Sinn Féin denounces ‘shocking’ budget approach to income disregards for carer’s allowance
Government will ‘phase out’ means test over next four years, says Department of Social Protection
Department of Social Protection
How will welfare changes affect children in poverty, pensioners, single parents?
Budget 2026: Minister will be hoping children in poverty and disabled people will feel the greatest uplift – but will they?
Tackling child poverty and helping people with disabilities priority for Dara Calleary
Raising benefit rates, upping thresholds and removing barriers to work among measures
From childcare to welfare: five takeaways from Budget 2026
What are the headline measures in the Government’s €9.4 billion spending plans?
Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget
Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations
Scared of doing your household sums? Here’s how to get on top of it
Why an ‘admin night’ can help get your finances in order
Children need to grow up and have ‘the talk’ with ageing parents
A conversation around cash can actually prove a life saver if an unexpected illness or care requirement demands crucial interventions
School meals: How do French and Irish food for pupils compare?
Nantes pupils dined on melon, Gouda cheese, cheese tart - and that’s just the starters
Budget 2026 should raise social welfare payments to cut child poverty, says Dara Calleary
Minister for Social Protection says Ireland’s disabled unemployment rate is ‘just not acceptable’
Former TD arrested for allegedly claiming late parents’ pensions
Ex-politician suspected of failing to report his parents’ death to the Department of Social Welfare
How can a child just disappear without the State even noticing?
Search for remains Co Dublin boy – the second child to vanish in a year – raises concerns about welfare of vulnerable children during Covid pandemic
Some primary schools lose hot meals amid issues of procurement and food safety
Provider withdraws from several small schools over rules and viability
New customers to receive cash instead of energy credits in household benefit scheme
Electricity Association of Ireland at odds with Government over decision
Second tier child benefit could leave up to 100,000 worse off, tax strategy paper suggests
Report says such a payment would involve the replacement of some existing supports and leave some worse off
How can I find what my likely State pension will be?
Department of Social Protection will only entertain queries six months ahead of drawdown, but here’s how you can work it out for yourself
Hiqa made 28 referrals to gardaí over nursing homes in 2024, PAC told
Closure notices issued to 10 nursing homes in 2024 and seven have closed so far, committee hears
Businesses support auto-enrolment, department says
Launch date of January 1st will not be put back again, Oireachtas hears, while business costs said to dissipate over time
Rise in pensioners and disability payments swell welfare bill by one third in a decade
Social welfare payments are spiralling - from €19.9 billion in 2015 to €27 billion a decade later
Selling pensions in the summer sun
Government finally launches information campaign on how auto-enrolment will work as target audience is tuned out and on holiday
Rising number of neurodivergent children on disability payments prompts welfare dependency fears
Number receiving domiciliary care allowance up by as much as 46% in some areas over five years
Mixed messages on State pension entitlement from two offices in same Government department
The Department of Social Protection says you do not qualify for voluntary purchase of PRSI but you are separately being offered the right to buy that PRSI
‘It feels like home to me’: Mr Price staff demonstrate value of employing disabled people
Ireland has ‘one of the lowest employment rates’ in Europe for people with disabilities, which is ‘just not acceptable’, says Minister
Appeals against initial refusal of Domiciliary Care Allowance successful 60% of time
A third of families who applied for the payment were turned down
Legislation to extend rent pressure zones to entire country to be rushed through Dáil and Seanad
Emergency law will mean remaining 55 out of 166 electoral areas to become RPZs this month
Upgrade of power system could spark €83 yearly increase in household electricity bills
Government should consider energy credits to help households struggling with costs, Electricity Association of Ireland says
Department of Social Protection fined €550,000 over facial scans
Department also ordered to come up with valid lawful basis for the use of facial scans and facial matching software for registration of Public Services Cards
At a time when the boom is even boomer, this statistic should mortify us
The stark fact is that there are students sitting Junior and Leaving Cert exams today who went to bed hungry last night
Irish Life, Amundi and BlackRock picked to run Ireland’s auto enrolment pot
Ireland’s auto-enrolment scheme to begin in January
Social welfare fraud does not necessarily die with you
Executors have a legal duty to notify Department of Social Protection if they understand there is money owing to it
Bringing staff back to office more often will hurt productivity, union conference hears
Leadership of Civil Service union instructed to resist changes to current arrangement
Officials warned of ‘uncertainty’ in housing completions outlook
Internal Department of Housing report set out 10 selected 2024 forecasts, with all but two below 40,000
New unemployment benefit is up to €450 a week - but will you pay tax on it?
Updated Jobseeker’s Benefit will be paid on the basis of your previous salary - though the amount will reduce over its 39-week duration
Four in five workers in Ireland not aware of State’s auto-enrolment pension details
Scheme will capture up to 800,000 workers between ages of 23 and 60 and earning more than €20,000 who are not currently part of a pension plan
Will paying voluntary UK national insurance cancel out my PRSI payments?
Confusion over conversation with Department of Social Protection leaves reader worried about future of their Irish state pension
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