25% bonus this Xmas to social welfare recipients

[Brendan Burgess]

http://budget.gov.ie/Budgets/2015/EstimateStatement.aspx

The outturn figures for unemployment for this year 2014 are much better than forecast. The Government has decided to allocate a portion of these savings to pay a 25% bonus to social welfare recipients this coming Christmas.


This is a current year payment from 2014 figures. Whether a similar bonus will be paid at Christmas 2015 will again depend on the availability of sufficient savings in next year’s Social Protection vote.

 

[flowerman]

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Theres lots of social wellfare payments,so which ones exactly will get it?

Job Seekers?
Invalidity Pension?
Disablement Pension?

And so on.

 

[Brendan Burgess]

I presume from the speech, now quoted in the first post, all social welfare recipients.

Brendan

 

[flowerman]

I presume from the speech, now quoted in the first post, all social welfare recipients.

Brendan

I think it would be a nice gesture to anyone on SW who is in severe hardship at the moment,so heres hoping its all SW payments.

 

[flowerman]

According to RTE 6.1 News there just now,it applies to pensioners and long term unemployed.

 

[flowerman]

Looks like it's most of them - there's a list here .
http://www.*****************.com/social-welfare-25-christmas-bonus-budget-2015.html

It's costing 63 million!

Thanks for the link.


I love the last paragraph.......


"It is not means tested – so a millionaire on a state pension will get the same bonus as every other person on a state pension".

 

[marathonic]

Thanks for the link.


I love the last paragraph.......


"It is not means tested – so a millionaire on a state pension will get the same bonus as every other person on a state pension".

There'll likely be people complaining about this, not realizing that the administration of the means testing would cost well in excess of the money saved by doing so.

 

[Time]

According to RTE 6.1 News there just now,it applies to pensioners and long term unemployed.

That was always the case. The bonus never applied to anyone getting short term payments.

 

[moneybox]

considering this was a budget for the wealthy, I think this was a very measly gesture towards the least well off in our society, an extra 40 or €50 euro at Christmas to the struggling family relaying on social welfare payments. Very little was offered in yesterday's budget to ease the burden of the 400,000 + unemployed people who are left languishing on the dole.

 

[roker]

They paid in the same as everyone else

 

[pudds]

I finished on a ce scheme in January and have been on jsa since, and I got no christmas bonus, but if I was still on ce I would get it.

I cant see any sense or logic in that!