Welfare benefits cut for 11,000 people who failed to engage with jobseekers services

'Jobseekers who do not engage with the Intreo employment service... can have their jobseeker’s payment reduced and subsequently be disqualified from their payment for up to nine weeks.' File picture

Over 11,000 people saw their social welfare rates reduced last year for failing to engage with employment services.

The Government has been cracking down on people in receipt of unemployment benefits for not attending meetings with the Department of Social Protection or engaging with employment support schemes.