Working family payment

A double social welfare payment will be paid next week while a double Child Benefit payment will be paid at the start of next month.

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The cost-of-living payments are focused on pensioners, carers, people with disabilities, and working families.

Ms Humphreys confirmed that the annual Christmas bonus double payment will be paid the week starting December, 5. From January next year 81,000 more households will be eligible for the fuel allowance. Also from November 14, a €200 lump-sum payment will be made to 234,000 people in receipt of the living alone allowance.

The cost-of-living payments, announced recently on budget day, will focus on pensioners, carers, people with disabilities, and working families.

Ms Humphreys confirmed that the annual Christmas bonus double payment will be paid the week starting December 5th. A €500 disability support grant will also be paid that week to 216,000 people receiving disability allowance, blind pension and invalidity pension. It will be paid to most people who get a weekly social welfare payment including all pensioners, carers and people on disability payments.

The first double welfare payment set out in last month's budget will be paid next week on 17th October. In total, the Government set aside €1.2 billion in ...

Minister Heather Humphreys also announced that the double child benefit payment will be made to 639,000 families across the country on 1st November. That week, there will also be a €500 disability support payment to people receiving Disability Allowance, the Blind Pension and the Invalidity Pension.