ISS21

• Senator Alice Mary Higgins will launch the report
• Presentation of research findings by Dr Fiona Dukelow (School of Applied Social Studies, UCC) & Dr Joe Whelan (School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin)
  

Thursday, 25 May 2023 12.00-1.00 pm
Online event. Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/research-launch-tickets-632604245327

This research, which is being launched by Senator Alice Mary Higgins, was conducted by a joint research team from University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin in conjunction with One Family. The key findings and recommendations from the research, which set out to document the lived experiences of Jobseekers Transitional Payment (JST) recipients and to explore how JST is working ‘on the ground’ will also be presented by the research team at the launch.

Because JST is a relatively new payment in the Irish social welfare system, little is known about how it is experienced by recipients. Furthermore, because people living in single parent households are consistently over-represented in poverty statistics across all metrics (at risk of poverty, enforced deprivation and consistent poverty), how caregivers in one parent households experience a policy that is designed with such households in-mind represents important work. The research was funded under the Irish Research Council's New Foundations programme.