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Free dental, optical and aural care is available to more than 2 million people under the State treatment benefit scheme
Department of Social Protection
Can I get a State pension if I only start work here in my late 50s?
Recent reforms make State pension drawdown more flexible but also change how it is calculated
‘Misuse and abuse’ of State payment by some hosts of Ukrainian refugees, charity warns
Helping Irish Hosts calls for accommodation recognition payment scheme to be extended so Irish households can host refugees in direct provision
Breakfast clubs in Deis primary schools: ‘If it wasn’t here and you’d had no breakfast you’d be on the yard hungry’
Calls increasing for expansion of breakfast clubs to all Deis primary schools amid rising deprivation
Number of under 30s in receipt of disability allowance has doubled in a decade
Substantial part of the increase among younger people is attributed to mental health issues
Renters and households with children most likely to have income that doesn’t match needs - ESRI
New study finds Irish households on average need 45% of disposable weekly income, after housing costs, to cover basic expenditure
Selling new workplace pension is getting harder all the time
Department of Social Protection now looking at flat-fee structure to run scheme that disadvantages poorest paid
Looming launch of auto-enrolment pensions means no honeymoon for incoming minister
Companies have just nine months to prepare for mandatory workplace pension contributions from around 800,000 workers
Number of jobseeker’s allowance recipients sanctioned this year set to double
Payment reductions imposed on 9,000 people up to end of October compared with 5,200 for entirety of 2023, figures show
Search for auto-enrolment asset managers to start within weeks
Officials now plan flat charge on participants to run scheme which will hit lower paid people harder
First election poll shows it wouldn’t take much for the race to start looking very tight
Irish Times poll shows Fine Gael are clear front runners so far in this election. But the drop in Simon Harris’s and his party ratings will keep everyone on their toes
Supreme Court to rule on ‘systemically important’ carer’s allowance case
Decision could have profound effect on State’s obligations to carers of severely disabled children
Irish farmers describe use of imported Dutch cheese in school meals programme as ‘insult’
Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association says it has received complaints about use of imported Dutch cheese in school meals programme
€90 cut for unemployed people not engaging with jobs programme ‘common sense’ - Taoiseach
An unemployed person could be left with only €142 per week if they do not engage with department
Ukraine arrivals from next March would not be offered accommodation under new plan
Additional options include introduction of ‘maximum stay’ rule focused on exiting Ukrainians who have been in State accommodation for the longest time first
Double pension and child benefit payments and cost-of-living lump sums to be paid by December 3rd
Timing of the payments will likely fuel speculation around an early general election
New PRSI-linked unemployment benefit to commence in March, says Minister
Unlike Jobseekers, three rates of payment will be available to recipients under scheme, depending on their PRSI contributions
Pensions lobby group calls for auto-enrolment clarity in October budget
Department of Social Protection targeting start of scheme aimed at capturing 750,000 workers without pension plan in ‘early 2025′
RTÉ faces rising tax bill to settle status of hundreds of workers
Broadcaster set aside €21.7m to meet PRSI liabilities from bogus self-employment in the organisation, records show
Hundreds of cases of potential identity fraud uncovered by social welfare investigators
State has made savings of €526m through the review of more than 630,000 social welfare claims
Donohoe defends Coalition’s record as it breaks spending rule again
Government will make additional €1.2bn available for health service despite almost 10% cost overrun so far this year
Health staff reform plan to end ‘traditional 9am-5pm’ work pattern
‘Multi-use’ offices planned for civil servants to allow ‘best use of the State’s property portfolio’ under reforms linked to pay deal
Staff at disability advocacy service to ballot on proposals to resolve long-running pay dispute
Siptu and management at National Advocacy Service for People with Disabilities have reached agreement on a number of issues
Payments to 5,000 asylum seekers receiving daily expenses have stopped following means tests, says Heather Humphreys
Minister meets first people to avail of new free travel pass for persons medically unable to drive
Finance officials concerned about oversight of auto-enrolment pension scheme
Legislation holds planned new mandatory workplace pension scheme to lower regulatory standards than private sector rivals
Pension auto-enrolment: Call for companies to get six-month grace for landmark new system
Many Irish employers will struggle with the implementation of the upcoming system, staffing agency warns
India’s Tata Consultancy Services preferred bidder to build auto-enrolment pension system
Department of Social Protection confirms selection of Indian information technology company to build and run landmark pension system
‘Charter’ to help reduce youth unemployment ‘step in right direction’
Some 50,000 long-term unemployed to receive ‘personalised’ supports
Long-term unemployed to be given new ‘progression’ plan or have payments cut
People signed up to personal progression plans would have to meet Intreo employment advisers every two weeks
Means-testing of asylum seekers’ allowance risks ‘pushing families into poverty’, say support groups
Refugee support organisations question Government’s timing of announcement ahead of elections
Gardaí retiring from November will have to make ‘false declaration’ they are available for work - GRA
Department of Public Expenditure says it is ‘actively engaging with stakeholders to develop more streamlined process’ for those retiring under pension changes introduced in 1995
Early retirement: People would give up a fifth of State pension if allowed payment at 60, survey finds
Welfare rules allow deferral of State pension in return for a higher payment but survey finds greater support for flexibility to take pension early
Will inheritance cause a problem with my weekly disability payment?
Care is needed when planning to leave something to a person who is on means-tested social welfare support
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