{"id":289005,"date":"2026-02-09T16:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289005\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:41:14","slug":"live-register-total-falls-in-january-but-rise-in-number-of-under-25s-who-are-claiming-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289005\/","title":{"rendered":"Live register total falls in January but rise in number of under 25s who are claiming \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A further 1,200 people came off the live register in January, bringing the number in receipt of benefits down to 171,300 on a seasonally-adjusted basis. In December the figure had stood at 172,500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The latest figures from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/central-statistics-office\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/central-statistics-office\/\">Central Statistics Office<\/a> (CSO) broadly reflect the low unemployment rate detailed in separate CSO data, published last week, which put the headline jobless rate at 4.7 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In unadjusted terms, this represents an increase of 5,439 people or 3.3 per cent when compared with January 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">While the register is not an accurate barometer of unemployment as people with part-time work can be entitled to benefits, it does track trends in the labour market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 25-34 years age group made up the largest number of those on January\u2019s register at 41,139 people or 24.1 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/01\/30\/nervousness-pervades-the-irish-jobs-market-normal-slippage-or-something-else\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nervousness pervades the Irish jobs market as days of strong multinational sector growth recedeOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Some 20,960 people under the age of 25 were on the live register in January 2026, accounting for 12.3 per cent of all claimants. This compared with a figure of 19,870 on the register in December 2025, which was 11.5 per cent of all claimants that month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The counties that recorded the largest percentage increases in the number of people on the register in the 12 months to January were Dublin (+10.1 per cent) and Wicklow (+6.9 per cent), while the largest decreases were in Donegal (-4 per ecnt) and Monaghan (-3.7 per cent).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Separately, the \u200bSentix index measuring investor morale in the euro zone \u200drose unexpectedly in February, its third consecutive monthly gain and \u200dits highest level since July 2025, a survey showed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The index rose to 4.2 points in \u200cFebruary from -1.8 the month before, beating forecasts by analysts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe \u200brecession \u200din the euro zone appears to have come to an end and an upturn seems to have \u2060begun,\u201d said Sentix in a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The survey \u2060of 1,091 investors taken \u2060from February 5th-7th showed that both economic expectations and current expectations \u200drising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Expectations rose to 15.8 from 10.0 in the previous month, while the index measuring the current situation also grew to -6.8 from -13.0 in January. &#8211; Additional reporting by Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A further 1,200 people came off the live register in January, bringing the number in receipt of benefits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,14787,113,61,60,1962],"class_list":{"0":"post-289005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-central-statistics-office","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-work"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}