A petition has been set up as residents and businesses along the Cork and Kerry boundary battle to save a village post office with a family link stretching back 85 years.

Joan Burton, the social protection minister, has defended fraud control measures after claims that most of the savings actually came from correcting mistakes by her department.

PLANS on implementing a single social welfare payment will be presented to the troika by the end of March.

THE Government revealed a new identity card designed to help combat social welfare fraud.