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<\/p>\nThe Fuel Allowance season normally begins in late September of each year and ends in April<\/p>\n
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The Fuel Allowance has been extended by one month as part of a series of measures introduced by the Government to tackle soaring fuel costs.<\/a><\/p>\n A \u20ac250m package unveiled by the Government <\/a>last month aimed at giving relief to households and businesses facing surging fuel costs amid the war in the Middle East<\/a>. The extension of the Fuel Allowance has benefitted over 470,000 households.<\/p>\n The Fuel Allowance season normally begins in late September of each year and ends in April. The 2025\/2026 Fuel Allowance season started on Monday, 22 September 2025 and it is paid for 28 weeks.<\/p>\n The scheme has now been extended until May 1 due to the recent increases in fuel costs. The Fuel Allowance is worth \u20ac38 per week, so the extension is worth a total of \u20ac152 for eligible households.<\/p>\n The other measures introduced by the Government include cutting excise duty on diesel by 20 per cent and petrol by 15 per cent. The National Oil Reserves Agency (NORA) levy of 2 cent per litre has also been suspended, bringing the effective reduction to 22 cent on diesel and 17 cent on petrol. The Government has also increased the maximum repayment allowable under the Diesel Rebate Scheme, from 7.5 cent up to 12 cent per litre of diesel.<\/p>\n This has been backdated to January 1 and remain in place until June 30.<\/p>\n Want to see more of the stories you love from Dublin Live? Making us your preferred source on Google<\/a> means you\u2019ll get more of our exclusives, top stories and must-read content straight away. To add Dublin Live as a preferred source, simply click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Join our Dublin Live breaking news service on WhatsApp. Click this link <\/a>to receive your daily dose of Dublin Live content.<\/p>\n We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you\u2019re curious, you can read our Privacy Notice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fuel Allowance season normally begins in late September of each year and ends in April Stock image(Image:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,943,37635,61,60,11258,10243],"class_list":["post-382871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cost-of-living","tag-energy-crisis","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-social-welfare","tag-your-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382871","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=382871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}