Payment cuts ‘will cause more job losses’

CUTS to welfare recipients will have a knock-on effect on consumer spending and result in even more job losses and a further shrinking of the economy, it was claimed last night.

Main social welfare payments and one parent family payments all face weekly cuts of €8, it was announced.

People under 66-years of age will see losses of around 4% in their weekly dole money, bringing the main rate down to 2007 levels of €188.