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22/07/2011
Unemployed Welfare Rights Book Launched
Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton, will launch a free comprehensive publication to benefit the Unemployed this Monday.
The book, ‘Working for Work’ is the only comprehensive free publication available bringing together a wide range of information for individual unemployed people, people who have lost their jobs, or are about to lose their jobs, and those in receipt of welfare payments.
This edition sees the scope of the publication expanded to greater accommodate the needs of the many people who have no experience of unemployment who are now faced with the threat of being out of work. The book outlines an individual’s entitlements to a number of social welfare payments and secondary benefits - including Rent Supplement and Mortgage Interest Supplements and also provides information on Redundancy payments, Rights at Work and Social Welfare Appeals.
The book2 is distributed to over 195 INOU affiliate organisation around the country, as well as Social Welfare Offices, Citizens Information Centres, FAS Offices, Money Advice and Budgeting Services (MABS), VEC’s, Libraries, Colleges, Youth Information Centres, Local Employment Services, St. Vincent de Paul, Focus Ireland, Threshold, Charities and various other National Organisations
‘Working for Work’ will be launched at 11.30am in the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (INOU) offices at Araby House in Dublin.
(BMcN)
The book, ‘Working for Work’ is the only comprehensive free publication available bringing together a wide range of information for individual unemployed people, people who have lost their jobs, or are about to lose their jobs, and those in receipt of welfare payments.
This edition sees the scope of the publication expanded to greater accommodate the needs of the many people who have no experience of unemployment who are now faced with the threat of being out of work. The book outlines an individual’s entitlements to a number of social welfare payments and secondary benefits - including Rent Supplement and Mortgage Interest Supplements and also provides information on Redundancy payments, Rights at Work and Social Welfare Appeals.
The book2 is distributed to over 195 INOU affiliate organisation around the country, as well as Social Welfare Offices, Citizens Information Centres, FAS Offices, Money Advice and Budgeting Services (MABS), VEC’s, Libraries, Colleges, Youth Information Centres, Local Employment Services, St. Vincent de Paul, Focus Ireland, Threshold, Charities and various other National Organisations
‘Working for Work’ will be launched at 11.30am in the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (INOU) offices at Araby House in Dublin.
(BMcN)
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