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Budget 2018: All weekly social welfare payments to go up by €5

Elderly to see slight improvements in their situation, beyond the pension increase

Budget to take long-term perspective, says Varadkar

Decrease in prescription charges set to form part of financial package worth about €1bn

Single parents better off working part-time, says report

Minimum Essential Standard of Living study looks at welfare and minimum wage incomes

Court bid by man with alleged links to Islamic terrorism to prevent deportation

The man, who has been living in Ireland for several years, denies membership of any terror group

Striking Tesco workers reassured over family income supplement

Department of Social Protection says weekly tax-free payment not suspended

OCI election: Sarah Keane used to swimming against the tide

Legal expertise of the sole woman on the OCI board a potent asset in her bid for top job

Sporting bodies tell Dáil how they are running on empty

Oireachtas committee hears how quest for success is undermined by funding shortages

Lone parents will not have to seek work until child is 14 under Budget

Up to 60,000 low income families will benefit from changes to be announced

Government urged to restore sports funding to pre-crash levels

Federation of Irish Sport (FIS) highlights 26% fall-off in State funding for sport since 2008

Warning on distress over looming change to lone parent payment

Changes to One Parent Family Payment intended to activate recipients into labour market

One-parent payment: ‘I’m being stripped of my dignity’

Ashling Lowe (35) fears she will have to give up her job to get assistance under new rules

Tax breaks key to replacing loss of funding from alcohol ban

Federation of Irish Sport wants Government to introduce tax relief for sports programmes

Welfare spending on children falls

Report indicates growing food poverty and savings from cuts to child benefit

Minister for Children reviewing two childcare schemes

Fianna Fáil calls for tax breaks to lower costs for families

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