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Social Welfare

All time
Budget
Welfare increase, fuel hike and income tax cuts: Here's what's coming in Budget 2019
7 Oct 2018
79.9k
143
budget 2019
Sinn Féin proposes €400 second-home tax, 5% high-earner levy and pension hike
1 Oct 2018
57.8k
168
Social Welfare
Over 11,000 jobseekers forced to do exact same programme twice
Updated 28 Sep 2018
68.6k
112
budget 2019
'A cheap headline': Minister has no intention of scrapping welfare Christmas bonus
25 Sep 2018
32.1k
73
Social Welfare
Overhauling a dole system that 'discourages' jobseekers could help plug Ireland's skills gaps
30 Aug 2018
655
0
Bad Form
GPs accuse Dept of 'using vulnerable patients as fodder' in row over illness benefit forms
28 Aug 2018
13.6k
16
Social Welfare
People are waiting weeks for illness benefits due to an issue between GPs and Department
28 Aug 2018
30.3k
11
Social Welfare
Over 1,000 inspections carried out by Welfare to detect 'bogus self employment'
4 Aug 2018
40.2k
19
beast from the east
Extra week of fuel allowance to be paid this week to over 368,000 households after cold weather
12 Mar 2018
19.5k
50
Storm Emma
Welfare payments due on Friday will now be paid tomorrow
28 Feb 2018
24.3k
33
Court
Mother-of-four who stole €100,000 in fraudulent social welfare payments sentenced to 10 months
25 Jan 2018
32.3k
146
Delayed
Nearly 3,000 fuel allowance payments delayed after technical glitch
4 Jan 2018
10.5k
8
extra extra
Christmas bonus to be paid to more than 1.2 million social welfare recipients this week
27 Nov 2017
52.9k
202
thank christ
Election or no election, the Christmas bonus will still be paid next week
24 Nov 2017
30.5k
113
Festive Cheer
The Christmas bonus will be given at the start of December
10 Oct 2017
67.7k
86
Welfare Fraud
Man who stole €76,000 in welfare payments while running a successful courier business avoids jail
10 Oct 2017
41.0k
45
Childcare
Have kids? Here's what Budget 2018 means for parents
10 Oct 2017
82.9k
32
fiver friday
All weekly social welfare payments to increase by a fiver from March
10 Oct 2017
30.3k
132
FactCheck
FactFind: How does Ireland's jobseeker's benefit compare to the rest of the EU?
4 Oct 2017
62.4k
118
Overpayments
Six people were wrongly paid over €200,000 in social welfare
29 Sep 2017
39.7k
113
Extortion
Man with intellectual disabilities loses control of income after spending money on dating sites
5 Sep 2017
25.6k
23
wherefore art thou
It's his baby, so where on earth is Paschal Donohoe on the PSC?
3 Sep 2017
21.5k
102
PSC
Data Protection Commissioner calls for transparency over Public Services Card
30 Aug 2017
28.4k
153
moo idea
Social welfare recipients to earn extra cash filling dairy farm worker shortage
3 Aug 2017
31.0k
118
cis
Social welfare issues made up almost half of queries to Citizens Information last year
13 Jul 2017
8.1k
35
The Daily Poll
Poll: Do you think all social welfare fraudsters should be named and shamed?
6 Jul 2017
31.3k
157
Benefit Fraud
Change to Leo's campaign: Only those convicted of fraud over €5,000 to have names published
5 Jul 2017
21.1k
72
Circuit Criminal Court
Woman who committed €31,000 worth of welfare fraud sentenced to community service
30 Jun 2017
30.3k
51
On the rise
An extra 1,500 social welfare fraud cases have been reported since start of 'Cheats' campaign
24 Jun 2017
19.1k
103
stephen keary
Limerick mayor hopeful under fire for comments on immigrants claiming social welfare
16 Jun 2017
22.0k
132
CREATIVE IRELAND
Writers and artists will now find it a lot easier to get social welfare
12 Jun 2017
20.1k
57
Profile
From poisoned chalice to top of the table, is Leo Varadkar now destined to be Taoiseach?
2 Jun 2017
32.8k
101
carry the one
Leo's department said there was only one identity fraud case this year but there's actually been 11
31 May 2017
22.7k
67
Welfare Cheats
Most people support Leo Varadkar's welfare fraud campaign - poll
31 May 2017
20.6k
75
missing welfare payments
An Post agent who cheated pensioners out of their welfare with 'cock and bull story' avoids jail
18 May 2017
32.0k
35
Social Welfare
Government apologises for backlog in maternity benefit payments
10 May 2017
10.7k
19
name and shame
Every three months, the government will publish the names and addresses of welfare fraudsters
9 May 2017
32.8k
142
Welfare Cheats
Reports of suspected social welfare fraud double after launch of advertising campaign
5 May 2017
14.9k
83
The Daily Poll
Poll: Would you report a social welfare cheat?
18 Apr 2017
38.0k
127
Benefit Fraud
'Welfare cheats cheat us all': New campaign wants public to blow the whistle on welfare fraud
18 Apr 2017
31.4k
75
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