Department Of Social Welfare

I’m in my 40s and thinking of college next year. Should I apply now?

CAO applicants required to submit extra paperwork should start preparing now

‘I might be crazy’: The people who set up new businesses during Covid

In an already chaotic year, these hardy souls started new businesses amid a pandemic

More than 30,000 passport applications to be processed

Passport office drastically curtailed services as staff diverted to pandemic tasks

Coronavirus: Ireland is at a ‘delicate and critical point’

High level of compliance with travel restrictions over weekend - official

Economy could go into recession if crisis not brought ‘under control quickly’

Davy Stockbrokers warns Irish economy could shrink in 2020 if outbreak is prolonged

Exceptional needs payments soar by close to 70%

Focus Ireland says increase in figures shows how tough things are getting for some people

Regulator issues enforcement notice on public services card project

Move is likely to be the first salvo in a lengthy legal battle between the Data Protection Commissioner and Regina Doherty’s department

True Christianity means speaking out against populism and extremism

Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer died 75 years ago resisting Nazi Germany

Pay for tens of thousands delayed after Ulster Bank glitch

Bank says the issue has been resolved and apologises to customers that were affected

Public Services Card debacle headed for legal slapdown at our expense

Ireland has been here before, and it seems the State took nothing from the lesson

State will not learn from Public Services Card fiasco

Net Results: Apart from data abuse, card cost €60m but detected just €2m in welfare fraud

Data commissioner’s ruling lifts the veil from Public Services Card

The PSC has divided opinion, but Helen Dixon’s decision is clear: it breaches privacy

Irish man handed over to UK authorities over fine for tax evasion

Daniel O’Connell owes €13 million including interest on original bill for £6.3 million

Ugly, dated Dublin: Learning to love our concrete jungle

Ellen Rowley is rediscovering the beauty of some of the city’s once-disliked buildings

Former social worker acquitted of nine counts of deception

State had alleged defendant collected children’s allowance from birth mother

Former Ceann Comhairle Séamus Pattison dies aged 81

Labour leader pays tribute to ‘great friend and colleague’

Payments to landlords surge as social housing scheme rolled out

Dublin accounts for highest payouts as State rental subsidy costs €142 million in 2017

Tender for childcare IT system ‘runs to 1,000 pages’

Minister says firms must administer affordable childcare scheme until September 2019

Did you know there was an unused theatre under Busáras?

The lost theatres of Dublin revealed

Man who claimed dead mother’s pension for 16 years jailed

Brian Bobey (64) admitted stealing almost €160,000 between 1997 and 2013

Man admits claiming dead mother’s pension for 16 years

None of the €158,726 claimed between 1997 and 2013 has been repaid, court heard

Fears that social welfare policy making young adults homeless

Jobseeker’s Allowance for under-26s much lower than standard payment of €193 a week

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