News Items Tagged "Benefits"

• Gallagher: Quinn employees face benefit nightmare

  Friday 30th April 2010 SDLP Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA Tommy Gallagher said Quinn employees facing redundancy also face a cross-border benefits nightmare unless long-standing difficulties with claims processing are addressed.

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• Gallagher: Distressing benefits experience for Quinn workers

  Sunday 2nd May 2010 SDLP Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA Tommy Gallagher has called on the Stormont and Dublin governments to act immediately to address the failures of the benefits system for cross border workers.

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• Ritchie: NI and its people must be given incentive to get back into work

  

  Thursday 2nd September 2010 SDLP Leader and South Down MP Margaret Ritchie MLA has said that Northern Ireland lacks the normal economic incentives that make it worthwhile helping people off-benefit and into work.

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• Gallagher: Cross-border healthcare the way forward

  Saturday 6th November 2010 SDLP Health Spokesperson Tommy Gallagher has said huge savings and a better service can be achieved through cross border healthcare.

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• Attwood: DUP adopts ‘on your bike’ approach to benefits

  

  Thursday 11th November 2010 SDLP Social Development Minister Alex Attwood said the DUP’s shift in favour of the Coalition’s crude proposals for benefit claimants is disappointing.

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• Bradley: DUP’S Hamilton only interested in cheap shots

  Tuesday 23rd November 2010 SDLP Social Development spokeswoman Mary Bradley has accused her committee chairman Simon Hamilton of performing policy u-turns on welfare reform to secure cheap headlines.

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• Mark H Durkan offering free benefits advice service

  

  Monday 21st November 2011 SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan is offering a free, simple and anonymous service at his constituency office for constituents to check their benefits entitlements online with A2B’s (Access 2 Benefits) online benefits calculator.

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• Durkan: Parity politics must come ahead of party politics

  

  Thursday 26th January 2012 SDLP Social Development Spokesperson Mark H Durkan has said all parties must work together to fight the draconian welfare changes being imposed by the British Government which are due to hit the North of Ireland in a matter of weeks.

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• Ritchie: Cameron’s cuts impacting harshly on vulnerable children

  

  Wednesday 1st February 2012 SDLP South Down MP Margaret Ritchie has taken David Cameron to task on the impact of the Tory welfare reform cuts on disabled children.

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• Durkan questions benefits ‘lifestyle choice’

  

  Thursday 2nd February 2012 SDLP Foyle MP Mark Durkan has expressed deep concern over changes to the welfare system in the House of Commons this week.

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