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# Child Benefit

This year
2024
Plans to extend child benefit to over-18s still in education brought forward to May
Updated 13 Feb
21.5k
26
Last year
2023
Social welfare rates reduced for new Ukrainian arrivals as new reception centres to be rolled out
A subsistence payment of €38.80 per week will be provided to those in state accommodation for 90 days.
The reduced subsistence payment will be made for the 90-day period, with an additional payment of €29.80 per child per week.
Minister Roderic O'Gorman says he doesn't envisage that homelessness will rise as a result of the new changes.
New reception centres are to come online next year.
Updated 12 Dec 2023
20.9k
Government has ignored children in Direct Provision, Children's Rights Alliance says
4 Dec 2023
7.0k
Double child benefit for around 650,000 families to be paid tomorrow
4 Dec 2023
23.6k
60
Double Child Benefit payment 'before Christmas' announced in Budget 2024
10 Oct 2023
173k
6
Government plans to extend child benefit to over-18s still in school as part of Budget
Updated 15 Sep 2023
58.1k
43
Means-tested extra child benefit payment could lift 40,000 children out of poverty
7 Sep 2023
48.4k
92
650,000 families to receive an additional €100 per child in benefit payments today
6 Jun 2023
13.9k
24
The government has announced a new cost-of-living package. Here's what's in it
21 Feb 2023
83.9k
77
All time
Dr Laura Bambrick: Why pay child benefit to wealthy parents?
Dr Laura Bambrick
7 Nov 2022
27.7k
45
Social welfare supports of €141.4m provided to Ukrainians this year
2 Nov 2022
25.2k
40
The double child benefit payment of €280 announced in the Budget is being paid today
Updated 1 Nov 2022
38.0k
35
Double child benefit payment, welfare hikes and tax changes - here's what to expect in the Budget
13 Aug 2022
140k
82
Child benefit instalment unpaid for older teenagers due to delay with forms
7 Jul 2021
27.3k
3
Fine Gael distances itself from councillor's comments that child benefit can be a 'subsidy to have sex'
25 May 2021
61.5k
80
Man who fraudulently claimed over €225,000 in social welfare admits to falsely claiming a further €18,000
20 Jan 2020
62.2k
48
Department seeks judicial review after watchdog rules child benefit data collection unlawful
2 Aug 2019
13.5k
Problem over payment of child benefit to Irish parents 'resolved' following industry-wide banking issue
2 Oct 2018
39.1k
71
Poll: Do you support means testing the child benefit payment?
6 Jun 2018
24.6k
151
Social Protection Minister rules out means testing child benefit payment
5 Jun 2018
15.6k
151
Have kids? Here's what Budget 2018 means for parents
10 Oct 2017
82.9k
32
Poll: Should parents who don't get vaccinations for their children have child benefit cut in half?
3 May 2017
45.5k
507
Giving parents a tax credit for childcare would have cost nearly €600m
17 Oct 2016
13.9k
18
Child benefit will NOT be linked to school attendance
25 May 2016
12.1k
68
The Debate Room: Should Child Benefit be linked to school attendance?
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
14 May 2016
1.5k
99
Poll: Do you support child benefit being linked to school attendance?
11 May 2016
34.6k
215
Here's how families will be affected by the Budget
13 Oct 2015
18.2k
39
Here's everything we know about the Budget so far
12 Oct 2015
33.8k
95
Your USC is being cut, but what else do we know about Budget 2016?
14 Sep 2015
46.8k
101
Joan slams social welfare fraudsters for 'giving two fingers to their neighbours'
24 Jun 2015
25.8k
137
€10m in child benefit was paid to people not entitled to it
27 May 2015
21.3k
46
Some Leaving Cert students don't get Child Benefit - because of their age
29 Jan 2015
48.7k
50
Child benefit is 'staying as it is', regardless of what the IMF says
28 Jan 2015
17.5k
81
How much were fraudulent Child Benefit claims costing the country?
14 Dec 2014
16.2k
85
Here's the 'child benefit' tweet a Cork bar was forced to apologise over
15 Oct 2014
9.5k
7
Child benefit could be increased by even more than a fiver in Budget 2016
15 Oct 2014
10.8k
52
Child Benefit: €5 extra per child, per month for parents
14 Oct 2014
21.0k
101
Howlin wants to know what you think about public bodies sharing data
3 Aug 2014
6.3k
38
'No evidence' that disproportionately high number of migrants receive social welfare
17 Jul 2014
10.9k
82
Here's what the social welfare budget paid for last year
9 Jul 2014
20.3k
76
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