Finance Act 2022 provides an exemption from income tax for a payment known as Covid-19 Related Lay-off Payment (\u201cCRLP\u201d). This payment was legislated for under the Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Act 2022 and, subject to certain conditions, is payable to individuals who lost the opportunity to accrue reckonable service due to layoffs as a result of Covid-19 related restrictions during the period 13 March 2020 to 31 January 2022. The tax exemption applies to payments made on or after 19 April 2022.<\/p>\n\n
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Social Protection Payments Many social welfare benefits are not taxable, including jobseekers assistance; child benefit bereavement grant disability allowance; family income supplement; and maternity benefits. Jobseekers benefit and disability benefit are taxable, subject to certain exemption within limits.\u00a0 Short term jobseekers benefit is exempt.\u00a0 The benefit is short-term where the number of days worked is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[339],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11150"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21717,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150\/revisions\/21717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}