Podcasts about welfare payments

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Gary Brennan chats to you and gets your opinions on the double social welfare payments that are set to be paid out this week!

The Government is being warned that the double welfare payments coming this Winter won't end the hardship of struggling Clare families. From next week, over 1.4m households nationwide will begin to receive cost of living lump sum supports announced in Budget 2025, such as double child benefit and a €300 fuel allowance. According to Saint Vincent de Paul, however, the failure to introduce the recommended living wage of €14.75, along with a lack of long-term measures will leave many families in the lurch. Clare SVP President Denis Carty says one-off measures are not the solution.

Some welfare payments are set to rise this month after indexation is applied, but advocates say the rates of many still fall short. Listen to SBS Sinhala podcast for more information. - ඔස්ට්‍රේලියාවේදී ලැබෙන විශ්‍රාම වැටුප සහ Jobseeker දීමනාව ඇතුළු සුභසාධන දීමණා රැසක් සැප්තැම්බර් මාසයේදී ඉහල යාමට නියමිත වී තිබෙනවා. ජීවන වියදම් දර්ශකයට අනුව මෙම දීමනා ඉහල දැමීමක් සිදුකරනු ලබනවා.

Brian Killoran, Chief Executive of the Immigrant Council of Ireland, responds to the Government annoucements regarding cutting welfare funds for Ukrainians.

A social welfare organisation is calling on the federal government to increase social security payments after its latest research found Australians on welfare are struggling to survive one of the toughest cost of living crises in decades.Research by Anglicare Australia has found in the past two years, housing costs went up by 22 per cent while food and grocery prices rose 17 per cent and electricity costs by 17 per cent. Executive Director of Anglicare Australia Kasy Chambers told SBS's Hannah Kwon that lower income households are being forced to spend a greater proportion of their income on essential goods.

Centrelink is not alone in having a push and pull between the investment required to get it right up front, versus the convenience of fixing things up later.We discuss the old chestnut 'fast, cheap, good - pick two' , and the less obvious costs of running lean - whether in pandemic preparedness, strategic policy capacity, workforce burnout.Finally, Danielle proposes an end to end definition of efficiency, that captures costs we move to other parts of government, or end up paying later on.ANAO Report on Accuracy and Timeliness of Welfare Payments (2023)The UK Covid Inquiry PodcastIntro grab from Sue Vardon AO Bonus Episode.Now for some appropriately bureaucratic disclaimers....Those of us in the employ of the State Government speak in a strictly personal capacity, consistent with the Public Sector Code of Ethics that permits public servants to promote an outcome in relation to an issue of public interest - in this case, the betterment of the public service.Nothing we say should be taken as representing the views of the Government or our employers.While we have tried to be as thorough in our research as busy full time jobs and lives allow, we definitely don't guarantee that we've got all the details right.If you want rigorous reporting on Robodebt, we recommend the work of Rick Morton at the Saturday Paper, Chris Knaus and Luke Henriques-Gomes at the Guardian, Ben Eltham at Crikey, Julian Bajkowski at The Mandarin, and of course, the Robodebt Royal Commission itself.Please feel free to email us corrections, episode suggestions, or anything else, at thewestminstertraditionpod@gmail.com.Thanks to PanPot audio for our intro and outro music. 'Til next time!

There have been suggestions that Minister Roderic O'Gorman might be open to social welfare style payments to support parents who decide to be stay at home parents. Should we welcome this, and should we offer parents' support if they decide to stay at home? Kieran was joined by Louise Bayliss, spokesperson of SPARK (Single Parents Acting for the Rights of Kids) to discuss...

Micheál Lehane, Political Correspondent, discusses what is coming up at cabinet today.

Do you agree with the reduction in social welfare payments for Ukrainian Refugees?

Should we cut social welfare payments for people convicted of rioting? 

Since the Russia - Ukraine war broke out in 2022, Ireland has welcomed nearly 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. However, with an already stretched housing sector, can Ireland continue to provide the same level of welfare to those seeking safety? Host: Fionnán Sheahan. Guest: John Downing See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joining Anton to discuss proposals to cut welfare payments to Ukrainian refugees in Ireland as well as the capacity to house those fleeing the war properly are Labour Party Senator, Rebecca Moynihan & Barry Ward, Fine Gael Senator and Criminal Barrister.

Listen to the SBS Sinhala radio interview with Vajira Jayasooriya, Accountant and Tax Advisor of the Small Medium Business Association of Australia from Brisbane discussing on the changes and the impact of welfare payments of the federal budget 2023-24 - මෙවර ෆෙඩරල් අයවැයෙන් සමාජ සුබසාධන ගෙවීම් වල සිදු වූ වෙනස්කම් මොනවද? ඒ වෙනස්කම් ඔබට බලපාන්නේ කොහොමද? දැනගන්න සවන්දෙන්න මේ SBS සිංහල ගුවන් විදුලි සාකච්ඡාවට

Listen to the SBS Sinhala Radio news bulletin on Thursday 11 May 2022 - සවන්දෙන්න, අද - 2023 මැයි 11 වන බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා SBS ගුවන්විදුලියේ ප්‍රවෘත්ති ප්‍රකාශයට

In today's episode we have the pleasure of Audun Fauchald Strand, Principal Software Engineer at NAV.no, Norway's Labour & Welfare Administration. We will be talking about NAIS.io, the application platform that runs on-prem, as well as on the public cloud. Imagine hundreds of developers shipping on an average day 300 changes into a system which processes $100,000,000 worth of transactions on a quiet week. If you think this is hard, consider the context: a government institution which must comply with all laws & regulations.

