747 live sports betting casino KSPI INVESTOR ALERT: Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman LLC Announces that Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz Investors with Substantial Losses Have Opportunity to Lead Class Action LawsuitA MAJOR warning has been issued for thousands of Irish parents who could be missing out on extra cash. The rebranded Child Support Payment, previously known as Increase for a Qualified Child, is increasing its payments as part of the Budget 2025. This means that the payment will rise by €4 from €46 to €50 for children under the age of 12 years and by €8 from €54 to €62 for children aged 12 years and over. This means the major bonus is now worth up to €3,200. The new increase in payments will come into effect in January and will be added to a person's weekly social welfare payment if they are eligible for the payments. They will not get the Child Support Payment with certain payments, in some circumstances, they may only receive a half-rate payment. You may receive an Increase for a Qualified Adult if you have an adult dependant. To qualify for the Child Support Payment, your child must: It can be paid on behalf of foster children. And your child does not have to be financially dependent on you and they can be working and earning money without affecting the increase paid to you. However, you generally do not get CSP if your child is getting their own social welfare payment, except in certain circumstances. If your child is 18 or over, you can continue getting CSP for three months after they leave second-level education or finish the Leaving Certificate . You can still get the cash if your child starts work immediately after finishing school. If your child is in full-time education and you are getting a long-term social welfare payment or a short-term social welfare payment for at least 156 days, you will get the boost until your child turns 22 or until the end of the academic year in which they turn 22. If you are getting a short-term social welfare payment, time spent on other social welfare payments can be combined to meet the 156 days. However, the period between any two payments cannot be more than 26 weeks - or be more than 52 weeks in the case of Jobseeker's Allowance payments. You do not get Child Support Payment if you are receiving: And you can't avail of the major cash boost if the gross income of your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant is over €400 and you receive one of the following payments: You do not get CSP if your child is getting a social welfare payment or Supplementary Welfare Allowance in their own right. There is an exception to this rule if your child is receiving the disablement benefit. However, if you are getting CSP during the summer holiday period between academic years and your child becomes entitled to a social welfare payment in their own right, you will continue to get the CSP and your child's payment is reduced by the amount of the CSP. To get Child Support Payment, you must give details about your child dependant on your claim form when you apply for a social welfare payment. If you did not claim for your child dependent at the time you made your claim, you should contact the Department of Social Protection section that pays your social welfare payment. You can also contact your local Intreo or branch office.

KAsset aims to manage assets worth B2tn by 2027A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here . President-elect Donald Trump is still putting together his Cabinet for his second term, and many other government positions will open up when he takes the oath of office in January. But there’s a growing expectation that he will quickly make at least one new vacancy by firing FBI Director Christopher Wray. There would be some circularity in that particular personnel move since it was Trump who hired Wray, a Republican, by nominating him to a 10-year term in 2017. That said, Trump has never shied away from firing someone he once backed. FBI directors get those 10-year terms as the result of a post-Watergate law that was in response to J. Edgar Hoover’s much-too-long and controlling 48-year leadership of the FBI. The term length is supposed to inoculate the director from political pressure. But it never works out that way. If Trump fires Wray, he’d be first president to fire 2 FBI directors Trump famously fired then-FBI Director James Comey months after taking office for his first term in 2017. Comey was also a Republican, although he was nominated to the position by Democratic President Barack Obama. (Comey later said in 2018 that he “can’t be associated with” the Republican Party due to Trump’s influence on the GOP.) Presidents before Trump pushed FBI directors out In 1993, Bill Clinton fired then-FBI Director William Sessions after an internal ethics report emerged during the prior year’s presidential campaign. It included questions about a $10,000 fence installed around the director’s home and flights he had taken, among other issues. Earlier, Jimmy Carter suggested during the 1976 presidential campaign that he would have fired then-FBI Director Clarence Kelley over revelations about window drapery valances improperly installed at his home, among other things. Carter did not immediately fire Kelley when he took the White House, but Kelley was ultimately forced to resign, according to Douglas Charles, a history professor at Penn State University, who noted that the drapery scandal “today seems like very small fry stuff.” But at the time, it would have tested the new law, which Congress passed in 1976, for Carter to fire Kelley. “There certainly was the question, can any president fire an FBI director when there’s a legislated 10-year term,” Charles said. While that question has clearly been answered now, those previous firings were about ethics and personal failings. Trump’s are about policy differences, including over the role of the Justice Department overall. Why did Trump fire Comey? The stated reasons for Comey’s firing, laid out in a memo prepared for Trump’s Justice Department, were contradictory. Comey was criticized both for not prosecuting Hillary Clinton over her treatment of classified material and then for releasing “derogatory” information about Clinton at a press conference. The real reason Comey was fired, as Trump admitted to NBC News at the time, was Comey’s investigation into ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia. Then Trump’s troubles cascaded In the furor that followed Comey’s firing, it was the author of the Justice Department memo recommending Comey’s firing, then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed a special counsel to follow up on the Russia investigation. Rosenstein appointed the special counsel because Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, had recused himself from any investigation related to Trump’s 2016 campaign. Sessions did so because he had failed during Senate confirmation hearings to disclose preelection contacts he had with Russia’s ambassador to the US at the time. Enter another former FBI director Who did Rosenstein pick as special counsel to lead that Russia investigation? Robert S. Mueller III, who happened to be the former FBI director. Mueller was widely respected and had taken charge of the FBI days before the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Congress passed a special law to extend his term by two years during the Obama administration. Anyone who remembers Trump’s first term can recall that speculation about the Russia investigation sucked up much of the oxygen in Washington and led to the prosecution of several of Trump’s top 2016 campaign aides, including campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who Trump later pardoned. Trump has complained that the investigation was part of a “deep state” effort to undermine him. Unintended consequences The cooperation by Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen with Mueller’s investigation is what led to revelations about hush money payments for which Trump was convicted in New York earlier this year. Trump’s sentencing for his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records has been delayed indefinitely after his election win. What the Mueller report concluded The release of Mueller’s report was slow-walked by Trump’s second attorney general, Bill Barr, who gave the impression that Mueller’s report exonerated Trump. It did not. Mueller was constrained by Justice Department rules that bar the prosecution of a sitting president. When the full report was released in April 2019, Mueller said there was not enough evidence to prove collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russians. It also specifically did not exonerate Trump. “While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him,” the report said . It also concluded that while Trump’s campaign in 2016 expected help from Russia, it didn’t conspire with Russia. That gets forgotten after years of Trump referring to Mueller’s investigation as the “Russia hoax.” There are things that helped generate the Mueller investigation, notably the discredited Steele dossier , that will forever anger Trump. Trump targeted FBI officials There were also related scandals, such as the release of anti-Trump texts by an FBI agent at the time, Peter Strzok, who initially played a role in Mueller’s inquiry, and Lisa Page, who was then an FBI attorney with whom Strzok was having an affair. The FBI agreed in July of this year to pay $2 million to Strzok and Page to compensate for the release of those text messages. Another FBI official, Andrew McCabe, who served briefly as acting director after Trump fired Comey, was fired by Sessions days before his retirement. McCabe, now a CNN contributor, ultimately won back his pension in court . Trump turned on Wray Wray was overwhelmingly confirmed to succeed Comey in August 2017 in part by promising during confirmation hearings to maintain independence from the White House. Trump, meanwhile, prizes loyalty. Even while Trump was still president in 2020 , he had already turned on Wray, in part because he felt Wray was not cooperating with special counsel John Durham – who was appointed by Barr, Sessions’ replacement, to investigate the Mueller investigation. All of that adds up to why Trump wants loyalists at the Department of Justice, including the FBI. Douglas said that about 100 years ago, in the wake of the Teapot Dome scandal that exposed corruption within the federal government, there was talk in the Senate of taking the Department of Justice, including the FBI, completely out of politics and making it and all of its employees an independent part of the civil service. Trump wants to go in the opposite direction today and bring the FBI more under the control of the president.OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party will not support a Liberal plan to give Canadians a GST holiday and $250 unless the government expands eligibility for the cheques, saying the rebate leaves out “the most vulnerable.” The Liberals announced a plan last week to cut the federal sales tax on a raft of items like toys and restaurant meals for two months, and to give $250 to more than 18.7 million Canadians in the spring. Speaking after a Canadian Labour Congress event in Ottawa, Singh says he’s open to passing the GST legislation, but the rebate needs to include seniors, students, people who are on disability benefits and those who were not able to work last year. Singh says he initially supported the idea because he thought the rebate cheques would go to anyone who earned under $150,000 last year. But the so-called working Canadians rebate will be sent to those who had an income, leaving out people Singh says need the help. The government intends to include the measures in the fall economic statement, which has not yet been introduced in the House of Commons. The proposed GST holiday would begin in mid-December, lasting for two months. It would remove the GST on prepared foods at grocery stores, some alcoholic drinks, children’s clothes and toys, Christmas trees, restaurant meals, books, video games and physical newspapers. A privilege debate has held up all government business in the House since late September, with the Conservatives pledging to continue a filibuster until the government hands over unredacted documents related to misspending at a green technology fund. The NDP said last week they had agreed to pause the privilege debate in order to pass the legislation to usher in the GST holiday. Singh said Tuesday that unless there are changes to the proposed legislation, he will not support pausing the debate. The Bloc Québécois is also pushing for the rebates to be sent to seniors and retirees. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 26, 2024.

