Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
This is important because a person with adult and child dependants in that employment would suffer a huge loss of income because he or she will lose the family income support as well. That going to finish presumably. People cannot get family income support if they are on jobseeker's benefit. They will lose the wages and they will go to flat rate jobseeker's benefit. The committee will have to look at that issue.
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