Christy Keogh had told the Probation Service that the social welfare fraud was a 'victimless crime'

Updated regulations will include increasing the time afforded to an appellant to make an appeal from 21 days at present to 60 days

The payment would help people avoid a 'cliff edge' drop in income upon losing their job

The payment will be paid to over 630,000 families across the country

Kerry carer Claire Healy has exceeded the income threshold for the scheme due to her receipt of the carer's payment

The net value of overpayments under the scheme was estimated at 8%, which the Comptroller and Auditor General characterised as 'high'

Increased social welfare payments have been confirmed, but an increase of €20 has been ruled out

On clothing, €720,474 was paid out last month in response to 5,093 people who sought help, a 900% increase in comparison to August 2021.

The number of new applications this year so far is 39,500, with the application process open until September 30

Increase needed to keep pace with high inflation and spiralling costs, says SVP

The total number of Ukrainian refugees coming into the country so far is 30,343 with 21,277 seeking accommodation from the State

Donal O’Callaghan was collecting his dead father's pension for 33 years. His father, in turn, collected his dead wife's pension for seven years

Poverty is a vortex that is always swirling — some of us dance around its edges daily, others live far from its precipice

The Government is also under pressure to increase the minimum wage and set out a timeline for the introduction of a living wage

ESRI outlines to Oireachtas committee how an indexation could be implemented in Ireland

Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys said the move would create more businesses for branches, but would also help tackle social welfare fraud

Report into the pandemic unemployment payment found one-fifth of randomly chosen claims did not meet criteria for payment

With one in four children living in deprivation, we can do better

Long-term recipients of the PUP will also receive the bonus

Donal O’Callaghan has admitted to carrying out a €1 million social welfare scam over a period of 33 years

Judge Aylmer agreed to give her a year to pay the money back, because of what he said were "exceptional circumstances"

The accused man was claiming pensions for his mother and father when they were both dead

Will the new statutory sick pay scheme be in addition to, or part of, the existing company sick pay scheme?

Increased spending on health and welfare are among the measures set to be announced in today's budget.

The investigation arose from ongoing multi-agency cooperation between the departments which identified the suspected abuses

A number of checks were carried out in July 2020, March 2021 and July 2021, which resulted in tens of thousands of claims being stopped

New measures will see the Decisions Advisory Office monitor successfully appealed decisions and also arrange for periodic reviews.

The Tánaiste ruled out a signficant increase in employer PRSI, though

She was initially entitled to the carer’s allowance when she lived in Cork but continued claiming it after leaving for the UK while her son cared for his grandmother

Leo Varadkar acknowledged prices were rising and said there would be a welfare package to counteract the soaring cost of living

Leo Varadkar, Simon Coveney and Paschal Donohoe also apologised this morning to Fine Gael members over the Zappone controversy

The inclusion of all mortgage payments in assessments for social welfare has made it harder for victims to stay living in the family home, writes Louise Bayliss

The woman, speaking anonymously, said the behaviour was intimidating and included requests for her children's baptismal certs and questions about old social media posts

As well as this, scam phone calls continue to be made claiming to be from an official of the department. 

State must look at base rate of social welfare and a raft of other changes to reduce consistent poverty to 2%, says minister

The Benefit Payment for 65-year-olds will be worth €203 a week, and is designed to help those who have to retire at 65, but can’t receive the state pension until they are 66

That includes some €20.3m in suspected cases of welfare fraud

I’m writing because I received a letter from the HSE on Saturday, December 19. It is a letter looking to review my medical card. I’m a lone parent of two children, a full-time carer to one of them who is home from school since early March last year.

 A man who fraudulently claimed over €65,000 in social welfare payments and was detected using facial-imaging technology has been given a three and half year suspended sentence.

Fear of retribution is contributing to a low number of complaints against social welfare inspectors, according to experts in the sector.

The system of social welfare inspection leaves mothers in receipt of single-parent payments vulnerable to abuse of power, with unannounced visits and searches of personal possessions, writes Political Correspondent Aoife Moore

Social welfare payments will be paid weekly once more from next month, Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys has said. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, weekly social welfare payments were changed to a fortnightly schedule from late March.

Implementation of a new illness benefit IT system is the reason for the big spike in overpayments

Postmasters are warning that coronavirus is continuing to have a very serious negative impact on transactions in post offices, and by extension cash spending in local economies.