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Benefit claimants who are Danske Bank account holders due to receive payment on Monday 3 September have instead been paid today, Friday 31 August 2018. No-one will miss out on a payment and customers do not need to take any further action.  This...

Last week Social Welfare Inspectors from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection conducted approximately 1,000 inspections of employers in Dublin city. These inspections were undertaken across the city and in a variety of sectors....

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been forced to reveal the number of benefit claimants who have died while on Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). The figures show that around 100 people a day died while on the benefit. But the...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s government will tackle social spending in the next wave of its reforms as weaker than expected growth puts pressure on the budget deficit, the prime minister said on Sunday. Macron has so far largely turned a deaf e...

An image claiming that French, German, and Spanish maximum weekly state pensions are between double and triple those in the UK has been shared around 11,000 times on Facebook at the time of writing says: Full Fact. Claim: The maximum w...

This toolkit will guide and support in getting started with age inclusion in the workplace and includes a three-step process based on Look, Listen, Act. The population is ageing: by 2030, half of all adults in the UK will be over 50 years old. The wo...

Universal Credit supports you if you are on a low income or out of work. It includes a monthly payment to help with your living costs. This site will help you understand what Universal Credit means for you. If you want to go straight to making a clai...

Summer jobs help young people gain workplace skills that will provide a great platform for their future careers. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched a summer jobs campaign to make it easier for people to find summer and seasonal j...

Up to 6,000 vulnerable people will receive rapid specialist assessments and support under new measures in the government’s rough sleeping strategy. Backed by £100 million of funding, the strategy sets out the next steps towards achieving our aim...

From April to July 2018, the number of employed youth 16 to 24 years old increased by 2.0 million to 20.9 million, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This year, 55.0 percent of young people were employed in July, little changed from...