Over the Easter holidays, there will be some changes to welfare benefits and state pension payment arrangements. Post Offices will be open until 1pm on Good Friday 29th March 2024Post Offices will be closed on Saturday 30th March and Easter Monday 1st April 2024 Banks will be closed on Friday 29th March and Monday 1st […]
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When the Irish banking crisis began – many of the 500,000 people in the UK with savings in the UK Post Office were probably getting worried about the safety of their deposits. This is because the savings accounts offered by the Post Office in the UK are operated by The Bank of Ireland . At […]
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These days – with online banking and ATMs – less people are using their bank branches so the bank holiday dates are probably not as important as they used to be. For Christmas 2014 Bank Holidays – See Here For your information here are the details of the opening times of Irish Banks over the […]
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Payment of Property Tax by installments at Post Offices sounds like a good idea for some people. There are many home-owners on pensions or low incomes that like to pay bills in smaller installments . Many elderly people use a Post Office every week to pick up their pension – and the Post Office is […]
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Next week (28th March ) the Eligible Liabilities Guarantee is ending – this is the one that covers most deposits over €100,000. We wrote about the possible ending of this guarantee back in Nov 2012 The Dept of Finance said that the ELG will end for all new liabilities (deposits) from midnight on the […]
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