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With Christmas <\/a>just days away, many households across Ireland are feeling the pinch as the cost of living crisis continues.<\/p>\n But there’s good news for thousands of people on social welfare, as the Department of Social Protection is issuing payments early this festive season. The move is designed to make sure recipients aren’t left out of pocket while banks and post offices close for the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n It comes after payments originally due on December 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26 were brought forward during the week beginning Monday, December 15 – meaning many people received a double payment. A similar arrangement has also been confirmed ahead of New Year’s Day, with payments due on January 1 being made early on December 31 instead. This change applies regardless of how schemes are paid out, including by cheque, directly into bank accounts, or by collection.<\/p>\n In a statement on Gov.ie, the Department of Social Protection explained: “If you get a social welfare payment, the date which you receive your payment may change during the Christmas and New Year period.<\/p>\n “If you receive a weekly social welfare payment, you will get your payment as usual during the week commencing Monday 15 December, and an advanced payment for the following week. This applies to payments made at post offices, by cheque or directly into your financial institution account.<\/p>\n “Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Department of Social Protection.”<\/p>\n Looking ahead to 2026, a number of social welfare changes are set to take effect. This includes \u20ac10 boosts to the majority of payments<\/a>, as well as other upgrades to other schemes like the Domiciliary Care Allowance and Fuel allowance.<\/p>\n While the majority of schemes are due for a much-needed boost during the cost-of-living crisis<\/a> however, it’s important to note that some rates are staying the same for 2026. You can find out more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here’s all you need to know\u20ac50 notes (stock) With Christmas just days away, many households across Ireland are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9484,943,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-207942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christmas","tag-cost-of-living","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207942","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=207942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}