{"id":102962,"date":"2025-10-25T06:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/102962\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T06:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:56:09","slug":"what-would-a-new-ssia-like-savings-scheme-look-like-and-how-would-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/102962\/","title":{"rendered":"What would a new SSIA-like savings scheme look like and how would it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">A new SSIA-style savings incentive has been suggested as an alternative to low-return deposit accounts. Economists and financial advisers outline how it might work\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The original SSIA was designed to control inflation. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/26d229f0-4fcd-4099-97af-62cd5318047c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The original SSIA was designed to control inflation. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In the spring of 2007, Ireland was awash with optimism and cash as the first wave of Special Savings Incentive Accounts (SSIAs) matured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Suddenly, more than a million people found themselves in possession of windfalls, a welcome boost towards kitchen extensions, new cars, and long-promised holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new SSIA-style savings incentive has been suggested as an alternative to low-return deposit accounts. Economists and financial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20927,2606,7781,61,3938,60,43,11522,2987],"class_list":["post-102962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-central-bank-of-ireland","tag-ecb","tag-geraldine-herbert","tag-ie","tag-investments","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-revenue-commissioners","tag-savings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}