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THE ENHANCED ILLNESS BENEFIT (EIB) – paid at €350 per week – has been extended until the end of June.
Those that are diagnosed with Covid-19 or who need to self-isolate in line with HSE guidelines can avail of the weekly payment of €350.
In general, the payment is paid for up to seven days but, depending on the severity of the Covid-19 infection, the Department of Social Protection has said it can be paid for longer.
The payment excludes Sundays and is paid from the first day of illness.
The testing advice currently states that those that are 40 or older and have symptoms of Covid-19 should book a PCR test, along with children aged three months to three years old who have symptoms, as well as healthcare workers.
Therefore, people can avail of the payment if they have:
To date, almost €230 million has been paid under this scheme, supporting over 374,500 people.
In the week from 21 January 2022 to 27 January 2022, some 31,190 people were certified to receive this payment.
As of this morning, there are currently 11,680 people receiving this payment.
Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys said the benefit has been a vital support for many workers and the self-employed throughout the pandemic.
“The current payment rate of €350 per week was initially due to cease later this month.
“However, with Covid-19 still circulating in our communities, I believe it is important that we extend the payment until the end of June. I am glad to have secured Government approval to make these changes today,” she said.
The easiest way to apply for the payment is via MyWelfare.ie, said the minister.
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So sad.
Shocking stuff altogether.
Just a horrendous situation. I wonder will Hussein Obama still tout Yemen as one of his “great foreign policy success stories”?
What is happening is the continuation of the Sunni/Shia conflict that originated following the death of Mahomed when the religion split on the interpretation of how Islam would develop. This conflict is being acted out in a modern weapon context. For them the normal rules of war do not exist.
Indeed: a Kalashnikov makes a mighty warrior out of a little kid in todays world and the dastardly British and french liberated the Arabs from the gentle rule of the ottomans who had kept the lid on religious strife for centuries. By the way- does anybody think hitler would have paid for the oil or be coerced by suicide bombers?
Gaining a better understanding of what is happening in Yemen today , and why .
Yemen – the Big Picture. US Sponsored Civil Wars
Peter Koenig, economist and geopolitical analyst, worked in Yemen in the 1990s and early 2000s.
“Yemen is a patchwork of tribes, the result of former colonies, therefore made vulnerable for conflicts; easily ignitable conflicts. A situation left behind on purpose by the old British colonial masters, today servants to the Washington Empire. That’s the name of the game throughout the Middle East – and eventually throughout the world. Divide and rule, ( a strategy successfully implemented in N.Ireland for many years)– by Zionist-Anglo-Saxon organized and never-ending chaos.
It is certainly true, where ever the US and its NATO cronies put their heavy boots, they create lasting misery and chaos. But these never-ending implanted internal conflicts and civil wars in far-away countries are produced by design, not to end soon. They are multi-benefit endeavors, lubricating the US war machine, assuring the ‘need’ for US intervention and occupation, and they are paving the way for US / western transnational corporations’ unabated and merciless exploitation of the victims’ riches, looting their natural resources and enslaving their people. The globalized warriors, the emperor’s proxy armies, NATO and NATO-CIA trained mercenaries encounter little resistance from the population. People oppressed by civil strife have no time and energy to defend their rights, resources and country. They must fight for their sheer survival.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/yemen-the-big-picture/5440957
“It is certainly true, where ever the US and its NATO cronies put their heavy boots, they create lasting misery and chaos.”
I’m sure the people liberated from Nazi occupation in N.W and S. Europe, from Japanese occupation in the Pacific region and from communist occupation in Korea would beg to differ with that assertion.
Honestly, I read that entire article and couldn’t find a single piece of evidence to back up the author’s claims. It’s one long opinion piece with absolutely zero facts in there. All it amounts to is the angry ranting of someone who obviously has an issue with both the US and backing up arguments.
@Pat O’D Also to get a better understanding of fantasy vs. reality see more of Peter Koenig’s make-belief,-
“The Kouachi brother, as well as Amedy Coulibaly, the suspect in the hostage drama of the Hyper Cacher food market in eastern Paris, whose identities and past activities were well recorded in French police files, were most likely pre-identified as perpetrators of the probable pre-meditated murderous attacks that left 17 people dead within three days of horror in Paris; attacks so well organized and carried out that they could easily wear the stamp of French special forces, CIA, Mossad or all three of them – because, cui bono – who benefits? – Perhaps the Masters of all three of them?’
Brutality of Islamic state.It shows no mercy,not even towards innocent children.
How many have been killed by previous drone strikes ?
Who is guilty of starting all this trouble in the Middle East.
Yeah, because the Middle East was an idyllic paradise for the previous millennia.
At the minute it’s american backed Saudis doing the bombing.
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