here<\/a>.<\/p>\nChristmas Bonus<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Christmas Bonus represents a one-off double week payment for individuals receiving a long-term social welfare payment – and it’s valued at 100% of your weekly scheme.<\/p>\n
You don’t need to apply for the Bonus either – if you’re eligible, you’ll receive it automatically. The Christmas Bonus will be distributed in December to individuals receiving a qualifying social welfare payment, and it’s typically paid alongside your social welfare payment.<\/p>\n
Those receiving the following payments will be eligible for the Christmas Bonus:<\/p>\n
\n- Back to Education Allowance<\/li>\n
- Back to Work Enterprise Allowance<\/li>\n
- Back to Work Family Dividend<\/li>\n
- Beneficiary of Temporary Protection Weekly Payment<\/li>\n
- Blind Pension<\/li>\n
- Carer’s Allowance<\/li>\n
- Carer’s Benefit<\/li>\n
- Community Employment<\/li>\n
- Daily Expenses Allowance<\/li>\n
- Deserted Wife’s Allowance<\/li>\n
- Deserted Wife’s Benefit<\/li>\n
- Disability Allowance<\/li>\n
- Disablement Benefit<\/li>\n
- Domiciliary Care Allowance<\/li>\n
- Farm Assist<\/li>\n
- Guardian’s Payment<\/li>\n
- Illness Benefit<\/li>\n
- Invalidity Pension<\/li>\n
- Job Initiative Scheme<\/li>\n
- Jobseeker’s Allowance<\/li>\n
- Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment<\/li>\n
- Magdalen Commission Scheme<\/li>\n
- Death Benefit Scheme (under the Occupational Injuries Scheme)<\/li>\n
- One-Parent Family Payment<\/li>\n
- Partial Capacity Benefit<\/li>\n
- Rural Social Scheme<\/li>\n
- State Pension (Contributory)<\/li>\n
- State Pension (Non-contributory)<\/li>\n
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance (long-term)<\/li>\n
- T\u00fas (community work placement initiative)<\/li>\n
- Bereaved Partner’s (Contributory) Pension<\/li>\n
- Bereaved Partner’s (Non-Contributory) Pension<\/li>\n
- Work Placement Experience Programme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Bills<\/p>\n
Public Service Obligation levy<\/strong><\/p>\nIt’s anticipated that thousands of households will experience a reduction in their electricity costs in December.<\/p>\n
The Public Service Obligation (PSO) levy is a compulsory charge on all electricity customers that funds government schemes supporting renewable and sustainable electricity generation.<\/p>\n
At present, the PSO levy stands at \u20ac2.01 per month (excluding VAT) for domestic customers and \u20ac7.77 for small commercial customers.<\/p>\n
The Commission for the Regulation of Utilities has just announced a new levy rate, which is expected to come into effect on 1 December 2025 and last until 30 September 2026.<\/p>\n
The new rate for domestic customers is set to be \u20ac1.46 per month, while small commercial customers will face a monthly charge of \u20ac5.65.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christmas is a notoriously expensive time of year, but there is good financial news for households across Ireland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,2190,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-208137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cost-of-living","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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