{"id":211622,"date":"2025-12-26T09:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211622\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:45:07","slug":"increases-to-social-welfare-and-post-christmas-payment-dates-in-ireland-revealed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211622\/","title":{"rendered":"Increases to social welfare and post-Christmas payment dates in Ireland revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social welfare payments that are typically received by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/2117\/national\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Irish<\/a> people around Christmas and New Year have been adjusted to different dates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you were expecting a payment on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or St Stephen&#8217;s Day, you should have received that during the week commencing December 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If your payment is due on January 1, you will receive this early too.<\/p>\n<p>It will be paid on December 31 instead.<\/p>\n<p>These changes apply whether you get paid at the local post office, by cheque, or directly into your bank account.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/news\/national-news\/1969868\/young-girl-undergoes-life-saving-surgeries-after-losing-both-legs-in-tragic-accident.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Young girl undergoes life-saving surgeries after losing both legs in tragic accident<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A welcome announcement for 2026 is that the rate of most weekly social welfare payments will increase by \u20ac10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Child Support Payments will increase by \u20ac8 per week jumping from \u20ac50 to \u20ac58 for children under 12.<\/p>\n<p>An increase of \u20ac16 will be put in place for children aged over 12, meaning the payment will jump from \u20ac62 or \u20ac78.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Working Family Payment\u202fincome limits will increase by \u20ac60 a week for all family sizes from January.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel Allowance will see an increase of \u20ac5 to \u20ac38 per week, and those receiving the Working Family Payment will also become eligible for the Fuel Allowance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Christmas bonus, which is the equivalent of 100% of your payment, should have been paid in December if you are eligible for one.<\/p>\n<p>Other payment changes that were announced in Budget 2026 will be introduced later in the year.\u00a0<\/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":"Social welfare payments that are typically received by Irish people around Christmas and New Year have been adjusted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9484,1523,61,60,43,11258],"class_list":["post-211622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-christmas","tag-government","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-social-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211622","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=211622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}