Social welfare Christmas payments: Dates, when are the increases and is there a double payment?
Social welfare recipients will receive two payments at the same time this week
Child Benefit
Higher inheritance tax threshold will not apply just because you have yet to get inheritance
VAT on heat pumps, the non-contributory pension and savings, and bonus child benefit payments exercise readers
Double pension and child benefit payments and cost-of-living lump sums to be paid by December 3rd
Timing of the payments will likely fuel speculation around an early general election
Mortgage interest relief: How do I qualify for the tax credit of up to €1,250?
Budget 2025 triggered a range of queries from readers on issues including child benefit for newborns and landlord tax relief
Childcare industry says level of support in budget like a ‘kick in the stomach’
Budget 2025: Increases in funding for early learning and childcare ‘utterly insufficient’, say providers
Budget 2025 will only increase rich-poor gap, Social Justice Ireland says
Budget measures fail to match the stated ambition of tackling child poverty, says NGO
Budget 2025: Opposition calls for election as Coalition defends budget ‘bonanza’ in face of fierce criticism
Labour says budget was ‘all glitter and full of shiny gimmicks’; Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has said she ‘wants to see a full restoration’ of barristers fees
Was the budget designed to help the country’s poorest children or those of the richest?
Budget 2025: Spending the same amount cutting inheritance tax as went to permanent payments targeted at the poorest children was an odd choice
‘I still can’t afford a house’: What the budget means for a teacher, renter, landlord, farmer and others
Budget 2025: Measures aimed at tackling the cost of living are underwhelming for some
Budget 2025: Double child benefit payment; petrol and diesel prices to increase; series of personal tax cuts
The final cost of living package will now come in at just shy of €2 billion, well in excess of the €1.5bn expected
Once-off payments will be welcomed but the payback will be modest social welfare increases
Budget 2025: Voters will no doubt feel some warm glow of extra money in their pockets, but it will be short-lived
Double child benefit and increased welfare payments among record social protection budget
Budget 2025: Weekly €12 increase across social welfare payments and double payments of child benefit - of €280 each - among rise in payments to families, pensioners and carers
‘No massive turning of the dial’: families will benefit, but not by as much as hoped
Budget 2025: Changes on the income tax front are more muted than a giveaway budget might suggest, with increased cost of living also eating into households’ gains. And some workers might even find that they will be worse off
Budget 2025 main points: Energy credits, bonus welfare payments, higher minimum wage and tax changes
USC cut to 3%; extra credits for renters; 10,000 new social homes to built and free public transport for under-9s
Budget 2025: Jack Chambers’s speech to the Dáil in full
Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure addressed the Dáil on Tuesday
Double child benefit weeks? Higher electricity bills? Five key decisions for October’s budget
Tax is the number one thorny issue for the Government to deal with
From now on, don’t believe anything that anyone says about the budget
Everyone is spinning a yarn ahead of October 1st — as Roy Keane might say, ‘they are only doing their jobs’
Ireland has a bigger welfare state than almost anywhere in the world
The biggest opponents of neoliberalism are also, inexplicably, the biggest opponents of a wealth tax on land and property
Means-testing of asylum seekers’ allowance risks ‘pushing families into poverty’, say support groups
Refugee support organisations question Government’s timing of announcement ahead of elections
Ireland has made vital progress in tackling child poverty but no child can be left behind
If we do not pay attention to children today, they may force us to pay attention to them as troubled adults tomorrow
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