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Little-known €130 social welfare payment explained - and how to qualify
Social Welfare
If you think you qualify but haven't received payment, you should contact the Department of Social Protection
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'Housebound' benefits fraudster caught ziplining in Mexico after claiming thousands
Benefit cheats
Wieland has made to repay over €26,000 she wrongly claimed between 2021 and 2024
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Major Christmas Bonus Payments update will affect 1.4 million people across Ireland
Benefits
The Christmas Bonus is paid to a wide range of people in receipt of specific welfare supports across Ireland
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All the cost-of-living changes coming in December from social welfare bonuses to bills
Benefits
Christmas is a notoriously expensive time of year, but there is good financial news for households across Ireland this December
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Benefits cheat mum ordered to repay €26k after Facebook posts exposed her
Benefits
Sara Morris, 50, who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2005, was jailed for eight months last July after exaggerating the extent of her condition
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Full list of 29 social welfare payments to increase in 2025 - see if you are eligible
Social Welfare
The government has confirmed there will be increases to 29 social welfare payments in 2025 - but it's not good news for everyone
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Full list of who will be eligible for new €450 social welfare payment as start date confirmed
Social Welfare
The new Pay-Related Benefit is due to come into effect next year and how much you receive will be related to your previous salary
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Two types of social welfare recipients may be entitled to payment worth up to just under €250
Social Welfare
The Partial Capacity Benefit is a scheme that helps people with reduced work capacity due to health issues, allowing them to return to work or self-employment and still receive a payment from the Department of Social Protection
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Social welfare: Major reforms could see changes to how payments are collected and more
Social Welfare
Moving the process back offline and into post offices would allow business to re-enter local networks, as well as making fraud harder to carry out.
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Joe Brolly blasts Boris Johnson and British government over benefits cut
Joe Brolly
A £20-per-week uplift to Universal Credit that was introduced at the start of the coronavirus pandemic ended on Wednesday
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All of Ireland's new social welfare benefits and Government money schemes you could be eligible for
Benefits
Eligibility criteria for the One-Parent Family Payment, Parent’s leave and Parent's Benefit, and the Treatment Benefit Scheme
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Up to half of applications for carers' allowance being turned down
Benefits
Labour Senator Mark Wall has provided figures to the Irish Mirror that show how hard it is to get access to the special welfare benefit
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Irish school secretaries protest over being paid just €12,000 salary and forced to claim dole
Schools
They have demanded an end to their 'humiliating' pay and conditions
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What is the Public Services Card? All you need to know
Public Services Card
As it stands, your personal data can't be shared between government organisations without your consent - many people believe that the PSC could change this in future
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Irish dad forced to recount baby's death in 'cold as ice' benefits assessment
Northern Ireland
'I had to relive every single thing from the day and hour my child was born until he died'
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Minister Regina Doherty confirms up to 120,000 carers to benefit from support grant this week
Benefits
Each person eligible for the grant is due to collect €1,700
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Dr Miriam Stoppard: Free TV licence vital for lonely pensioners
TV Licensing
Without TV, people of advanced age are so much more vulnerable to the stresses of loneliness which can have a terrible impact on the brain and body
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Miriam Margolyes calls for Government to keep free TV licences for over-75s
Miriam Margolyes
EXCLUSIVE: Call The Midwife star fumes that 'almost everything this Government does is wrong' as she joins Mirror campaign to preserve OAP benefit
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Anne Hegerty's life revealed from autism to love life as she stars in I'm a Celeb
Anne Hegerty
Anne Hegerty joins the I'm A Celebrity 2018 line-up of contestants in Australia - we take a look at her life and career before she found fame on The Chase
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Government apologises after illness benefit payments were stopped during changeover to new IT system
Benefits
Here's why you didn't get the money
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Co Antrim woman overpaid €160,000 in welfare payments guilty of benefit fraud
Benefit cheats
She will be sentenced next week at Belfast Crown Court
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Caviar-munching teenager who gets £2,000 pocket money refuses to sleep on sofa of single mum on benefits
Benefits
Angelina Green had never even used a hoover before the social experiment for Channel 5's Rich Kids Go Skint
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Great British Benefit Handout star buys Range Rover IN CASH after show helped him transform his home into a lucrative mini-zoo
Benefits
Scott Gavin turned his life around after being handed a years' worth of benefits upfront
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Benefits cheat reality TV star Chelsey Harwood faces prison because she refused to take bus to community service
Crime
The transgender model said she refused to "mix with scallies" on public transport - and has now been issued with a court summons
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