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# Jobseeker's Benefit

Last year
2023
Unemployed who worked 5 years or more before losing job to get €450 per week under Govt plan
All time
Proposed overhaul of jobseeker's benefit would directly link payment to previous earnings
Warning over linking unemployment benefits to previous earnings
'Insanity': Criticism as unemployment benefit to be paid at post offices rather than online
ICTU: Scrap 'inadequate' unemployment welfare system and link payments to past earnings
State pension and core social welfare payments to increase by €5 per week
Going overseas against travel advice will cost claimants Jobseekers or PUP payments
Government to go ahead with plans for self-employed to access jobseeker's payments
FactFind: How does Ireland's jobseeker's benefit compare to the rest of the EU?
Waiting times for social welfare payments vary from one week to 40 weeks
FactCheck: How do jobseeker's payments here compare to Northern Ireland?
Varadkar plans to raise dole payments depending on how long you've worked
Under 26 and on the dole? Labour has some good news for you - sort of
'Dear Joan: Today, I sat in a dole office and cried to a complete stranger through a glass partition'
Signing off for Christmas work? Your dole will be restored 'immediately' afterwards
Almost 3,000 extra young people were signing on last month
Appealing a social welfare decision? You could be in for a long wait
Jobseeker payments expenditure to fall by as much as 20 per cent
Social welfare payments delayed by one day, affecting 32,700 people
€669 million saved through social welfare control measures in 2012
Government to hire private companies to find work for long-term unemployed
Small drop in live register figures - but unemployment stays at 14.6 per cent
Dáil to begin debating Budget's changes to social welfare system
Burton asks for extra €685 million in social protection funding... for 2012
Readers' Panel Part One: What are you expecting from Budget 2013?
Burton: Unemployed who work over Christmas "should not have any concerns"
Oireachtas committee considers access to welfare for self-employed
Just 10-20 per cent of people better off on dole, says ESRI
Column: Our welfare system is broken. We can fix it… by paying everybody.
Those on benefits do not have enough for 'basic standard of living'
New welfare 'profiling' to determine when jobless likely to find work
Changes to part-time jobseeker's payment will not benefit unemployed - INOU
Criminal Assets Bureau takings now over €133million
Unemployment rate increased in May, reaching 14.8 per cent
Unemployment down slightly as Live Register is unchanged
Unemployment stays at 14.7 per cent as live register rises