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Christmas payment will be paid to 1.4 million social welfare recipients next week
The cost of this year’s Christmas payment will be €313 million.
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The cost of this year’s Christmas payment will be €313 million.
The Pandemic Unemployment Payment will be available until March of next year.
Some cases progressed more slowly due to their complexity and due to inadequate or inaccurate information provided.
All will be revealed on Tuesday.
The cost of the Christmas bonus this year will be €279.4 million.
Pearse Doherty said Christmas comes every year, yet the bonus hasn’t been factored into spending.
The Christmas bonus will be fully restored for the first time since the economic downturn.
She said people on welfare payments were needlessly worried by news reports this morning.
Abolished in 2009, the Christmas bonus was partially restored by the then Tánaiste Joan Burton in 2014 and has increased to the current 85%.
But the Social Protection minister says that other changes to social welfare payments are “in limbo”.
Refunds totalling €173 million will be paid to 990,000 customers.
The cost of the Christmas bonus is €219 million.
This year’s bonus will be 85% of a welfare recipient’s weekly payment.
Some 1.2 million people will receive the extra money.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the matter is being discussed ahead of October’s Budget.
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It has been increased by 75% this year.
The bonus is paid to long-term welfare claimants such as jobseekers, pensioners, carers, lone-parents and those with a disability.
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The Tánaiste is in a giving mood and says the partial restoration of the bonus this year is “a start”.
Jobseekers need to be claiming for 15 months to receive the payment.
Age Action says it would welcome the return of the Christmas Bonus in next week’s Budget.
The Tánaiste wasn’t ruling it out when asked today.
Enda Kenny was described as ‘Scrooge’ in the Dáil chamber this afternoon.
A reintroduction of the Christmas bonus would be a huge boost for both people who rely on social welfare payments and for the economy, writes Patrick Nulty TD.
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