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20th April 2020
12:29pm BST

According to RTE News, a number of lone parents have said that they have not received maintenance payments since the lock down began.
The CEO of One Family, Karen Kiernan, said that she has been receiving a lot of phone calls from distressed lone parents;
"For many people, the maintenance has just suddenly stopped coming into their accounts. This is obviously related to the sudden unemployment that many thousands of people have been experiencing across the country."Kiernan went on to say that with the courts currently closed these parents are worried about what they are going to do, with many already being on a tight budget before the lock down even began.
One Family is said to have recently lobbied the Department of Social Protection and Minister Regina Doherty directly, for a response to the issue of maintenance not being paid.
As it stands there has been no public response given from the Department of Social Protection on the matter.
Until some sort of solution is found to deal with the issue many lone parents and their children are left in an awful predicament.
We will be keeping a close eye on the topic and will update with any further news from the Department of Social Protection or Minister Doherty.Explore more on these topics: