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Mon 07 Jul 2008Dole payments into bank accounts to be scrapped
THE GOVERNMENT is to scrap paying dole payments directly into claimants' bank accounts in an attempt to curb fraud by foreign and Irish workers who have quit Ireland for jobs abroad after losing their jobs here. MARK HENNESSY, Political Correspondent reports
Under the change, which is to be announced officially today by Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Mary Hanafin, claimants will have to sign on at post offices weekly, rather than have the payments made automatically to them.
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