Sinn Féin alternative Budget 2026 includes €450 energy credit and cuts to USC and college fees
Social Democrats propose €15 increase to weekly welfare payments while Labour would extend free public transport to all under-18s
Carer's Allowance
A year on from the failed referendums, has anything changed for carers and families?
Women can participate in the paid workforce if they want to, even if the work is often precarious and 'greedy'. What they often can’t do is afford a home within reasonable distance of family and workplace
Living in deprivation: ‘I felt so ashamed that I couldn’t provide properly for my children’
Latest CSO figures show almost half of lone parents with children aged under 18 struggle to make ends meet
Abolishing means testing of carer’s allowance could cost €3bn a year
Social welfare overpayments of €558 million also noted in briefing note for new Minister for Social Protection
Carers and the election: ‘I had to borrow €35,000 because my son has never had a public therapy session’
Winners at Netwatch Family Carer of the Year Awards call on next Government to improve services
Mother who fought for school places for autistic, non-verbal twins named Family Carer of the Year
Sarah Dooley from Co Laois takes overall award as five young carers also honoured at this year’s Netwatch Family Carer of the Year ceremony
A helping hand with the cost of caring: what supports are available?
Helping to care for a relative is a big commitment and inevitably a financial strain but there are some ways of reducing the impact on your pocket
Fine Gael to court grey vote with slew of promises
Party’s general election manifesto to provide ‘older persons’ guarantee’ including extending free TV licences and payments for heating bills
Supreme Court to rule on ‘systemically important’ carer’s allowance case
Decision could have profound effect on State’s obligations to carers of severely disabled children
I’m a full-time carer for my mother and disabled brother. Am I entitled to any State support?
Family carers are among the most invisible people in society and save the State billions of euro - but you may be entitled to carer’s allowance
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
Budget 2025 Q&A: Your PAYE tax breaks, mortgage relief and employee gift limit queries answered
Dominic Coyle of The Irish Times and Beryl Power from PwC answered readers’ questions in our post-budget live blog which has now finished. You can read back on all the questions and answers below
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
Budget 2025: Paschal Donohoe’s speech to the Dáil in full
Minister for Public Expenditure spoke immediately after the Minister for Finance
Budget 2025: Jack Chambers’s speech to the Dáil in full
Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure addressed the Dáil on Tuesday
Budget 2025: What we know so far – from tax cuts to pension increases and free schoolbooks
This year’s measures will be framed around tax and spending package of €8.3bn, with cost-of-living bundle worth roughly €1.5bn
‘It is a disgrace that we should be worse off financially because we have an adult daughter with a disability’
Anne Murray intends to take a day off from her caring role on April 11th to attend the woman’s appeal in Dublin
Tax changes, social welfare increases and minimum wage rise take effect from Monday
Social welfare payments increase, while changes to tax credits and bands should see workers paying about €800 less
Energy credits, tax cuts, welfare hikes: Key dates when people will get budget money
Energy credits, increased social welfare payments and changes to tax and USC bands are on the way
Budget 2024 main points
Tax package worth around €800 per person, a €12 weekly increase to welfare and pension payments, and mortgage interest rate tax relief announced
Budget ‘positive’ for carers: ‘There is at least some recognition of the challenges we face’
Income disregard increase to €450 for single people and €900 for couples will be welcomed
Budget 2024, by a renter, a landlord, a teacher and more: ‘We are the squeezed middle’
Those who are not on the poverty line, yet still struggle, say they need support too
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