Rural Life
Farm Assist and state pension receive €5 boost
Recipients of social welfare – including Farm Assist and the state pension – will start to receive an increase in...
Rural Life
Recipients of social welfare – including Farm Assist and the state pension – will start to receive an increase in...
Rural Life
A man who worked for a fertiliser manufacturer for a year has been fined after claiming €9,024 in illegal social...
Rural Life
The number of recipients of Farm Assist has declined 33% since 2012, according to figures supplied to AgriLand from the...
CAP / Schemes
In 2017, revised estimates for the Department of Social Protection provide for expenditure of almost €83m on the Farm Assist...
Rural Life
The number of farmers applying to Farm Assist has fallen since 2012, new figures from the Department of Social Protection...
CAP / Schemes
Any forthcoming changes to the Farm Assist Scheme will not be implemented until next year at the earliest, according to the...
CAP / Schemes
Newly appointed Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar, has committed to a review of the Farm Assist scheme. The Programme...
Agri-Business
The Minister for Social Protection, Leo Varadkar, has been called on to ensure the reintroduction of income and child disregards...
CAP / Schemes
Over 8,000 farmers were in receipt of Farm Assist payments during March, according to the Department of Social Protection. In...
Agri-Business
Changes made in the Budgets of 2012 and 2013 to the Farm Assist scheme saw the Government save over €10m...
Agri-Business
The Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton came in for some severe criticism in the Dail this week over recent...
Agri-Business
There are no plans to change the current criteria for accessing Farm Sssist applications, according to the Minister for Social...
Agri-Business
The Department of Social Protection has estimated that an average of 9,400 farmers per week will claim farm assist this...
Agri-Business
The number of farmers who claimed Farm Assist in March fell by over 10% compared to the same month last...
Agri-Business
IFA Rural Development Chairman Flor McCarthy has accused Minister Joan Burton of hounding farmers on Farm Assist with new and more rigorous...
Agri-Business
In 2013, 377 overpayments were made on the Farm Assist scheme with a total value of €2.9 million, giving an...
Agri-Business
According to the Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton this year the Department will spend approximately €91.6 million on the...
Agri-Business
The number of farmers claiming Farm Assist dropped by 13% last year, according to Department of Agriculture, Food and the...