Search Results for 'Unemployment in the United Kingdom'
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Application process under way for 6,000 free higher education and training places
The applications process for the Springboard initiative, offering free higher education and training for jobseekers, is now underway. In the month since it was launched, there were over 40,000 visitors to the Springboard web-page on www.bluebrick.ie/springboard and over 3,300 applications have been received.
Man claimed dole while working
A Knockmore man who claimed unemployment assistance while he worked as a lorry driver was before Ballina District Court this week.
Work for your money? — What’s wrong with that?
Well apparently it is not as easy as that and so when the minister for social protection Eamon O Cuiv announced this week that there were plans in the pipeline to get people to work for their dole money in the future — well let’s just say it wasn’t greeted with rapturous applause by one and all.
New O Cuiv initiative will require unemployed to do community work
Fianna Fail TD for Galway West and Minister for Social Protection, Eamon O Cuiv has anounced new proposals which will require 10,000 social welfare claimants to complete community work in return for their social welfare payments.
Social Welfare offices unable to cope with influx of claims – Ring
Fine Gael Deputy Michael Ring, spokesperson for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, has today claimed that Social Welfare local offices and regional offices are currently unable to cope with the influx of claims they are receiving.
Teenage jobseekers to be to seek training and education
Teenagers who have previously been in receipt of jobseeker allowance are to be incentivised into education and training opportunities with the new supplementary budget according to Minister John McGuinness.
Crisis in the dole queues, longer waits on the way — Ring
The Fine Gael spokesperson on community, rural, and Gaeltacht affairs Deputy Michael Ring has warned that newly unemployed people are being hung out to dry by the Government because social welfare offices in Mayo still do not have the staff levels to cope with the worsening unemployment crisis.
Entitlements and the self-employed
Q. I am a self employed individual and have my own business providing repair and maintenance services to individuals and companies. In recent months I have lost several large contracts and the business is no longer viable. I have two employees who have worked with me for the last 15 years. I have been told that my employees will be entitled to jobseekers’ benefit if the business folds but as the owner I have no entitlements. Is this correct?
