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Numbers receiving Covid-19 unemployment payment fall by nearly 12,000
Additional 2,000 people claim payment in Donegal following new restrictions
About 3,600 fewer people receiving pandemic unemployment payment
Minister warns impact of new restrictions in Dublin not yet reflected in figures
Almost 10,000 fewer getting Covid-19 unemployment payment
Number in receipt of pandemic benefit drops 64% from peak to 209,951 claimants
Number of people on pandemic payment falls by 5,100
Some 219,000 people now receiving PUP, a 63 per cent drop on peak in May
Sudden closure of Sisters of Charity homes take staff, residents, and nuns by surprise
Anxiety at moving elderly residents during pandemic and no redundancy for staff
Weekly costs in public nursing homes over 60% higher than private ones
Comptroller finds residents in private homes more likely to incur charges for additional services
Nearly 30,000 could lose pandemic payment if they do not confirm eligibility
Number getting Covid-19 unemployment benefit falls by 12,000 with 240,000 on Live Register
More than €3bn paid out so far under pandemic unemployment scheme, Minister says
Number receiving payment falls by 12,300 in past week, down 54 per cent from peak
Number of people claiming Covid-19 payment has fallen by almost half
Some 313,800 are claiming pandemic payment, down from a high of almost 600,000
More than 63,000 end claims for Covid unemployment payment
Humphreys says last week saw largest number of people returning to work since crisis began
Text messages about pandemic payment a ‘scam’, department says
Department of Social Protection advises public not to click or reply to the text
Number receiving Covid-19 jobless payment dips below 500,000
Over 26,000 people to return to work, according to Department of Social Protection
No temporary increase in weekly asylum payment during pandemic
Request for €20 rise during crisis from 40 organisations is rejected
Tax and the Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Your questions answered
The payment is taxed but you will not face a lump sum of a tax bill
Covid-19: Minister confirms review of special unemployment payment
Figures show 35,600 people who were receiving the benefit are now returning to work
Undeclared foreign property spells trouble with Revenue and Welfare
Q&A: Dominic Coyle: ‘I suspect your friends face a difficult and costly time’
Covid forces another 64,600 workers onto wage subsidy scheme
Revenue says over 50,000 companies have now signed up for emergency payments
Almost 600,000 people receiving Covid-19 unemployment payment
Minister says State may have come through worst of pandemic linked temporary lay-offs
Some 533,000 receiving Covid-19 unemployment payment
There are about 54,000 people who are receiving the payment for the first time
How to budget your way through financial realities of Covid-19
If you have a rainy-day fund start eating into it now
An Post to allow ‘temporary agents’ to pick up welfare payments
Concern over coronavirus will allow others to pick up on behalf of house bound people
The Irish Times view on the Government defiance of Data Protection Commissioner
Optics of State’s challenge to regulator of data-gathering multinationals are appalling
Q&A: What’s next for the Public Services Card?
Row between department and Data Protection Commissioner likely to go to court
Licence to bill: TV licence cash could go further
What’s the breakdown between TV, radio, online, governance, collection?
Doctors’ organisation in crisis as president and council step down
GP body admits financial difficulties as resigning team cites governance issues
Buy a property with your pension? Government says no
EU directive brings extra requirements. Why is there such opposition to it?
Department refuses to release details of public services card inquiry
Irish Council for Civil Liberties calls for publication of information in public interest
State is failing to provide interpreters for migrants at Intreo offices, survey finds
Staff often suggest people bring their own interpreter to appointments
Data watchdog investigating potential GDPR breaches in Government
Department of Social Protection allegedly interfered with role of its data protection officer
The 83,600 women still identified by the State as ‘wife’
Government is wrestling with unfairness on pensions, but discrimination is not yet in the past
More than 170 cases of ‘suspected identity fraud’ detected
Department of Social Protection says it made €530m in savings after reviewing payments
Budget 2019: Government urged to consider increase in PRSI
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection says rise in PRSI could be used to pay for Ireland’s welfare regime
Use of facial-imaging software for anti-fraud measures is legal, Minister says
Regina Doherty responds to questions on biometric data following order to change website’s privacy statement
Department ordered changes to ‘biometric’ privacy on website
Data protection officer ‘on leave’ when alterations made, says Social Protection
Biometric data reference in Government privacy policy was ‘in error’
Public services card photograph is ‘not biometric’, Department says
Tenders sought for facial-image software for public services card
Contentious card scheme costs State €60m to date, with over three million cards issued
Data chief rejects civil servant’s claim over public services card ‘hotline’
Tim Duggan tells committee that former commissioner ordered validation phone line
Government hits target to issue three million public services cards
Contract with Biometric Card Services ‘modified’ pending preparation of new request for tender
Government seeks expert support for public services card project
Tenders sought for technical and strategic support for project first rolled out in 2011
‘Plain English’ training sought for Social Protection staff
Sinn Féin TD says tender issued by department, worth up to €100,000, is ‘bizarre’
New laws tackling zero-hours contracts full of holes, says union
Mandate says thousands of workers put up with week to week income changes
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