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Labour Cllr Seán Ó hArgáin has urged families in Kilkenny to avail of the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance (BTSCFA) which is available to families on certain social welfare or other State payments to help with the costs of school clothes and footwear.

It is vital that those in need of the social welfare benefits and services receive such support as swiftly as possible, especially as the numbers of unemployed rise this year.

Kilkenny Sinn Féin representative Cllr Kathleen Funchion has warned that a failure to restore the Christmas Social Welfare payment will push those struggling to get by further into poverty and into the arms of ruthless moneylenders.

As Budget 2010 looms and fears intensify about how financially worse off the Irish citizen will be following its implementation, one area which needs to be policed more vigourously is benefit fraud. The State is losing hundreds of millions of euro each year through social welfare fraud.

Councillor Kathleen Funchion of Sinn Féin has said that cuts to social welfare were not merely unjust but were also the least likely way to reduce the budget deficit and would in fact push the economy further into recession.

Mayo Fine Gael TD John O'Mahony has called on Social Affairs Minister Mary Hanafin to provide emergency fuel allowance payments to vulnerable people suffering as a result of the bad weather.