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FOUR COST OF living payments that were announced as part of Budget 2025 will be paid this week.
Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys today outlined the details of the lump sum supports due to be paid out.
A €300 Fuel Allowance lump sum payment will be paid to over 400,000 households on dates throughout the week, depending on the recipient.
On Tuesday, a double Child Benefit payment will be paid to 667,000 families in respect over 1.2 million children.
From Wednesday to Friday, a €400 Disability Support Payment will be paid to 213,000 people with disabilities who receive Disability Allowance, Invalidity Pension or the Blind Pension.
On Thursday, a €400 Working Family Payment will be paid to 46,000 households.
People will receive the lump sum payments in addition to and on the same day that they usually receive their primary payment.
All of the lump sum supports are automatically paid to eligible recipients, with no application required.
“This suite of lump sum payments means that people will have extra money in their pockets, which will ease the pressure and stress that many households are facing,” Minister Humphreys said.
A further five lump sum payments announced in Budget 2025 will be paid over the coming weeks, including a €400 Carer’s Support payment, a second double Child Benefit payment, and the Christmas Bonus payments in early December.
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I didn’t even know she was still going… wow! Now that is what you call dedication. Fair play to her!
@Daniel Skelton: That’s nothing compared to the Limerick Actor Willie O’Dea who has provided great entertainment and drama to the great people of the mid west coming up now
on 50 years or so it seems.
She opened Nutgrove Shopping Centre , there ya go , fact of the day .
@Ray Buckley: Nutgrove Shopping Centre was the first McDonald’s drive thru restaurant in Europe. Another fact for you.
50 years on the soap? She must be clean as a whistle!
Saw her in a forest in Kerry once.
@Don Johnson: Saw her at an exhibition in Earl’s Court in London looking despondent and unrecognised.
She is lovely little thing and brings back memories of the gerbil i used to have as a pet, Gary.
ET’s. Ma
Good Riddance &bring the rest of em with ya
@John O brien: you seem in good form today John
@John O brien: do you want salt with that chip on your shoulder
@John O brien: I was always told if you can’t say anything nice say nothing at all it only shows your mentality
@David Harries: so if it’s not nice say nothing …the truth sometimes is not nice ..should we not tell the truth either cause it’s not nice?!
@damien leen: those who delight in being brutally honest frequently value the brutality far more than the honesty.
@Setanta O’Toole: Jesus wept!
@brian madden: I’m in great form thanks
@John O brien:
If you have nothing decent to say about anyone, whoever they may be, I for one would suggest that you keep thoughts and comments like that to yourself
@damien leen: “telling the truth” isn’t an issue when it’s about who likes or doesn’t like one television soap opera.
Some going. Fair play to her.
How many champions leagues is that now
Luka Modrić just signed a 1 year contract
She’s gone full-time with the mutant ninja turtles!
Pleae kill me
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