Rural Life
Almost 4,300 Farm Assist recipients to receive double payment
The Department of Social Protection has confirmed that 4,299 Farm Assist recipients will receive a double payment this week. They...
Rural Life
The Department of Social Protection has confirmed that 4,299 Farm Assist recipients will receive a double payment this week. They...
Rural Life
From this week (beginning Monday, January 1), there is an increased rate of payment for those who receive the Farm...
Rural Life
A Christmas bonus of 100% will be paid during this week (beginning December 4, 2023) to people qualifying for the Farm...
Agri-Business
The number of Farm Assist recipients fell by nearly 11% in 2022 compared to the previous year, provisional data from...
Rural Life
A member of the Seanad is calling on Minister for Rural and Community Development Heather Humphreys to launch a public...
Rural Life
A 100% Christmas bonus will be paid to those in receipt of Farm Assist payments and other state supports next...
Rural Life
5,004 low-income farmers across the country qualified for the Farm Assist payment last year, according to the Department of Social...
Rural Life
4,925 low-income farmers across the country received Farm Assist payments last year, according to the Department of Social Protection. Donegal...
Rural Life
Decisions on 12 applications to the Farm Assist scheme in 2021 were revised upon appeal according to data from Minister...
Rural Life
The Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys has today (Tuesday, June 13) introduced major new changes to the Farm Assist...
Rural Life
Farm Assist recipients will get their Christmas bonus next week, Minister for Social Protection, Heather Humphreys has confirmed. They are...
CAP / Schemes
Recipients of the Farm Assist and Rural Social Scheme payments are in line for a Christmas Bonus to the tune...
Rural Life
Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys has announced the start of the National Fuel Scheme for the 2020/2021 season which...
Rural Life
There were over 13,000 total beneficiaries of the Farm Assist payment in 2019, including recipients and qualifying dependents. New data...
Rural Life
A TD has said that a cohort of farmers have been “denied justice” by not being informed they had to...
Agri-Business
There have been calls for Farm Assist payments to be increased in line with the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment for...
Rural Life
Fianna Fáil is calling for the process of applying for the Farm Assist Scheme to be simplified, arguing that farmers...
Rural Life
Recipients of social welfare – including Farm Assist and the state pension – will start to receive an increase in...