Universal basic income offers no-strings-attached cash. UBI differs from welfare programs, like SNAP and Medicaid, which ...

Europe’s generous welfare states are coming under increasing strain as weak economic growth collides with rising demands on government budgets, particularly from aging populations.

For years, internet users have shared a quote about how to measure the success of welfare programs, attributing the words to Ronald Reagan, the former U.S. president and California governor. The full ...

The government has unveiled plans to expand benefits for carers in their new programme for government - these include ...

The Social Security Fairness Act eliminates two provisions, the WEP and the GPO, that have been penalizing a sizable portion ...

Researchers looked into how tech could improve the tenant experience – and found instead that many issues could be fixed with ...

In Europe, the working poor subsidize the nonworking poor. Meanwhile, the welfare state is destroying worker productivity and ...

The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, have collaborated to tackle ...

The Labour Ministry has urged states to extend full social security benefits to all workers, including health and insurance.

That means people can earn more money before being excluded from the eligibility criteria for the social welfare benefit. The payment has also been hiked by €12 from today, 1 January ...

You can check out at any time. More info Social welfare recipients will see an increase in their payments from today, January 1. Core weekly payments including the state pension, jobseeker's ...

The Department of Social Protection has issued an update on Social Welfare payments over the festive period and into the New Year. Banks and post offices are also closed on New Year's Day ...