Jobseekers Benefit: Fine for failing to engage with employment services to be doubled

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Jobseekers Benefit: Fine for failing to engage with employment services to be doubled
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Plans to dock people’s dole payments for failing to engage with employment services ae “all stick and no carrot” - Social Justice Ireland.

Plans to dock people’s dole payments for failing to engage with employment services are “all stick and no carrot”, Social Justice Ireland has warned.

“This is really a question about why people are unable to engage with the system and why these fines are being put in place,” she said.

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