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| Starts | What | Now | Then |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2027 | Benefit Payment for 65 Year Olds: personal rate disability-allowance-payment-dates, one-parent-family-payment-dates | €254 | €264 |
| Bereaved Partner's (Contributory) Pension: 48 or more contributions, 66 or over guide-bereaved-partners-pension | €299.30 | €309.30 | |
| Bereaved Partner's (Contributory) Pension: 48 or more contributions, under 66 guide-bereaved-partners-pension | €259.50 | €269.50 | |
| Bereaved Partner's (Non-Contributory) Pension: personal rate | €254 | €264 | |
| Blind Pension: increase for a qualified adult | €168.60 | €175.20 | |
| Blind Pension: personal rate benefits-single-parents, guide-disability-allowance | €254 | €264 | |
| Carer's Allowance: half rate benefits-for-carers, carers-allowance-work-checker | €135 | €140 | |
| Carer's Allowance: rate 66 or over | €308 | €318 | |
| Carer's Allowance: rate under 66 benefits-for-carers, carers-allowance-work-checker | €270 | €280 | |
| Carer's Benefit: rate, one person cared for social-welfare-rates | €271 | €281 | |
| Disability Allowance: child 12 or over | €78 | €84 | |
| Disability Allowance: child under 12 | €58 | €64 | |
| Disability Allowance: increase for a qualified adult disability-allowance-calculator | €168.60 | €175.20 | |
| Disability Allowance: personal rate disability-allowance-calculator, disability-allowance-payment-dates | €254 | €264 | |
| Fuel Allowance: means limit, over 66, single fuel-allowance-checker | €534 | €640.80 | |
| Fuel Allowance: means limit, under 66, couple both under 66 | €698.70 | €715.40 | |
| Fuel Allowance: means limit, under 66, couple one over 66 | €767.70 | €786.70 | |
| Fuel Allowance: means limit, under 66, single benefits-for-carers | €499.30 | €509.30 | |
| Fuel Allowance: weekly rate | €1,064 | €23.15 | |
| Fuel Allowance: weekly rate fuel-allowance-checker, guide-fuel-allowance | €38 | €43 | |
| Guardian's Payment: weekly rate social-welfare-rates | €237 | €247 | |
| Illness Benefit: rate, band 1 guide-illness-benefit | €254 | €264 | |
| Invalidity Pension: increase for a qualified adult | €185.40 | €192.50 | |
| Invalidity Pension: personal rate social-welfare-rates | €259.50 | €269.50 | |
| Jobseeker's Allowance: personal rate | €254 | €264 | |
| Jobseeker's Transitional Payment: personal rate benefits-single-parents, guide-one-parent-family-payment | €254 | €264 | |
| Living Alone Increase: weekly rate social-welfare-rates | €22 | €25 | |
| Maternity, Paternity, Adoptive and Parent's Benefit: weekly rate guide-new-baby-money, guides | €299 | €309 | |
| One-Parent Family Payment: personal rate benefits-single-parents, disability-allowance-payment-dates | €254 | €264 | |
| State Pension (Contributory): qualified adult, pensioner 66, adult 66 or over | €268.40 | €277.40 | |
| State Pension (Contributory): qualified adult, pensioner 66, adult under 66 social-welfare-rates | €199.40 | €206.10 | |
| State Pension (Contributory): rate at 66 social-welfare-rates | €299.30 | €309.30 | |
| State Pension (Non-Contributory): child 12 or over | €78 | €84 | |
| State Pension (Non-Contributory): child under 12 | €58 | €64 | |
| State Pension (Non-Contributory): increase for a qualified adult | €190.20 | €196.80 | |
| State Pension (Non-Contributory): personal rate | €288 | €298 | |
| State Pension (Non-Contributory): personal rate, 80 or over | €298 | €308 | |
| Supplementary Welfare Allowance: increase for a qualified adult | €168.60 | €175.20 | |
| Supplementary Welfare Allowance: rate, 25 or over social-welfare-rates | €252 | €262 | |
| Tax credits: Home Carer Tax Credit guide-carer-tax-credits, ireland | €1,950 | €2,050 | |
| Tax credits: Rent Tax Credit, single rent-tax-credit-calculator | €1,000 | €1,150 | |
| 1 July 2027 | Blind Pension: earnings disregard | €165 | €175 |
| Carer's Allowance: income disregard, couple benefits-for-carers, carers-allowance-work-checker | €2,000 | €2,300 | |
| Carer's Allowance: income disregard, single benefits-for-carers, benefits-single-parents | €1,000 | €1,150 | |
| Disability Allowance: earnings disregard better-off-working, disability-allowance-calculator | €165 | €175 | |
| Increase for a Qualified Adult: none above | €310 | €340 | |
| Jobseeker's Transitional Payment: earnings disregard benefits-single-parents | €165 | €175 | |
| One-Parent Family Payment: earnings disregard benefits-single-parents, better-off-working | €165 | €175 |
Rate changes, newest first
Each row is one step in a dated rate series, with the figure before and after. Labels link to the page the figure is on where we have registered it.
