Des O'Grady
OPINION Lone parent households have now been singled out by Labour Party Minister Joan Burton for extra pain.
From Monday 16 January the government has removed concurrent payments for new participants in Community Employment schemes and cut the qualified child payment for existing lone parent CE participants by €29.80 per child per week.
This means that a lone parent taking up a CE place from now on will not receive any extra social welfare payments.
As well as this people who are presently employed on a CE scheme receiving any Lone-Parent Family Social Welfare Payment will loose up to 2 qualified child payments totaling €59.60.
