Last Thursday (April 9th) a significant number of people were sent an email by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP) – otherwise known as Welfare. This email informed them that their claim for the Pandemic Unemployment of €350 a week had been cancelled or rejected..DEASP admitted, on Friday 10th, to sending out […]
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During the current Covid-19 crisis many people have become unemployed and probably many more will lose their jobs as the economy slows down. The Irish government has reacted quickly and introduced a range of measures to give financial aid to laid-off workers .We have carried out a comparison of the help available in Ireland compared […]
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The emergency COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment is a short term payment to help people out of work because of the coronavirus. There have been at least 40,00 applications . The first payments were due to go out to some people on 24th March to bank accounts. The next ones are due at the start of […]
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The Government’s Covid 19 emergency support payment for people who have lost their job was announced a couple of weeks ago . This 12 week payment is going to be increased from €203 a week to €350 a week . The value of the payment is equivalent to a gross income of just under €31,000 […]
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The Government has announced some changes to the rules for Illness Benefit and Supplementary Welfare Allowance to help prevent the transmission of coronavirus. Emergency legislation is being prepared to bring about these changes. The main changes are: You will not have to wait the current 6 days before you can apply for Illness Benefit. This […]
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