Bojan Miovski scored twice as Girona thrashed Espanyol 4-1 in LaLiga at Estadi Municipal de Montilivi on Saturday. ( More Sports News ) Bryan Gil and Ladislav Krejci were also on the scoresheet as the home side raced to a 4-0 lead inside the first half hour, with Javi Puado scoring the visiting side's only goal after the break. After the match was halted because of a fan being taken ill in the crowd, Gil opened the scoring when he unleashed a stunning long-range strike into the bottom corner with four minutes on the clock. Gil was behind the second goal for Michel's side too, as he capitalised on a defensive error and crossed to Miovski, who made it 2-0 in the 16th minute before the pair combined again for a third five minutes later. Donny van de Beek's header from Yaser Asprilla's corner was pushed in by Krejci for Girona's fourth in the 27th minute. Espanyol got a consolation goal 10 minutes into the second half when Puado hit a long-range strike that found the back of Paulo Gazzaniga's net. Girona, last season's surprise package, climbed to fifth in LaLiga with 21 points, while Espanyol are 19th and in the relegation zone with 10 points. La seva primera gran nit a Montilivi! pic.twitter.com/NC4p0kA5n3 Data Debrief: A dominant display by Girona Girona enjoyed 75.6% of possession against Espanyol and generated an xG of 3.36 after attempting 12 shots, of which five were on target, in the 90 minutes. On the other hand, the visitors only had a single shot on target for the entirety of the match and ended with an xG of 0.42. Girona also attempted 772 passes in this game, their highest total in a single match in LaLiga this season, with 90.5% passing accuracy, as Espanyol were limited to a total of 236 passes.

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Published 4:21 pm Friday, December 13, 2024 By Sabrina Simms Robertson VIDALIA, La. — Vidalia Mayor Buz Craft is opposed to plans to reorganize the Concordia Parish schools, and he’s urging residents to join his opposition. This week, the Concordia Parish School Board released a consent order handed down from the U.S. District Court that proposes redrawing school boundary lines to change where high school students attend school and consolidate elementary schools. The proposed changes set new boundaries for existing high schools, with consolidation for elementary and middle school grades. Students enrolled in kindergarten through second grade would attend Vidalia Upper Elementary. Students enrolled in third through fifth grade would attend Ferriday Upper Elementary. Students enrolled in sixth through eighth grade would attend Ferriday Junior High. The purpose of the proposal, which the school board must vote on by Dec. 31, is to move the 1965 desegregation lawsuit against the school board toward dismissal. In a livestream on his social media page Friday, Craft asked residents to contact the school board and tell members to “vote no” on the proposal and to “go to trial” with it if they have to. “I’m very much against what’s proposed right now,” Craft said, explaining that the sense of pride that most people have in their schools could dissipate and cause people to leave. He also cited other issues he felt the school reorganization would cause, such as increasing transportation costs for the school system and families and causing congestion in classrooms. “I know Vidalia doesn’t want this. The Town of Ferriday doesn’t want this at all. They love their independence. They love their community. They don’t want this either. ... Monterey doesn’t want it ... nobody really wants it. So why can’t we stand together?” he said. Craft also questioned what happened to dig up the nearly 60-year-old desegregation case to begin with. “I got some questions and I hope to get those answered,” he said. “Why, after 60 years, are we bringing up a 1965 segregation case to hang this on? It has been 60 years that this has been out there and now it’s thrust into ‘this has got to be taken care of now.’ Why? Why is it such an important thing now to go back and change up something that’s worked for 60 years for our community and for our school system. ... Is it money? ... Is it test scores? Those are questions that I hope to get answered pretty quickly.” Craft encouraged residents to attend the public forum on this issue at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Vidalia Convention Center, both to receive information and to let their opposition to it be heard. “There is nothing more serious to us than our kids and their education ... so let’s get together. Say no to this, because no one in the parish wants it,” Craft said. “Let’s all stand together and push our school boards to say no. And if this has got to go to trial, let’s take our chances at trial. Because if we don’t, if you vote to go ahead and support it, it’s a done deal.”2025 might not be the year for health insurance industry: Here is why