| From | What | Was | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 July 2026 | Carer's Benefit: earnings limit guide-carers-benefit | €625 | €1,000 |
| Carer's Allowance: income disregard, single benefits-for-carers, benefits-single-parents | €450 | €1,000 | |
| Carer's Allowance: income disregard, couple benefits-for-carers, carers-allowance-work-checker | €900 | €2,000 | |
| 1 January 2026 | Supplementary Welfare Allowance: rate, under 25 with a dependant | €153.70 | €163.70 |
| Supplementary Welfare Allowance: rate, 25 or over social-welfare-rates | €242 | €252 | |
| State Pension (Non-Contributory): personal rate, 80 or over | €288 | €298 | |
| State Pension (Non-Contributory): personal rate | €278 | €288 | |
| State Pension (Non-Contributory): increase for a qualified adult | €183.60 | €190.20 | |
| State Pension (Non-Contributory): child under 12 | €50 | €58 | |
| State Pension (Non-Contributory): child 12 or over | €62 | €78 | |
| State Pension (Contributory): rate at 66 social-welfare-rates | €289.30 | €299.30 | |
| State Pension (Contributory): qualified adult, pensioner 66, adult under 66 social-welfare-rates | €192.70 | €199.40 | |
| State Pension (Contributory): qualified adult, pensioner 66, adult 66 or over | €259.40 | €268.40 | |
| One-Parent Family Payment: personal rate benefits-single-parents, disability-allowance-payment-dates | €244 | €254 | |
| Maternity, Paternity, Adoptive and Parent's Benefit: weekly rate guide-new-baby-money, guides | €289 | €299 | |
| Living Alone Increase: weekly rate social-welfare-rates | €22 | €22 | |
| Jobseeker's Transitional Payment: personal rate benefits-single-parents, guide-one-parent-family-payment | €244 | €254 | |
| Jobseeker's Allowance: personal rate, under 25 | €153.70 | €163.70 | |
| Jobseeker's Allowance: personal rate | €244 | €254 | |
| Invalidity Pension: personal rate social-welfare-rates | €249.50 | €259.50 | |
| Invalidity Pension: increase for a qualified adult | €178.30 | €185.40 | |
| Illness Benefit: rate, band 1 guide-illness-benefit | €244 | €254 | |
| Illness Benefit: increase for a qualified adult, band 1 | €162 | €168.60 | |
| Guardian's Payment: weekly rate social-welfare-rates | €227 | €237 | |
| Disability Allowance: personal rate disability-allowance-calculator, disability-allowance-payment-dates | €244 | €254 | |
| Disability Allowance: increase for a qualified adult disability-allowance-calculator | €162 | €168.60 | |
| Disability Allowance: child under 12 | €50 | €58 | |
| Disability Allowance: child 12 or over | €62 | €78 | |
| Carer's Benefit: rate, one person cared for social-welfare-rates | €261 | €271 | |
| Carer's Allowance: rate under 66 benefits-for-carers, carers-allowance-work-checker | €260 | €270 | |
| Carer's Allowance: rate 66 or over | €298 | €308 | |
| Blind Pension: personal rate benefits-single-parents, guide-disability-allowance | €244 | €254 | |
| Blind Pension: increase for a qualified adult | €162 | €168.60 | |
| Bereaved Partner's (Non-Contributory) Pension: personal rate | €244 | €254 | |
| Bereaved Partner's (Contributory) Pension: 48 or more contributions, under 66 guide-bereaved-partners-pension | €249.50 | €259.50 | |
| Bereaved Partner's (Contributory) Pension: 48 or more contributions, 80 or over | €299.30 | €309.30 | |
| Bereaved Partner's (Contributory) Pension: 48 or more contributions, 66 or over guide-bereaved-partners-pension | €289.30 | €299.30 |
Figures we corrected
A registered figure whose value we changed, with the reason from the change record. 1,402 figures have joined the register since 3 September 2026; each is re-read at its official source every night.
| Date | Figure | Was | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 October 2026 | Help to Buy maximum (from 7 October 2026, Budget 2027) Budget 2027 audit: CGT 31%, exit tax 35%, rates page January column, stale pre-Budget text | €30,000 | €35,000 |
| 6 October 2026 | Carbon tax on a 60-litre fill of petrol/diesel (Budget in Brief) Budget 2027: one master list of all 149 measures (budget_2027_measures.py) drives the page, the Kit email (build_budget_email.py) and the video; adds Expenditur | €1.28 / €1.48 | €1.28 |
| 6 October 2026 | Petrol/diesel excise restoration (Budget 2027) Budget 2027: one master list of all 149 measures (budget_2027_measures.py) drives the page, the Kit email (build_budget_email.py) and the video; adds Expenditur | 25c / 30c a litre | 25c a litre |
| 2 October 2026 | SEAI heat pump system grant — maximum bundle (from 29 Sept 2026) Safe Hours runs itself: council rent watcher, provider sign-up, sticky source checks | €12,500 | €14,500 |
| 17 September 2026 | SEAI heat pump system grant — maximum bundle (from 3 Feb 2026) A pensioner on storage heaters found a figure our guards could not | €6,500 | €12,500 |
Official pages where an amount moved
The raw signal from the nightly watch: an amount that appeared on, or disappeared from, a watched official page. Not every one is a rate change (examples and worked figures move too), which is why it is listed rather than acted on blind. Showing the latest 80 of 142; all are in the JSON.
Each payment's figures year by year, from the same series: rate history.
How this is made
Rate steps come from the dated series behind our calculators (each carries its start date, so a change applies on the day and not before). Corrections come from the public figure register, which ties every figure to an official URL. Page movements come from the nightly source check. Nothing here is typed by hand; the page is rebuilt each night. Reuse is welcome with a link back (CC BY 4.0). Last built 15 October 2026.
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