{"id":365,"date":"2012-02-07T08:57:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T08:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/report-shows-majority-of-people-on-jobseekers-benefit-are-without-a-basic-standard-of-living-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-02-07T08:57:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T08:57:49","slug":"report-shows-majority-of-people-on-jobseekers-benefit-are-without-a-basic-standard-of-living-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/report-shows-majority-of-people-on-jobseekers-benefit-are-without-a-basic-standard-of-living-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Report shows majority of people on Jobseeker\u2019s Benefit are without a basic standard of living \u2013 Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Report shows majority of people on Jobseeker\u2019s Benefit are without a basic standard of living<\/strong> <strong>\u2013 <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> has described as \u201cunsurprising\u201d the finding of a report funded by the  Department of Social Protection that suggests the majority of families  who are dependent on Jobseeker\u2019s Benefit do not have an adequate income  for a basic standard of living.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe report was carried out by the Policy Institute at Trinity  College Dublin and was funded by the Department of Social Protection. It  based its findings on the United Nations definition of a minimum  standard of living, which is described as one which meets a person&#8217;s  physical, psychological, spiritual and social needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe survey assessed different households including a single person  living alone, a two-parent household with two children and a pensioner  couple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe findings suggest that in families where two parents with two  children have one parent earning a full-time minimum wage, they are  unable to meet the basic standard of living. Similarly, where one parent  is working full-time and another part-time earning the minimum wage,  their income is also inadequate for what is defined as a basic standard  of living. In a family where both parents are unemployed and dependent  on jobseeker&#8217;s benefit, there is usually an inadequate income for even a  basic standard of living.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe report\u2019s findings are unsurprising and I know from the people  who contact my constituency office on a daily basis that many families  are struggling to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government is not helping matters through implementing severe  austerity measures on a range of essential services. We need only look  at how the education and health sectors have been hit to understand why  the situation is deteriorating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe findings contained in this report expose the myth that people on  social welfare payments are overpaid. This Government should stop  targeting the most vulnerable and implement measures that will protect  the growing numbers of families who are suffering the most in these  difficult times.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report shows majority of people on Jobseeker\u2019s Benefit are without a basic standard of living \u2013 Crowe The Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has described as \u201cunsurprising\u201d the finding of a report funded by the Department of Social Protection that suggests the majority of families who are dependent on Jobseeker\u2019s Benefit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}