2025 Budget proposed to prioritize pensioners, carers, disabled, and double child benefit, but long-term unemployment welfare may not be boosted.

Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys suggests Budget 2025 may prioritize pensioners, carers, and disabled individuals, with possible lump-sum payments for pensioners and a double child benefit payment. Long-term unemployment welfare payments may not receive a boost in the budget. Ministers defend the Irish government's record in addressing the income gap and cost-of-living crisis, citing increased social welfare payments and targeted investments in disadvantaged communities.

August 01, 2024
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