Budget 2017: Protecting the Most Vulnerable?

Month: October 2016

Budget 2017: Protecting the Most Vulnerable?

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Treoir believes that Budget 2017 fails to introduce specific measures to support lone parents to move off the one-parent family payment and to transition to sustainable employment and out of social welfare. In addition, Budget 2017 fails to review the operation of the Single Person Child Carer Tax Credit to make it automatically available to … Read more

TREOIR’s Pre-Budget Submission 2017

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Supporting Financially Vulnerable Families SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS Reinstate the supports for one-parent families in order to address the current high rates of child poverty. At a minimum, social welfare payments and the associated secondary payments should not be cut or reduced. Extend FIS to lone parents in receipt of Jobseekers Transitional Payment subject to certain … Read more