Farm Assist recipients will get their Christmas bonus next week, Minister for Social Protection, Heather Humphreys has confirmed. They are...
December 3, 2021
Recipients of the Farm Assist and Rural Social Scheme payments are in line for a Christmas Bonus to the tune...
November 27, 2020
Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys has announced the start of the National Fuel Scheme for the 2020/2021 season which...
September 30, 2020
There were over 13,000 total beneficiaries of the Farm Assist payment in 2019, including recipients and qualifying dependents. New data...
August 31, 2020
A TD has said that a cohort of farmers have been “denied justice” by not being informed they had to...
August 10, 2020
There have been calls for Farm Assist payments to be increased in line with the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment for...
April 15, 2020
Fianna Fáil is calling for the process of applying for the Farm Assist Scheme to be simplified, arguing that farmers...
April 9, 2019
Recipients of social welfare – including Farm Assist and the state pension – will start to receive an increase in...
March 27, 2018
A man who worked for a fertiliser manufacturer for a year has been fined after claiming €9,024 in illegal social...
July 4, 2017
The number of recipients of Farm Assist has declined 33% since 2012, according to figures supplied to AgriLand from the...
June 26, 2017
In 2017, revised estimates for the Department of Social Protection provide for expenditure of almost €83m on the Farm Assist...
January 26, 2017
The number of farmers applying to Farm Assist has fallen since 2012, new figures from the Department of Social Protection...
July 15, 2016
Any forthcoming changes to the Farm Assist Scheme will not be implemented until next year at the earliest, according to the...
July 1, 2016
Newly appointed Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar, has committed to a review of the Farm Assist scheme. The Programme...
May 27, 2016
The Minister for Social Protection, Leo Varadkar, has been called on to ensure the reintroduction of income and child disregards...
May 23, 2016
Over 8,000 farmers were in receipt of Farm Assist payments during March, according to the Department of Social Protection. In...
May 6, 2016
Changes made in the Budgets of 2012 and 2013 to the Farm Assist scheme saw the Government save over €10m...
December 18, 2015
The Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton came in for some severe criticism in the Dail this week over recent...
November 18, 2015
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