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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people will be paid an extra week of fuel allowance this week following on from the extreme weather brought about by Storm Emma.
An extra €22.50 will be paid to over 368,000 households.
The extra payment will go automatically to all customers who currently receive the Fuel Allowance payment.
People will receive the payment in the usual manner.
In total, the full cost to the Exchequer of the additional payment will be €8.3 million and it will be paid to 368,669 households across the country.
Initially the Taoiseach refused to confirm that the government would double the fuel allowance allocation for the cold snap, which drew criticism from the opposition before it was announced that it would be paid.
Commenting, Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty said that she was “delighted” to be able to give the payment.
She said it had “doubtless helped to ensure the comfort and warmth of many vulnerable people during this time”.
Doherty also said that she was “very proud of my Department’s response to the emergency situation”.
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Had not realised they had not yet provided a replacement mobility allowance for those who require it. Typical government not important as there are no votes in it…..
When it comes to the golden circle the wheels of government can spin very fast…when its the most vulnerable they barely turn at all.
Wonder will they change when they get a spanking on may 23..
Yet Water tax legislation sailed through in record time………………makes you wonder about priorities doesnt it?
It is a pity they would not cut their own mobility allowance as in travel claims just to attend the Dail, their place of work!
Government policy. The weak, the needy and feeble are shoved aside, and put at the back of the Q. Don’t forget the feeble minded weaklings who pretend to govern us subscribe to the Darwinian ethic of, ‘Only the strong survive’. In their world that means only the greedy and their corrupt underlings survive. We can be strong in ways that they will never know about. God Bless you all. Get up now and walk the walk and talk the talk.
Govts do not do planning or forward thinking. That would entail utilising brain cells. Totally alien concept to the powers that be!!!
Disgraceful Gov. has not catered for people with disabilities. Should it really matter if a person was diagnosed with a disability in the last few months as opposited to 13 months ago.
Gov Policy = Ageism and discrimination at its best.
unless they get told by the mafia bosses in brussels or the troika/IMF or the banks these lot in power couldn’t run a decent piss up on st paddys day
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