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THE STATE PENSION and the core social welfare payments are to increase by €5 per week from January.
The measures were announced today by Minister for Public Expenditure Micheal McGrath as part of Budget 2022, where social welfare measures worth €558 million were announced.
This will bring the full State pension to €253.30 per week and the maximum personal rate of Jobseeker’s Allowance and Jobseeker’s Benefit with no dependents to €208 per week.
The increase will be applied proportionately to lower rates and for qualified adults.
For Jobseekers payments, there will be an increase for a dependent under 12 of €2 or €3 for those over 12.
While these measures will not come into effect until 2022, a €5 increase to the Fuel Allowance comes into effect from midnight.
The income limit to qualify for the Fuel Allowance is rising to €120 above the maximum State pension contributory rate. The qualifying period on Jobseekers Allowance and Supplementary Welfare Allowance will fall from 15 to 12 months.
Active Retirement Ireland said the €5 increase to the State pension was ‘not sufficient to meet the increased cost of living for older people’.
“Failing to bring the state pension to a rate of 34% of average weekly earnings and not triple-locking it to guarantee it increases in line with the rate of inflation or average earnings growth, demonstrates a lack of long-term planning that the Government promised older people,” CEO Maureen Kavanagh said.
Other measures announced include:
More details as we get them.
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To gruesome to show here??
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Marty Whelan shagged my sister!
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Welcome to the real world of their twisted Ideology, thankfully he only snuffed out his own life and not any innocents.
As disgustingly gruesome as it might be..if it demonstrates to all these young people running over to Syria what will be their eventual fate, it might stop some of them going.
Amazingly the people in the restaurant only suffered minor injuries.
C’est bien fait pour lui, I say. Feed his remains to the pigs and guillotine all the rest of the Islamist dogs.
Mais oui bien sur..qui seme le vent….
Show exactly what these lunatics do ? Sure we cant be having that….
I’m amazed that nobody other than the bomber died in that explosion.
I cant be ar##d..ive seen loads of sunnis get atomised on youtube and liveleaks.
Pop goes the weasel
Terror gore.
Hopefully this doesn’t set a precedent for a ratings war of blood.
Just curious about the headline – “apparent” – who writes these headlines?
We don’t to see this,it’s exactly what they would want.
He was the only one that died. Everyone else only suffered minor injuries. I’d say that’s a good kick up the hole for them.
I would have assumed that broadcasting such footage would be counter-productive in efforts to prevent similar events.
If the motives of the people behind the attacks thrive on distilling fear, wouldn’t this be advertising their cause? Especially the prominence of fame amongst peers.
Yes, there will be queues of people in the streets tomorrow copying this.
Not quite what I meant, I’m talking about the deciding factor for people who are already involved with those groups, not the recruitment.
Essentially what these people are doing is trying to send a message rather than killing specific people. I’m not saying that a media blackout is possible, but hypothetically speaking if a blackout was to happen every time an attack like this happened, would they stop happening?
Not quite what I meant, I’m talking about the deciding factor for people who are already involved with those groups, not the recruitment.
Essentially what these people are doing is trying to send a message rather than killing specific people. I’m not saying that a media blackout is possible, but hypothetically speaking if a blackout was to happen every time an attack like this happened, would they stop happening?
Francis, You have a point sort of regarding fear but I think keeping people in the dark is always a bad idea and possibly causes more fear and as Jenni points out it may stop some people from acting.
That’s a fair point! I was calling out the extremes.
What I meant to establish was just the format of which it’s delivered, there’s no need to keep people in the dark with these events. But does releasing video footage have any benefits?
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