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Social Welfare
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Storm Emma
Welfare payments due on Friday will now be paid tomorrow
28 Feb 2018
24.3k
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Court
Mother-of-four who stole €100,000 in fraudulent social welfare payments sentenced to 10 months
25 Jan 2018
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Delayed
Nearly 3,000 fuel allowance payments delayed after technical glitch
4 Jan 2018
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extra extra
Christmas bonus to be paid to more than 1.2 million social welfare recipients this week
27 Nov 2017
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thank christ
Election or no election, the Christmas bonus will still be paid next week
24 Nov 2017
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Festive Cheer
The Christmas bonus will be given at the start of December
10 Oct 2017
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Welfare Fraud
Man who stole €76,000 in welfare payments while running a successful courier business avoids jail
10 Oct 2017
41.0k
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Childcare
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10 Oct 2017
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fiver friday
All weekly social welfare payments to increase by a fiver from March
10 Oct 2017
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FACTCHECK
FactFind: How does Ireland's jobseeker's benefit compare to the rest of the EU?
4 Oct 2017
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Overpayments
Six people were wrongly paid over €200,000 in social welfare
29 Sep 2017
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Extortion
Man with intellectual disabilities loses control of income after spending money on dating sites
5 Sep 2017
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wherefore art thou
It's his baby, so where on earth is Paschal Donohoe on the PSC?
3 Sep 2017
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PSC
Data Protection Commissioner calls for transparency over Public Services Card
30 Aug 2017
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moo idea
Social welfare recipients to earn extra cash filling dairy farm worker shortage
3 Aug 2017
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cis
Social welfare issues made up almost half of queries to Citizens Information last year
13 Jul 2017
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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
21.0k
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Circuit Criminal Court
Woman who committed €31,000 worth of welfare fraud sentenced to community service
30 Jun 2017
30.2k
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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
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CREATIVE IRELAND
Writers and artists will now find it a lot easier to get social welfare
12 Jun 2017
20.0k
57
Profile
From poisoned chalice to top of the table, is Leo Varadkar now destined to be Taoiseach?
2 Jun 2017
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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
22.6k
62
Welfare Cheats
Most people support Leo Varadkar's welfare fraud campaign - poll
31 May 2017
20.5k
72
missing welfare payments
An Post agent who cheated pensioners out of their welfare with 'cock and bull story' avoids jail
18 May 2017
31.9k
35
Social Welfare
Government apologises for backlog in maternity benefit payments
10 May 2017
10.7k
18
name and shame
Every three months, the government will publish the names and addresses of welfare fraudsters
9 May 2017
32.8k
138
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
123
Benefit Fraud
'Welfare cheats cheat us all': New campaign wants public to blow the whistle on welfare fraud
18 Apr 2017
31.3k
75
Computer Says No
Thousands of families to lose out on money for childcare as Revenue can't give data to government
12 Apr 2017
29.0k
73
shopping spree
'Any young girl on social welfare like me would have done what I did'
4 Apr 2017
73.2k
155
Ghost Estates
Investigation: What is Nama doing to help increase social housing supply?
30 Jan 2017
16.1k
25
family visit
Ireland's maternity benefit now helps migrants who want to travel home
30 Jan 2017
27.0k
32
Looking for a home
'It's soul-destroying, like going for a job interview once a week and every time you don’t get it'
30 Jan 2017
31.3k
28
Social Welfare
Varadkar says lone parents can earn more under measure that kicks in today
5 Jan 2017
25.9k
63
Fraud
Jump in reports of people allegedly working and claiming social welfare
22 Dec 2016
19.2k
58
Christmas Bonus
Social welfare Christmas bonus for 1.2 million people to be paid this week
28 Nov 2016
41.5k
150
Social Welfare
'Utterly appalling': Anger expressed at waiting times for carer's allowance claims
13 Nov 2016
10.3k
10
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