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THERE WILL BE a €12 increase to all weekly social welfare payments under Budget 2025.
This includes the jobseeker’s, disability, and carer’s allowances, as well as the State pension.
The pension rate will increase to €278 for those aged between 66 and 80, and €288 for those over 80.
Those who are in receipt of the pension or the Disability Allowance who are living alone will also receive a lump sum of €200.
A €400 “cost of living” lump sum payment is promised for recipients of Disability, Carer’s and Working Family payments, as well as Invalidity and Blind Pension recipients.*
In addition, this month long-term social welfare recipients will get double payment. There will be another double payment at Christmas. Nearly 1.4 million people will benefit from it.
The baseline Carer’s Allowance will rise from €248 to €260 per week, while the Carer’s Support Grant will rise from €1,850 to €2,000.
Carers will now qualify for the fuel allowance.
Furthermore, the threshold to receive the allowance will increase to €625 for a single person and €1,250 for a couple. This is a significant change from the existing €450 and €900 thresholds.
Those who care for a child with a severe disability will get a €20 increase in their allowance.
Those in receipt of the Disability Allowance with no dependents will now get €244 per week.
Earlier this year, the government scrapped a plan to create a new three-tiered system for the allowance following backlash from activists.
The Green paper would have linked the level of payment to a determination on capacity to work and the nature of the disability.
There had been speculation around whether Jobseeker’s Allowance would be subject the increases expected in other payments.
Taoiseach Simon Harris appeared to hint that Fine Gael had gotten its way, after it clashed with its coalition colleagues who wanted to increase the dole.
He called it a “practical” matter rather than an “ideological debate”.
For parents, there will be a €15 increase to maternity, paternity and adoptive parents payments.
The weekly Child Support Payment (previously called the Increase for a Qualified Child) will rise by €4 for children under 12 years, and €8 for children over 12.
Among the other once-off payments in the €2.2 billion cost of living package are a €420 payment to new parents and €400 for working families.
They will also receive a €100 lump sum for each child they already receive the standard benefit from.
*This article was amended at 18.25 on 1 October to clarify which social welfare recipients will receive the €400 lump sum payment; and on 3 October to clarify what the weekly child support payment is.
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I am sure that it was Erskine Childers snr and not his son, president Childers that was the author of riddle of the sands. He was also part of the delegation that negotiated the Anglo Irish agreement following the war of independence.
That’s what I thought too when I first read that.
It was actually Erskine Childers’ father who was executed in 1922, that wrote The Riddle of the Sands. Great article tho Sinead and god knows Darby O Gill was the ultimate in paddywhackery !!
It was Erskine Childer’s father who was the writer.
Hillery’s golf handicap sums up his presidency
It’s well known that De Valera,as Taoiseach, went to the German embassy and offered condolences to the Nazis on the death of Adolf Hitler.
I never knew that President Douglas Hyde did the same thing.
Ireland’s best kept dirty secret?
Not a ‘dirty secret’ – as a neutral country, Hyde was acting appropriately as Head of State rather than expressing a personal view
Research fail…
What a horrible Americanism If you are american I forgive you
@fitszpatrick
How is “X fail” an Americanism? I has thought it was more of an Internetism. Fail is the opposite of win and both can be used as nouns.
In other news, what horrible capitalisation and lack of punctuation. If you are under the age of ten, I forgive you.
Like ur fail is the opposite of succeed and lose is the opposite of win. Enough already Eva. If you are woman I forgive you
No mention of the “small joke” which JFK cracked in the Dáil and which so annoyed Dev. What was it?
Hi Pete,
Thanks for your comment. The story was told by Ryan Tubridy in his JFK in Ireland book last year. He discovered that de Valera had wiped the offending part of JFK’s address to the Dáil from the record – quite extraordinary!
The “joke” was a reference to Lord Edward Fitzgerald’s line “Leinster House does not inspire the brightest ideas.”
JFK seemingly meant it as a light hearted quip, as he added, “that was a long time ago, however”. It wasn’t enough to appease Dev, according to Seán Lemass, who heard him tell the young American that “he had done no service to Irish politicians by this quotation”.
The whole story (is a bit longer than this – so wasn’t really suitable for this article) can be read in that book if you’re interested. Hope this answers your question.
Thanks again for your feedback.
Best,
Sinead
It is also ironic that Erskine Childers was executed by the Free State government for possession of a pistol that was a gift from Michael Collins.
Where’s the explanation of the caption under the picture?
Brutal work.
Hi
Thanks for your comment. The story was told by Ryan Tubridy in his JFK in Ireland book last year. He discovered that de Valera had wiped the offending part of JFK’s address to the Dáil from the record – quite extraordinary!
The “joke” was a reference to Lord Edward Fitzgerald’s line “Leinster House does not inspire the brightest ideas.”
JFK seemingly meant it as a light hearted quip, as he added, “that was a long time ago, however”. It wasn’t enough to appease Dev, according to Seán Lemass, who heard him tell the young American that “he had done no service to Irish politicians by this quotation”.
The whole story (is a bit longer than this – so wasn’t really suitable for this article) can be read in that book if you’re interested. Hope this answers your question.
Sinead
Nothing wrong with Darby O’Gills and the Little People.
It’s a fine Cork pub.
“One of the last presidential acts of Douglas Hyde was to visit the German ambassador Eduard Hempel on May 3, 1945. During the visit, which remained a secret until 2005, he reportedly offered his condolences on the death of Adolf Hitler.”
It did not ‘remain a secret until 2005′. It was widely known and circulated at the time and afterwards. It was common knowlege when I was growing up, learning history at secondary school and subsequently at third level. In case you’re wondering I’m no six year old.
Anyone got video of Mary Robinson on the Den? looks like it was in The Best Bits of the Den DVD
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