# Jobseeker's Benefit
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Last year
2023
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 Welfare
Proposed overhaul of jobseeker's benefit would directly link payment to previous earnings
7 Dec 2022
29.9k
35
Social Protection
'Insanity': Criticism as unemployment benefit to be paid at post offices rather than online
7 Feb 2022
121k
118
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
pricey trip
Going overseas against travel advice will cost claimants Jobseekers or PUP payments
4 Jul 2020
139k
201
Self-employed
Government to go ahead with plans for self-employed to access jobseeker's payments
28 Jun 2019
17.5k
44
FACTCHECK
FactFind: How does Ireland's jobseeker's benefit compare to the rest of the EU?
4 Oct 2017
62.1k
118
Social Protection
Waiting times for social welfare payments vary from one week to 40 weeks
1 Nov 2016
49.4k
30
FACTCHECK
FactCheck: How do jobseeker's payments here compare to Northern Ireland?
11 Oct 2016
59.2k
108
Jobseeker's Benefit
Varadkar plans to raise dole payments depending on how long you've worked
25 Jul 2016
22.3k
88
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
Voices
'Dear Joan: Today, I sat in a dole office and cried to a complete stranger through a glass partition'
Anonymous
9 Jan 2015
38.3k
400
seasonal jobs
Signing off for Christmas work? Your dole will be restored 'immediately' afterwards
7 Nov 2014
14.9k
67
Social Protection
Jobseeker payments expenditure to fall by as much as 20 per cent
23 Feb 2014
12.8k
24
Social Welfare
€669 million saved through social welfare control measures in 2012
8 Mar 2013
10.5k
76
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
Social Protection
Burton asks for extra €685 million in social protection funding... for 2012
5 Dec 2012
4.6k
18
Christmas
Burton: Unemployed who work over Christmas "should not have any concerns"
19 Nov 2012
10.4k
26
Voices
Column: Our welfare system is broken. We can fix it… by paying everybody.
Anne B Ryan
28 May 2012
1.1k
111