In today's episode we have the pleasure of Audun Fauchald Strand, Principal Software Engineer at NAV.no, Norway's Labour & Welfare Administration. We will be talking about NAIS.io, the application platform that runs on-prem, as well as on the public cloud. Imagine hundreds of developers shipping on an average day 300 changes into a system which processes $100,000,000 worth of transactions on a quiet week. If you think this is hard, consider the context: a government institution which must comply with all laws & regulations.

Higher earners could receive larger welfare payments if they lose their job under fresh proposals to link welfare payments to previous income due to go to Cabinet before Christmas. Dr Laura Bambrick is Head of Social Policy & Employment Affairs at the ICTU gave Ciara his reaction to this.

Changes being proposed to social welfare would mean people who earn more money would get higher welfare payments if they lose their jobs. The new system would see different welfare payments offered depending on the person's previous income or PRSI contributions. Kieran was joined by Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit TD and Dr Aedín Doris, Economics lecturer in Maynooth to discuss

Higher earners could receive larger welfare payments if they lose their job under fresh proposals to link welfare payments to previous income due to go to Cabinet before Christmas. Dr Laura Bambrick is Head of Social Policy & Employment Affairs at the ICTU gave Ciara his reaction to this.

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There have been suggestions made in the UK that people should have to work a minimum amount of hours to claim welfare. Should people who are physically fit and able have to work a minimum of 16 hours a week in order to collect welfare payments?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There have been suggestions made in the UK that people should have to work a minimum amount of hours to claim welfare. Should people who are physically fit and able have to work a minimum of 16 hours a week in order to collect welfare payments? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in Limerick outline what they want to see in tomorrow's budget and Colette Bennett, Economic and Social Analyst with Social Justice Ireland highlights key aims she feels must be met.

Ahead of Tuesday's Budget Justin asks Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys who will be helped and by how much.

Ahead of Tuesday's Budget Justin asks Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys who will be helped and by how much.

Today - 6 September, SBS Sinhala Radio current Affair Feature on The government is under intense pressure from higher increases to help offset Australia's rising cost of living - සැප්තැම්බර් 06 වන දා අඟහරුවාදා ප්‍රචාරය වූ SBS සිංහල සේවයේ කාලීන තොරතුරු විශේෂාංගයට සවන්දෙන්න.

Over five million Australians are set to receive the largest increase to their welfare payments in three decades. Recipients receiving an increase include those on pensions, disability, JobSeeker, parenting, ABSTUDY and rent assistance payments. Sunrise correspondent Matt Tinney has the details.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AT least a million Queenslanders, including pensioners and carers, are set to receive the largest boost to their welfare payments in decades later this month amid skyrocketing inflation, the government has announced. MORE than a third of Brisbane's flood-damaged ferry terminals remain shut, with some not expected to be repaired and ready to open until next year as worker and supply shortages impact building schedules. GROUND handlers used by major airlines including Qantas, Emirates and Etihad are set to strike over a new agreement they claim would see pay cuts doled out to experienced workers, pushing them below legal award conditions. ONE of Australia's top gynaecological cancer researchers has warned more women will needlessly die unless more funding is available for innovative trials of new therapies. For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription at couriermail.com.au.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pensions and social welfare payments are set to be benchmarked to the average industrial wage which should mean they rise with inflation. To discuss further Pat spoke to Nat O'Connor, Social and Economic Policy, Age Action Ireland and Cormac Lucey, Economics Columnist at Sunday Times Ireland.

Ian Guider is in for Matt this week and today he's joined by Christina Finn and Niall Collins to discuss budgeting. They cover everything from childcare measures to electricity costs. Catch the full chat by pressing the Play button on this page.

Yesterday we spoke about the idea of raising social welfare payments. Cllr Ken O'Flynn got in touch with us as he wanted to air his views as to why he believes we should raise these payments. Ken Joins Niall on the line now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yesterday we spoke about the idea of raising social welfare payments. Cllr Ken O'Flynn got in touch with us as he wanted to air his views as to why he believes we should raise these payments. Ken Joins Niall on the line now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

PBP and Paul Murphy are suggesting €350 PUP was decent payment and social welfare should be increased as just over €200 a week is not enough. Do you think welfare payments should be increased to €350? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

