{"id":554309,"date":"2026-07-17T11:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/554309\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:49:13","slug":"over-6300-on-jobseekers-allowance-for-more-than-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/554309\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 6,300 on jobseeker\u2019s allowance for more than a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"101\" data-end=\"208\">More than 6,300 people across the country have been receiving Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance for over ten years.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"210\" data-end=\"337\">New figures from the Department of Social Protection show the long-term payments come at an estimated cost of \u20ac800 million.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"339\" data-end=\"560\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The statistics highlight the number of people who have remained on the scheme for more than a decade, with the figures prompting renewed discussion around long-term unemployment and supports to help people return to work.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"339\" data-end=\"560\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Emily Keegan reports\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/NEWSTALK202607170061.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/NEWSTALK202607170061.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 6,300 people across the country have been receiving Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance for over ten years. New figures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-554309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554309","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=554309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}