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Brian Harris, Labour Party candidate in the Callan Electoral Area has accused the government of cancelling Christmas for pensioners and families dependent on social welfare payments.

Social welfare payments to 15 people in Athlone have been suspended and investigations carried out into over 100 cases, it emerged this week.

Mayo Citizens Information Service will hold an outreach on Wednesday April 22 at the Cosgallen Office, the Enterprise Centre, Airport Road, Charlestown from 9.45am to 11.30am. The service is free and confidential and a wide range of areas are covered including consumer rights, employment rights, social welfare, taxation and disability information. For further information contact Cosgallen CDP, Charlestown on 094 925 5070.

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.

The Athenry Environmental Network is holding an open day on its allotment scheme on Saturday October 3 from 2pm to 3pm.

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.

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.

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.

Cllr Kathleen Funchion has said that household debt for low income families had reached unprecedented levels in the aftermath of Christmas.