{"id":88448,"date":"2025-09-27T08:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T08:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/88448\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T08:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T08:07:09","slug":"budget-2026-carers-allowance-means-test-threshold-to-be-raised-in-budget-social-welfare-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/88448\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2026: Carer\u2019s Allowance means-test threshold to be raised in budget social welfare plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Annual summer grant for carers will also increase by \u20ac100 to \u20ac2,100Row over \u20ac12 pension hike demand, so \u20ac10 welfare increase across the board viewed as likelyFine Gael and Fianna F\u00e1il clash over raising dole payments by the same level as other benefits\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Budget 2026. Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe and Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758960429_306_e143facf-f757-4e7c-a391-6dc71f630c50.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Budget 2026. Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe and Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Reform of the Carer\u2019s Allowance will be a key plank of the social welfare package in the budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Coalition is starting the move towards abolishing means testing of the Carer\u2019s Allowance. Budget 2026 will see the income thresholds raised by \u20ac200 for a single person and \u20ac400 for a couple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Annual summer grant for carers will also increase by \u20ac100 to \u20ac2,100Row over \u20ac12 pension hike demand, so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,10472,20812,18,13,14,4771,553,18613,6,19,17,26736,11,12,15,16,5765,5,46,44,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-88448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-budget-2026","11":"tag-department-of-social-protection","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-fianna-fail","16":"tag-fine-gael","17":"tag-fionnan-sheahan","18":"tag-headlines","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-jack-chambers","22":"tag-latest-news","23":"tag-latestnews","24":"tag-main-news","25":"tag-mainnews","26":"tag-micheal-martin","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-paschal-donohoe","29":"tag-simon-harris","30":"tag-top-stories","31":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88448","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=88448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}