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1st March 2018
11:16am GMT

"Many lone parents are due to collect essential social welfare today but can't bring kids out in that," the group tweeted. "Post offices (that are open) will close at 1pm. If you know a lone parent can you offer to mind kids to allow them out to post office."SPARK shared a message from one stranded parent who said she is running low on food.
One in three lone parents in Ireland are persistently deprived, a study released last month showed. This rate of deprivation is 26 per cent higher than for other adults, researcher Dorothy Watson of the Economic and Social Research Institute found. Let's all try and dig in to help anyone need today and tomorrow.Lone parents are due to collect social welfare today but many now stranded with young children and post offices closing. Could no one have planned to allow them collect money a day earlier? Extra fuel allowance great, but people need money today for food, fuel, prepay meters etc. pic.twitter.com/0aeW94kOU8
— SPARK-Ireland (@SparkIreland) March 1, 2018
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