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Households warned to avoid text scam ahead of first electricity credit payment
Crime
Fraudsters are claiming to be from an official government website and lure victims in with the false promise of a discounted electricity bill
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Social welfare Ireland: Exact dates hundreds of thousands will get lump sum cost of living payments
Social welfare
The lump sum supports this week will be for Carers, those in receipt of the Living Alone Allowance and people who receive an Increase for a Qualified Child on their primary social welfare payment
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Social welfare Ireland: Date confirmed for bonus payment in 2024
Social welfare
Recipients are expecting their standard Christmas payment next week but a second bonus sum is on its way
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Social welfare Ireland: Three groups to receive bonus payments from Monday
Social welfare
The first batch of bonus payments announced in the Budget were paid last week but more are on the way
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Social welfare Ireland: Date second bonus payment will be issued
The Budget
It will be paid to all those on long-term social welfare payments
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Social welfare: Exact dates PRSI increases kick-in and who will be affected
Sinn Fein
The decision to keep the state pension age at 66 is claimed to entail expenditures that will be paid by PRSI increases
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Social welfare Ireland: Unemployed workers could get up to €450 per week in radical overhaul
Social welfare
The payment will be put in place for three months before gradually being reduced over a nine-month period, after which workers can apply for Jobseeker’s Allowance
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Social welfare Ireland: Hundreds of thousands to receive once-off lump sum payments this week
Social welfare
Nine bonus social welfare payments will be made between now and January
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Major boost for workers as sick pay leave extended to five days in January with cap of €110 per day
Employment
The changes will come into effect from January 1, 2024 and will benefit thousands of workers
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Social welfare Ireland: Free GP visit cards come online for 200,000 people today
Health
Almost 850,000 people are now eligible for free GP care
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Social welfare Ireland: Six conditions to meet in order to get newly increased payment of €232
Social welfare
The Minister for Social Protection, Heather Humphreys, is set to increase a weekly payment previously worth €220 up to €232 within the next few months - here's how to qualify for it
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Social welfare Ireland: Full list of bonus payments due in December and January
Social welfare
The bonus payments were confirmed during last month's Budget
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Social welfare Ireland: Full list of bonus payments due in November
Social welfare
The payments were announced in Budget 2024
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Social welfare Ireland: Date confirmed for Christmas Bonus 2023
Social welfare
The bonus lump sum amounts to 100% of your usual welfare payment
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Social welfare Ireland: Four conditions to qualify for looming €400 once-off payment
Social welfare
The lump sum addition Working Family Payment will be paid next month after being confirmed in Budget 2024
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Social welfare Ireland: Dates and who is eligible for €300 payment due in weeks
Social welfare
The €300 bonus lump sum if one of a string of one-off payments announced in Budget 2024
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Social welfare Ireland: Simon Harris confirms date of double child benefit payment
Social welfare
Parents were granted a one-off double child benefit payment under the last budget
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Social welfare Ireland: All you need to know about €400 bonus payment for families due in weeks
Social welfare
The cost of living lump sum will be made in the coming weeks
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Social welfare Ireland: Payment date shake-up due to October bank holiday
Social welfare
You may receive your social welfare payment earlier during the week of the bank holiday
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Social welfare Ireland: Dates for lump sum payments and energy credits confirmed
Social welfare
Ministers will be signing off on a number of cost of living and social welfare measures that were announced for Budget 2024
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Social welfare Ireland: Everything we know about date for bonus Child Benefit payment
The Budget
The payment is one of the highlights of the Government's Budget 2024 package
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Social welfare Ireland: Eligible groups for €300 or €400 cost of living lump sum next month
Cost of Living
The announcement of Budget 2024 has come and gone, with major double payments and cost of living lump sums lined up for specific social welfare recipients in the next few months
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Budget 2024: 'Generous' package still 'an insult' to some on Dublin's streets
The Budget
We took to the streets of capital to ask Dubliners what they thought of yesterday's Budget announcement
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Dates for one-off social welfare and energy credits confirmed in Budget 2024
Social welfare
The total social protection package is worth €1.1bn and includes a range of one-off payments
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