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Carers 'frightened and alarmed' as around 10,000 could owe back tax
Social Protection
Around 10,400 people on carers allowance could owe back cash, with these payments being under €1,000
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Social welfare Ireland: Full list of people who can qualify for €404 payment towards bills
Social Welfare
The Household Benefits Package helps with the cost of electricity or gas bills, as well as the TV licence
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International Protection applicants given €60m in daily allowances
Refugees
The figure soared by €25 million in 2024 despite only a small rise in claimants and the introduction of means testing last June
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Social welfare Ireland: Thousands can claim payment of up to €450 a week very soon
Social Welfare
The new Pay-Related Jobseeker's Benefit will come into effect from March 31 after preparations to roll it out over the past year
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Social welfare Ireland: How to qualify for scheme to pay for electricity, home repairs and more
Social Welfare
Even if you aren't eligible for other social welfare schemes, people can still apply for this one-off payment to help them pay expenses that you can't otherwise afford
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Social welfare Ireland: The four cost-of-living lump sum payments to be paid this week
Social Welfare
A total of 10 lump-sum payments totalling over €1.4 billion will be issued to social welfare recipients before Christmas to help with the Cost of Living crisis
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Government breached EU regulations by failing to means-test benefits for asylum seekers, minister admits
Immigration
Means testing was finally introduced in June and is expected to save the state €10.5m a year, with more than 6,000 international protection applicants having had their payments stopped so far
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Welfare cheats pocketed €138 million in benefits from department since 2018
Social Welfare
More than 37,000 cases of fraud or suspected fraud have been detected in the past six years, with most of the phoney claims relating to unemployment benefits
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Workers entitled to €2,540 payment with handy Irish social welfare scheme
Social Welfare
You will be eligible for the payment if you reach the requisite number of PRSI contributions
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Thousands qualify for €429 weekly payment as rules change on income
Social Welfare
To qualify for the payment, your income must be below a certain amount
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Full list of social welfare recipients who qualify for €1,850 grant being paid next week
Social Welfare
The non-taxable payment will be automatically sent to recipients on 6 June
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Warning issued to parents ahead of Child Benefit update due next week
Social Welfare
The government has warned that no one will receive a back payment due to the update coming into effect on May 1
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€88 million taken from estates of dead pensioners following reviews of assets
Pensioners
The Department of Social Protection has recovered monies paid to 2,159 deceased pension recipients after finding discrepancies in their schedules of assets
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Weekly social welfare payment to double to €450 for some unemployed people
Social Welfare
Cabinet approved a decision this week that will double Jobseeker's Benefit for some recipients
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All the social welfare changes that come into effect from today
Social Protection
A whopping €980 million in new social protection increases were announced in Budget 2024 that came into effect on January 1
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Calls for one-off €850 social welfare payment to be reinstated in Budget 2024
Budget
The payment was scrapped back in 2014 and there are currently 'no plans' to bring it back
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Heartbroken Irish parents hit with devastating blows over 4-year-old son and unborn baby – in the space of a week
Heartbreaking stories
Over Christmas, parents Sharon and Eoghan will be forced to leave their sick four-year-old in order to have an operation on their unborn baby
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One in 16 Irish jobs wiped out in just four days due to impact of coronavirus
Job losses
Bosses have been urged to keep paying workers €203 a week - and get the cash back from the State
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Budget 2019 Ireland: Christmas bonus will be fully restored at 100% rate for Irish pensioners and those on social welfare
Budget 2019
There were fears the Minister for Social Protection would scrap the bonus
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PRSI workers will be able to avail of subsidised dental treatment and 'free glasses' in Ireland
Teeth
Self-employed people and their spouses can also avail of these subsidised treatments for the first time
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Leo Varadkar says Social Protection Department has saved €468m by battling welfare fraud
Social Welfare
Almost a third of the savings, some €135 million, was generated from the jobseekers payment
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Dads get the perfect Father's Day present.... two weeks paid paternity leave
Paternity rights
New laws will allow new fathers to take up to two weeks off work any time within six months of the birth of their child
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Over 16,000 welfare fraud tip-offs made anonymously to the Government in 2015
Social Welfare
In 2008, just 1,044 anonymous reports were made to the department
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Operation DIRT: Dole fraud initiative nets €21m from welfare cheats
Social Welfare
Joan Burton said since October 2012, full recoveries have been made on 503 cases investigated under Operation DIRT
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