Dole 'summer bonus' .. are they for real?

Better Idea, try stop with the nonsense 🙄

Unfortunately despite the facts, The Departments own reporting, anecdotal evidence, trying to explain and indeed common sense, there will remain those who think Ireland is awash with SW cheats, Free money is thrown at people and the admin of our SW system is a Basket case.

Lol, caught out so many times and yet, still in Denial, you've actually been on my ignore list for quite some time but I do get a slight bit of amusement (only slight) at some of your extraordinary & bizzare contributions. Not at all surprising you turned up on this Thread .

Not quite , just hard to forget some of your contributions.

I know four adults of working-age on long-term welfare.

2x JSA, 2x DA

JSA1: definite fraud, never looks for work, seems to never be challenged, is busy with a nixer, earns maybe 40k gross, has received 100,000 in student grants, drives an AUDI Q5.

DA1 is wife of JSA1, had cancer years ago, is not disabled in my opinion, but manages to get DA

JSA2: I'm not so sure here, nice fella, has had problems with drink, great golfer, handicap = 2

DA2 has a mild mental illness, has worked in the past, but wouldn't be great in holding down a job

For three of them it's a lifestyle choice, one has a mild mental illness / awkward / difficult to employ.

You could argue that one, maybe two, of the four are genuine.

Now, I'm not unusual, so this scenario must be repeated in every town. So I suggest (buy obviously can't prove) that tens of thousands of working-age adults should not be on welfare.

Now, this is not the same as fraud. JSA1 is outright fraud, as the nixer is not declared, but the other three are not really defrauding the system.

It's just that they should not be on these schemes, it's not fraud, it's more softness by the system and politicians.

...so most if not all of those cases are clearly dealing with complex psychological issues, as some studies have already shown.....

Not a word of a lie.

I am related to him.

I have not reported him.

In my local that's all they do be talking about..

How much is the 208 Jobseekers being raised by, and when.

DA is the holy grail of social welfare. Plenty of people try to get it, and fail.

I know a guy who gets a burger allowance. That's what he calls it.

Extra SW payment, purpose being to take his kid out for a weekly meal.. he's separated.

The number of thanks for the OP reflect the extreme right wing bias of this website in recent years.

Youse obviously aren't too busy in your jobs, if you have time to be posting far right agitprop on the net. If I was your boss, I'd fire most of ye for stealing my time.

There is no such thing as dole, it is called jobseekers allowance or jobseekers benefit.

All welfare allowances should be significantly increased by 25% or so. They have not kept pace with inflation particularly in recent years. One exception is the old age pension which should be means tested. Many wealthy pensioners get it but don't need it. Of course the latter will never happen as all the main political parties are beholden to the elderly, the most selfish and self-interested generation, who demanded the country was locked down for two years due to their neurotic self-obsession.

IF there are so many jobs, explain to me why I am not even getting to the interview stage. I am a qualified finance professional with a lot of experience. I am being serious here, genuinely struggling to find employment. I think possibly I am viewed as too old but I am only 48.

Yes, the MNC's who hardly pay any tax when they should be paying billions, plus the farmers with their multi-billion welfare scheme called CAP (or whether its successor is called, I forget). But you don't mean those, do you, French Toast? You prefer picking on easy targets.

I would oppose this, speaking as someone who would have benefited from it (formerly on high income now on jobseekers). Reducing benefit for the long term unemployed is the opposite of an incentive to them to get jobs, it is more likely to act as an incentive for them to either turn to crime or go on disability. Long term unemployed in some cases have significant criminal records, I am not defending it but in some cases even if they have reformed their ways they struggle to get an employer to give them a break.