Welfare payments reduced for 11% of Meath JobPath participants for failure to engage 

JobPath aims to reduce the levels of long-term unemployed by selecting people, noted as being without work for an extended period of time, at random to enter the mentorship programme. Picture: PA

More than one in 10 people enrolled in the JobPath unemployment scheme in Meath have had their social welfare payments reduced for failing to engage properly.

Some 11% of that county's cohort on the scheme had their payment reduced in the 14 months up to March 2020, or 190 people all told.