Unemployment benefits are top of the wish list for the self-employed
However, the head of ISME says the government needs to show some leadership on the issue.
View ArticleSelf-employed workers' rights were on the back burner for years, so why the...
Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar wants to know what benefits self-employed workers want.
View ArticleIreland has the highest rate of young people receiving benefits across 35...
A recent report compared and measured the experience of youth across OECD member states.
View ArticleThe EU wants to tighten rules on claiming benefits in a different country
Critics say the current rules are an incentive for so-called benefits tourism.
View ArticleJump in reports of people allegedly working and claiming social welfare
The Department of Social Protection received over 20,000 reports of welfare fraud from members of the public up to the end of November.
View ArticleSelf-employed would 'pay more tax if they got extra benefits in return'
Leo Varadkar said that the results of the survey carried out by his department would inform Budget 2018.
View ArticlePoll: Would you inform on your neighbours if you suspected they were welfare...
Nearly 20,000 people reported suspicious behaviour last year.
View Article'Snot-nosed, hostile, passive aggressive': Complaints about staff at Dublin...
Details of complaints were released to TheJournal.ie under the Freedom of Information Act.
View ArticleMuch-delayed IT system to see Affordable Childcare Scheme launch pushed back...
The Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) has declined to provide an estimate as to when the ACS, originally slated for September 2017, will be able to officially launch.
View ArticleMinister says it's 'absolutely deadly' that more people have availed of free...
Regina Doherty said thereād been a fourfold increase in the number of claims for free treatment benefits.
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