The Fuel Allowance will be paid to 410,000 households across the country from Monday with the aim of helping people\u00a0meet the rising cost of energy bills this winter.<\/p>\n
The payment is made at a weekly rate of \u20ac33 or, if preferred, through two instalments of \u20ac462 each.<\/p>\n
Social Protection Minister, Dara Calleary, said it is a vital payment heading into winter.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Newstalk, he said: “It’s very important for this time of year.<\/p>\n
“We don’t want people to have to make energy sacrifices, particularly as we come into the winter.<\/p>\n
“That’s why the Fuel Allowance is important, and that’s why it will be a focus for Budget 2026 as well.”<\/p>\n
This Fuel Allowance season starts on Monday, September 22nd, 2025, and will be paid for 28 weeks until April 2026.<\/p>\n
To get Fuel Allowance you must:<\/p>\n
Be aged 66 or over;
\nBe under 66 and get a qualifying social welfare payment;
\nLive alone (or only with certain people);
\nSatisfy a means test.<\/p>\n
You must also live in Ireland. You cannot get Fuel Allowance if your heating costs are provided in full as part of your accommodation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fuel Allowance will be paid to 410,000 households across the country from Monday with the aim of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-36245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/36245","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=36245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}