# Jobseekers Allowance
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Last year
2023
Jobseekers Allowance
More than €111 million in social welfare overpayments uncovered last year
31 Jul 2023
27.7k
64
Jobseeker's Benefit
Unemployed who worked 5 years or more before losing job to get €450 per week under Govt plan
10 Feb 2023
56.8k
47
All time
Social Protection
'Insanity': Criticism as unemployment benefit to be paid at post offices rather than online
7 Feb 2022
121k
121
Heather Humphreys
Jobseekers payments to return to post offices following lifting of Covid restrictions
26 Jan 2022
20.0k
18
PUP
No plans for rollback of cuts to the Pandemic Unemployment Payment rates
Updated
16 Nov 2021
42.0k
39
THE MORNING LEAD
ICTU: Scrap 'inadequate' unemployment welfare system and link payments to past earnings
15 Nov 2021
32.6k
22
Welfare
State pension and core social welfare payments to increase by €5 per week
12 Oct 2021
33.4k
26
draw the dole
New social welfare scheme promises 'breathing space' for unemployed artists
5 Jul 2019
27.2k
81
Circuit Criminal Court
Woman who committed €31,000 worth of welfare fraud sentenced to community service
30 Jun 2017
30.2k
51
Voices
'My Jobseeker's Allowance was cut to €40 a week - I can’t afford to go to interviews'
Anonymous
27 Nov 2016
14.6k
139
Social Protection
Waiting times for social welfare payments vary from one week to 40 weeks
1 Nov 2016
49.4k
30
young and broke
'There are lots of jobs available': Leo defends lower jobseekers' payments to young people
11 Oct 2016
27.1k
83
FACTCHECK
FactCheck: How do jobseeker's payments here compare to Northern Ireland?
11 Oct 2016
59.2k
108
Social Welfare
'Completely unacceptable': 21-week wait for carer's allowance claims to be processed
22 May 2016
37.1k
36
Show Me The Money
Under 26 and on the dole? Labour has some good news for you - sort of
23 Nov 2015
34.6k
76
Didn't happen
Joan denies an unemployed man was told to apply for 200-300 jobs a week
23 Nov 2015
21.7k
70
seasonal jobs
Signing off for Christmas work? Your dole will be restored 'immediately' afterwards
7 Nov 2014
14.9k
67
Employment
New law would force unemployed to upload CVs to job sites - or have their dole cut
7 Oct 2014
15.3k
105
Industrial Dispute
Social welfare staff are being told to refuse dole payments to 'locked out' Greyhound workers
19 Jul 2014
20.7k
106
Voices
Opinion: Yes, I'm unemployed but that doesn't make me lazy or incompetent
Adam Brennan
22 Jun 2014
2.3k
163
Social Protection
Jobseeker payments expenditure to fall by as much as 20 per cent
23 Feb 2014
12.8k
24
Jobseekers Allowance
Three Labour senators targeted over dole cut but they'll support measure
2 Nov 2013
6.9k
31
Voices
Column: The exploitation of young people has been cemented by this government
Andrew Byrne and Dan Hayden
17 Oct 2013
152
166
Euroleaks
Government to hire private companies to find work for long-term unemployed
11 Jan 2013
11.1k
133
Unemployment
Small drop in live register figures - but unemployment stays at 14.6 per cent
4 Jan 2013
3.1k
24
Christmas
Burton: Unemployed who work over Christmas "should not have any concerns"
19 Nov 2012
10.4k
26
Unemployment
Live register down by 2,000 in August, but unemployment stays at 14.7pc
5 Sep 2012
3.5k
45