The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) published an analysis of social welfare rate changes 2011-2022 in December 2021. The report looks at core social welfare rates over time, and rate changes…
The Cost of Disability in Ireland – Final Report has been published by the Department of Social Protection. This detail of this study, which commenced in 2019, is very welcome and should inform…
The poverty risk of households in receipt of housing subsidies is two and a half times greater after they have paid their rent, according to Social Justice Ireland’s latest study, titled ‘…
The Government of Ireland published the National Risk Assessment 2021/2022 (NRA) on Friday, 17th December 2021. The NRA was introduced post-2008 to provide an outline of the key risks for Ireland, as…
The European Commission published the Annual Sustainable Growth Survey (ASGS) in November 2021 which launched the 2022 European Semester cycle. This publication confirmed the on-going gradual shift…
661,518people in Ireland are living in poverty, of which 210,363are children.133,627 people living in poverty are in employment; the “working poor”.781,794 people…
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) is expected to publish the EU-SILC data for 2020 on Friday, 17th December. This data will tell us what proportion of the population of Ireland were living below…
Problems for tenants with the high cost of accommodation as a proportion of their income and arrears on mortgage, rent and utility bills are an indication of the continued social and economic impact…
This edition of National Social Monitor ‘Ireland Social Scoreboard’ uses elements of the European Pillar of Social Rights Social Scoreboard to examine how Ireland fares on the twenty principles in…
Caritas Europa has just published the latest edition of the Caritas CARES report for Ireland. The focus of this edition is on inclusive labour markets and social economy as part of national social…