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It represents a 63% increase on the number of applications received for the same period last year.

‘Real hardship’ has been caused by Community Welfare Clinics closing across Laois, it has been claimed in the Dáil. Laois Offaly TD Brian Sta...

By Joe Barrett Local Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley said that Community Welfare Officers held clinics in Mountmellick, Mountrath, Rathdowney and Graiguecullen for…

The Minister for Social Protection is coming under increasing pressure to resolve what has been described as “frightening” wait times for the processing of emergency social welfare payments.

Sinn Féin TD for Carlow-Kilkenny Kathleen Funchion has warned that the government is failing people who need emergency social welfare payments, amid seve...

Sinn Féin TD for Kildare South Patricia Ryan has warned that the government is failing people who need emergency social welfare payments.

Sinn Féin’s Claire Kerrane has called the timeframe as ‘frightening’.

The Government has provided funding of €45.75 million for the additional needs payment this year.

Sinn Féin’s Social Protection, Claire Kerrane says people should be able to apply for the payment online, rather than by post or in person.

The number of applications has been rising month-on-month in light of the cost-of-living crisis.