The Child Benefit system in Ireland is going to be changing and the total amount spent on it will be reduced over the next few years. There has been talk in the past of taxing Child Benefit or means testing it – but a report produced this week has recommended a two tier system of […]
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FIS
Family Income Support – Long Delays
There are currently long delays in the processing of claims for FIS (Family Income Support). The Minister for Social Protection – Joan Burton – has confirmed in the Dail that there are backlogs of 18 weeks for new claims and 19 weeks for renewals. At the end of October, there were 7,000 new FIS applications […]
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