After the Budget – the following Welfare payments will be reduced by €8.30 per week from January 1st 2010
* Jobseeker’s Benefit
* Jobseeker’s Allowance
* Supplementary Welfare Allowance
* One-Parent Family Payment
* Prisoner’s Wife’s Allowance
* Pre-Retirement Allowance
* Farm Assist
* Health and Safety Benefit
* Widow’s and Widower’s (Contributory) Pension (under 66)
* Widow’s and Widower’s (Non-Contributory) Pension
* Guardian’s Payment (Contributory)
* Guardian’s Payment (Non-Contributory)
* Deserted Wife’s Allowance
* Deserted Wife’s Benefit (under 66)
Qualified adult rate for the following payments will be reduced by €5.50 per week:
* Jobseeker’s Benefit
* Jobseeker’s Allowance
* Supplementary Welfare Allowance
* Pre-Retirement Allowance
* Farm Assist
* Health and Safety Benefit
* Illness Benefit
* Disability Allowance
* Blind Pension
Injury Benefit
Note: The Qualified child rate for all social welfare payments will be increased by €3.80 per week . This is to balance the reduction in Child Benefit of €16 a month (3.69 a week). So the child benefit cut will not affect people on welfare benefits.
These reductions come after another drop in the cost of living figures in Ireland. Also – recent CSO figures show that many families on Welfare Benefits had larger income increases than workers in recent years. See More about that Here