People on low incomes are to have the amount of debt they can get written-off under insolvency rules increased to €35,000.

THE Government has admitted it is powerless to prevent companies such as telephone giant Talk Talk from giving employees just 30 days’ notice before closing down.

Minister for Social Affairs Seamus Brennan today pledged to implement a plain English policy in his department.

DEBT attached to ESB bills was yesterday highlighted as the major source of financial headache for the nation’s least well-off.

THE Government has been accused of inflicting unnecessary hardship on the poorest sections of Irish society by cutting €58 million in social welfare benefits in the recently published Book of Estimates.