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Rural Life
FF calls for simpler process for farm assist applications
Fianna Fáil is calling for the process of applying for the Farm Assist Scheme to be simplified, arguing that farmers...
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...
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...