INOU launch 'Welfare Rights Awareness' Campaign

29 Jul 2004

The Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed has today launched the first phase of a 'Know Your Welfare Rights' information campaign aimed at bridging the information gaps experienced by unemployed people and other social welfare recipients. The campaign will initially target the Carlow, Navan and Tullamore areas and is being supported by the distribution of Welfare Rights Awareness posters and advertisements on the back of supermarket till receipts.

Eric Conroy, General Secretary of the INOU, launching the campaign said "Despite the growth in the range of information services available, the INOU has found that very often the people who need access to information still don’t know how or where to access Welfare Rights Information. The INOU's campaign is designed to 'meet' people during the course of their normal day-to-day activities and that’s why we've chosen to distribute our Welfare Rights Awareness posters to places like doctors surgeries, health centres, credit unions, Garda stations, social welfare offices, etc."

The INOU encourages anyone with a query regarding their welfare entitlements or options open to them to return to work to contact its Welfare to Work Query line on 01-8560088. Also copies of the INOU's Welfare Rights Handbook 'Working for Work', which includes information on Welfare, Work Education and Training options for unemployed people is free of charge from the INOU at the same number.