The 2021 Act\u00a0 S. 22 provides for increases for qualified children and living alone allowance for social assistance payments.<\/p>\n
The 2021 Act\u00a0 S. 23 and Schedule 2 provides for increases in the rates of social assistance payments including a \u20ac5 per week increase in the personal rate. It also provides for an increase in relation to qualified adults, where relevant.<\/p>\n
The 2021 Act\u00a0 S. 19 and Schedule 1 provides for increases in the rates of social insurance payments including a \u20ac5 per week increase in the personal rate ofbenefit. It also provides, where relevant, for a weekly increase for qualified adults and qualified children.<\/p>\n
Social insurance benefits \u2013 new rates of increase for qualified child and living alone allowance<\/p>\n
The 2021 Act\u00a0\u00a0 provides for increases in the qualified child payment and the living alone allowance for claimants in receipt of social insurance benefits.<\/p>\n
The increase in the living alone allowance targets recipients who are at greater risk of falling below the “at-risk-of-poverty” line than those who are married or cohabiting.<\/p>\n\n
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Overview Persons in receipt of Social Welfare Payments are entitled to an increase in respect of a qualified child, separate from child benefit. The same broad conditions as apply to child benefit are applicable. Child increments are at a flat rate. A half rate increment applies where the spouse or partners is not a qualified […]<\/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":[284],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19806"}],"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=19806"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31026,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19806\/revisions\/31026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}