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Social welfare rates by year

One page per payment: every figure in its dated series, year by year, with the Budget changes still to start. Generated from the series the calculators run on, so it cannot drift from them.

PaymentFiguresYears
Benefit Payment for 65 Year Olds22026 to 2027
Bereaved Partner's (Contributory) Pension72025 to 2027
Bereaved Partner's (Non-Contributory) Pension12025 to 2027
Blind Pension42025 to 2027
Carer's Allowance72025 to 2027
Carer's Benefit42025 to 2027
Carer's Support Grant22026 to 2026
Disability Allowance62023 to 2027
Farm Assist32017 to 2017
Fuel Allowance92026 to 2027
GP visit card82026 to 2026
Guardian's Payment12025 to 2027
Household Benefits Package12026 to 2026
Illness Benefit102025 to 2027
Increase for a Qualified Adult22026 to 2027
Invalidity Pension22025 to 2027
Jobseeker's Allowance52025 to 2027
Jobseeker's Pay-Related Benefit82026 to 2026
Jobseeker's Transitional Payment42025 to 2027
Living Alone Increase12025 to 2027
Maternity, Paternity, Adoptive and Parent's Benefit52024 to 2027
Medical card162026 to 2026
One-Parent Family Payment32025 to 2027
Partial Capacity Benefit32026 to 2026
Rent Supplement52026 to 2026
State Pension (Contributory)92025 to 2027
State Pension (Non-Contributory)82025 to 2027
Supplementary Welfare Allowance42025 to 2027
Tax credits22024 to 2027

Today's rates in one table: social welfare rates. What changed and when: what changed at the official source.