Social welfare Christmas payments: Dates, when are the increases and is there a double payment?
Social welfare recipients will receive two payments at the same time this week
Social Welfare Payments
Number of jobseeker’s allowance recipients sanctioned this year set to double
Payment reductions imposed on 9,000 people up to end of October compared with 5,200 for entirety of 2023, figures show
I’m a full-time carer for my mother and disabled brother. Am I entitled to any State support?
Family carers are among the most invisible people in society and save the State billions of euro - but you may be entitled to carer’s allowance
Are you eligible for up to €30,000 in Government-funded retrofit works?
The energy upgrade scheme can provide thousands of euro in upgrades leading to a warmer home, lower bills and a more valuable property
Double pension and child benefit payments and cost-of-living lump sums to be paid by December 3rd
Timing of the payments will likely fuel speculation around an early general election
Budget 2025 will only increase rich-poor gap, Social Justice Ireland says
Budget measures fail to match the stated ambition of tackling child poverty, says NGO
Budget 2025: Opposition calls for election as Coalition defends budget ‘bonanza’ in face of fierce criticism
Labour says budget was ‘all glitter and full of shiny gimmicks’; Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has said she ‘wants to see a full restoration’ of barristers fees
What wasn’t in Budget 2025 but could have been?
Government criticised for not indexing minimum social welfare payments
Budget 2025 Q&A: inheritance tax and welfare changes the main focus for readers
Record interest among readers in wide-ranging live online post-budget question and answer session
Budget 2025 Q&A: Your PAYE tax breaks, mortgage relief and employee gift limit queries answered
Dominic Coyle of The Irish Times and Beryl Power from PwC answered readers’ questions in our post-budget live blog which has now finished. You can read back on all the questions and answers below
‘I still can’t afford a house’: What the budget means for a teacher, renter, landlord, farmer and others
Budget 2025: Measures aimed at tackling the cost of living are underwhelming for some
Budget will provide six-month sugar rush - but perhaps only incremental change on housing and health
Budget 2025: Will it alter our shaky trajectory on housing? Will it end emergency department overcrowding in hospitals?
Once-off payments will be welcomed but the payback will be modest social welfare increases
Budget 2025: Voters will no doubt feel some warm glow of extra money in their pockets, but it will be short-lived
Budget 2025: Who stands to benefit most from tax changes and cost-of-living measures?
Budget 2025: Double-income households earning above €50,000 each with three children to benefit most in hard cash terms
Double child benefit and increased welfare payments among record social protection budget
Budget 2025: Weekly €12 increase across social welfare payments and double payments of child benefit - of €280 each - among rise in payments to families, pensioners and carers
Budget 2025 main points: Energy credits, bonus welfare payments, higher minimum wage and tax changes
USC cut to 3%; extra credits for renters; 10,000 new social homes to built and free public transport for under-9s
Budget 2025: Paschal Donohoe’s speech to the Dáil in full
Minister for Public Expenditure spoke immediately after the Minister for Finance
Budget 2025: Jack Chambers’s speech to the Dáil in full
Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure addressed the Dáil on Tuesday
Budget 2025: What we know so far – from tax cuts to pension increases and free schoolbooks
This year’s measures will be framed around tax and spending package of €8.3bn, with cost-of-living bundle worth roughly €1.5bn
It’s all eyes on the election now and children don’t have a vote
Hey, kids – we have a roadmap. Just hang on in there and try not to get too angry and ashamed about being poor in a rich country
Budget one-offs are economically indefensible and politically smart
Everyone - within Government and without - is preparing for a November election
Budget 2025: flagged tax cuts make little sense
Ireland needs an honest conversation about taxes and our vulnerabilities
Simon Harris: ‘I can’t give the whole manifesto away, but should early childhood be part of the education system in a more formal way?’
In his first big interview as Taoiseach, the Fine Gael leader hints at his ‘big ideas’ on childcare, housing and infrastructural projects
Hundreds of cases of potential identity fraud uncovered by social welfare investigators
State has made savings of €526m through the review of more than 630,000 social welfare claims
Many young families are still financially squeezed. Here’s why
Why are people still struggling if inflation is falling and wages are rising?
Budget 2025: Taxpayers in line for significant income tax and USC cuts
Social welfare increases of at least €12 per week; free Leaving Cert books and electricity credits being considered
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