{"id":168424,"date":"2025-12-01T00:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168424\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:58:10","slug":"1-5m-to-receive-christmas-bonus-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168424\/","title":{"rendered":"1.5m to receive Christmas bonus payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas bonus payments totalling 370 million euro will be paid to around 1.5 million long-term social welfare recipients in Ireland, the Government has announced.<\/p>\n<p>Pensioners, carers and people with disabilities will be among those receiving the bonus on the same day they usually receive their weekly pension or other primary payment.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Social Protection Dara Calleary said: \u201cI am very conscious of the pressure families are under particularly in the run up to Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Christmas Bonus is a vital support, particularly for our senior citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christmas bonus payments totalling 370 million euro will be paid to around 1.5 million long-term social welfare recipients&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9484,16570,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-168424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-christmas","tag-dara-calleary","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168424","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=168424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}