Welfare payments may be disrupted by planned postal strike

Thousands of pensioners and other social welfare recipients are facing possible delays in their payments next week due to a planned strike by postal workers.

The Communications Workers Union decided yesterday to hold a one-day strike on Wednesday in protest at An Post’s decision to close its SDS parcel delivery service.

The company has warned that the action will shut down services on Wednesday and could also cause knock-on disruption to social welfare payments on Thursday and Friday.