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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Ciara Phelan & Marita Moloney

Social welfare: The changes to jobseeker's payments happening in weeks as one group to be hit first

The Minister for Social Protection announced on Wednesday that recipients of the jobseeker's benefit will need to return to post offices to collect their payment.

Heather Humphreys said that returning jobseeker's payments to post offices will lead to additional footfall while it will also help to tackle fraud.

The social welfare benefit will need to be collected once again at post offices on a phased basis as a result of the easing of Covid restrictions.

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