“Application forms for Jobseekers Benefit and Jobseekers Allowance are available for the first time to download from the Department of Social and Family Affairs website” reads the press release from Minister Mary Hanafin*.
Apparently this “was part of a series of service improvement measures being brought in to help speed up the process”.
Note the download bit. [...]
In early November Bord Gáis had proposed a price increase of on average 3.9%, with ESB proposing an increase of 5.6%. Remember gas and electricity prices have already risen by 20% and 17.5% respectively this year.
The Commission for Energy Regulation yesterday announced that the proposed gas and electricity price rises are to be scrapped and [...]
I noticed one of the letters the substitute postman had dropped in the door wasn’t for me and went after him.
This isn’t mine.
Are you sure?
Yeah, I’m sure. It’s Morris Harney’s pension cheque from Roadstone.
You opened it?
No I didn’t. It says “Roadstone – Pensions Department” on it.
So how come you have it?
You gave it to me!
You’d [...]
Bzzz … bzzz … bzzz … bzzz … bzzz goes the phone.
Answer the fekin thing … answer the fekin thing … answer the fekin thing goes The Sneeze.
Bzzz … bzzz … bzzz … bzzz … bzzz goes the phone. Bzzz … bzzz …
Department of Vegetation, good morning goes the woman in her I’m-not-a-civil-servant voice.
‘Morning. I’d [...]
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