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Strengthening workers by addressing past injustice for the fifth consecutive year
“This is a very meaningful week for all those who believe in the role of workers, thus it is important to remember Workers’ Day because the Labour Government has always had one goal: the...
Nearly one thousand, one hundred parents were paid €580,000 in Covid temporary benefits
The payment process has now been concluded and over 1, 100 parents of children under the age of 16 and children with severe disabiities have benefitted from the Covid temporary benefits. Over 1,...
Expenditure for Social Benefits for 2020 exceeds one billion Euro
For the first time in our country, a historic milestone in the social area has been set, after the global expenditure in social security benefits has exceeded one billion euro. The total...
Nearly one thousand parents were paid over half a million euro in Covid temporary benefits
By the end of this week nearly one thousand parents of children under the age of 16 and children with severe disabilities would have been paid the Covid temporary benefit due to school closures....
Benefits have now been extended to the parents of persons with disabilities 16 years old and over, who are unable to go to work due to school closures and the closures of other services
Further to talks between the Ministry for Social Justice and Solidarity, the Family and Children’s Rights, the Ministry for Inclusion and Social Wellbeing and the Commission for the Rights of...
The benefit for parents affected by the closure of schools will be paid once again
The Ministry for Social Justice and Solidarity, the Family and Children’s Rights is re-introducing a scheme aimed at paying a benefit to those parents whose children are under the age of 16 and...