jun 2011
578
8
Live Register
Unemployment down slightly as Live Register is unchanged
5 May 2011
589
2
Live Register
Unemployment stays at 14.7 per cent as live register rises
30 Mar 2011
533
Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
6 Jan 2011
870
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