PBP and Paul Murphy are suggesting €350 PUP was decent payment and social welfare should be increased as just over €200 a week is not enough. Do you think welfare payments should be increased to €350? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We have a massive federal election coming up. But before we engage young people in some big policy debates, we have to go on a journey to understand what's at play. From The Daily Aus - creators of the viral news page, podcast and newsletter followed by over 330,000 Australians on social media - comes No Silly Questions. It's the podcast that will arm young people with everything they need to get involved in dinner table conversations ahead of the next federal election. The series will feature in-depth interviews with key politicians, experts, and advocates. We're obsessed with making sure young people have the right content before they get hit with a wave of pre-election news. No Silly Questions is presented by political journalists Billi FitzSimons and Tom Crowley, and produced by Joey Watson.Today's episode of No Silly Questions is brought to you by The Judith Neilson Institute - supporters of quality journalism, informed debate and great ideas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We have a massive federal election coming up. But before we engage young people in some big policy debates, we have to go on a journey to understand what's at play. From The Daily Aus - creators of the viral news page, podcast and newsletter followed by over 330,000 Australians on social media - comes No Silly Questions. It's the podcast that will arm young people with everything they need to get involved in dinner table conversations ahead of the next federal election. The series will feature in-depth interviews with key politicians, experts, and advocates. We're obsessed with making sure young people have the right content before they get hit with a wave of pre-election news. No Silly Questions is presented by political journalists Billi FitzSimons and Tom Crowley, and produced by Joey Watson. Today's episode of No Silly Questions is brought to you by The Judith Neilson Institute - supporters of quality journalism, informed debate and great ideas.

The department of social protection has been criticised for changing the way that people receive unemployment payments, which now have to be done in person again rather than online. Many have said it is humiliating to queue up at the post office to collect social welfare payments. Today we want to know what you think. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The department of social protection has been criticised for changing the way that people receive unemployment payments, which now have to be done in person again rather than online. Many have said it is humiliating to queue up at the post office to collect social welfare payments. Today we want to know what you think. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

كثرت مؤخرا خدمات تسهيل الشراء الفوري والدفع لاحقا لكن الخبراء ينبهون إلى أن هذه التسهيلات قد تبدو مغرية لكنها تحمل في طياتها مخاطر كثيرة منها تراكم الديون والتأثير على السجل الائتماني في حال التخلف عن سداد هذه المدفوعات.

In this latest SBS Hindi News bulletin of Australia and India: : The federal government justifies its decision to cut government support for workers and businesses; Victoria blames illegal long weekend get-togethers for a record number of new COVID-19 cases; Queensland's latest Coronavirus scare forces NRL grand final crowd numbers to be slashed and more.

ઓસ્ટ્રેલિયામાં 1 જાન્યુઆરી 2022થી અમલમાં આવી રહેલા સુધારા પ્રમાણે, ઓસ્ટ્રેલિયન પર્મેનન્ટ રેસીડન્સી મેળવનારા લોકોને વિવિધ સરકારી લાભો મેળવવા માટે ચાર વર્ષ સુધી રાહ જોવી પડશે. આ ફેરફાર કયા સરકારી લાભ અને સેવામાં લાગૂ થશે તે અંગેની વિગતો અહેવાલમાં.

ཨོ་སི་ཊོ་ལི་ཡའི་གཏན་འཇགས་སྡོད་མི་གསར་པ་རྣམས་ལ་གཞུང་གི་སྐྱོབ་གསོའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་བླངས་ཆེད་ལོ་བཞིའི་རིང་སྒུག་དགོས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་པ་དང་། ཨོ་སི་ཊོ་ལི་ཡའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་བདེ་སྲུང་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཁྲིམས་གསར་པ་དེ་༢༠༢༢ ལོ་ནས་ལག་ལྟར་གནང་འཆར་ཡོད་འདུག

Pensioners say the increase is just over one dollar extra a day, leaving many of Australia's 2.6 million aged pensioners struggling to pay their bills.

Social Justice Ireland has called for social welfare rates to rise by €9 a week.The think tank has warned a rise in poverty is "inevitable" unless there is a rise in core social welfare rates.It is also urging the Government to equalise Jobseeker's rates for young people under 26, and to introduce a universal state pension.The current job seeker’s allowance payment for those 26 and over is €203 per week. However for those aged 25, the payment is €157.50 and for those aged 18-24 it is €112.70. Would you support an increase? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Social Justice Ireland has called for social welfare rates to rise by €9 a week. The think tank has warned a rise in poverty is "inevitable" unless there is a rise in core social welfare rates. It is also urging the Government to equalise Jobseeker's rates for young people under 26, and to introduce a universal state pension. The current job seeker's allowance payment for those 26 and over is €203 per week. However for those aged 25, the payment is €157.50 and for those aged 18-24 it is €112.70. Would you support an increase? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is it time we drastically reduce the amount people can receive in welfare payments to encourage people to work? Niall Boylan brought this discussion up on Thursday afternoon. Do you think it would force people back to work? Or would it just make people’s lives harder?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is it time we drastically reduce the amount people can receive in welfare payments to encourage people to work? Niall Boylan brought this discussion up on Thursday afternoon. Do you think it would force people back to work? Or would it just make people's lives harder? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.