Budget 2007 - Income Support
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Increase of €20 to over €185.80 per week to benefit the following:
- Invalidity Pension recipients aged under 65
- Widow’s & Widower’s Non-Contributory Pension and women in receipt of Deserted Wife’s Allowance
- Disablement Pension
- Jobseekers Benefit & Allowance
- Illness Benefit
- Disability Allowance
- Blind Pension
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance
- Farm Assist
- One-Parent Family Payment
Increase of €19.10 to €213.70 per week for Death Benefit Pensioners under 66
Increase of €20 to €158 per week for Guardian’s Payments (January 2007)
(The above increases apply to full rate payments and there are proportionate increases for recipients of reduced rate payments.)
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