Full-time carers will receive the \u20ac2,000 Carer’s Support Grant payment this week, with the annual grant payable to over 147,000 carers.<\/p>\n
The grant is available to all carers providing full-time care to an older person or a person with a disability, regardless of their means or social insurance contributions.<\/p>\n
The overall value of the grant payments is expected to be in the region of \u20ac336 million.<\/p>\n
The grant is paid in respect of each person being cared for.<\/p>\n
Carers will receive their payment in their nominated post office or bank account on Thursday 4 June.<\/p>\n
The Carer\u2019s Support Grant is paid automatically to all people receiving Carer\u2019s Allowance (whether full rate or half rate), Carer\u2019s Benefit, or Domiciliary Care Allowance.<\/p>\n
It is also available to other full-time carers who are not receiving any of these payments.<\/p>\n
Minister Calleary also said that as part of the budget he announced improvements to the weekly income disregard for Carer\u2019s Allowance which will come into effect from next month.<\/p>\n
“As Minister for Social Protection, I want to take this opportunity to thank all carers in Ireland for the vital and valuable contribution you play in our society and in all our local communities,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Full-time carers will receive the \u20ac2,000 Carer’s Support Grant payment this week, with the annual grant payable to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-477238","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\/477238","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=477238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}