Ireland's Budget 2025 has brought several benefits for the population, including cost-of-living bonuses and increased social welfare rates. However, five specific groups will not see any increase in their payments.
A number of measures providing additional benefits to large swathes of the population in Ireland have come into effect since Budget 2025 was announced back in October. These include items such as the cost-of-living bonus, an electricity credit, a pre-Christmas double child benefit payment and more.
A major change that will come into effect from the start of next year is an increase to core weekly social welfare rates, but five major groups will not see any increase in their rates of payment, reports RSVP Live. These groups are those that are entitled to the following: Back To School Clothing and Footwear Allowance, Child Benefit, Fuel Allowance, Living Alone Increase or Island Increase. In increases elsewhere, meanwhile, the maximum weekly rate of Maternity Benefit, Adoptive Benefit, Paternity Benefit and Parent's Benefit will rise by €15. The Increase for a Qualified Child (IQC) will be renamed the Child Support Payment. The weekly rate will increase by €4 from €46 to €50, for children under 12 years of age. It will increase by €8 from €54 to €62 for children aged 12 years and over. All other weekly social welfare payments will increase by €12 with proportional increases for qualified adults and people on reduced rates of payment. The list of social welfare payments that will be increased are as follows: As well as weekly increases for social welfare payments, there will also be a monthly increase of €20 to the Domiciliary Care Allowance, and the annual Carer's Support Grant will rise by €150. All family sizes will benefit from a €60 weekly increase in the The Working Family Payment income limits and next July, the Carer's Allowance income disregard will increase to €625 for a single person and €1,250 for a coupl
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