First of Budget 2024’s cost-of-living lump sum welfare payments now being received

Paschal Donohoe outlines Budget 2024 social welfare supports

Philip Ryan

Bonus welfare payments are now being paid to pensioners, carers and people with disabilities from yesterday.

The first of the lump-sum payments will be paid to 45,000 families, with 97,000 children, in receipt of the Working Family Payment, who will receive an extra €400 on Thursday, November 23.