Every benefits calculator tells you what you can claim today. None of them tells you the thing you actually want to know when a Budget lands or a rule moves: am I better off, and by how much? This one does, because every rate here is stored with the date it took effect — so we can run your household through the same engine on two different dates and show you the difference.
Budget 2027 is on 6 October 2026.
The moment the rates are announced they go in here, and this page will show you what
the Budget did to your payment in euro a week. Until then it will not guess — a made-up
Budget figure is exactly the kind someone would act on.
Changes we can compare
We currently hold both sides of 1 change. Pick your situation and see what it did to you.
2 July 2026
- Carer's Allowance earnings disregard (single)€450 → €1,000
- Carer's Allowance earnings disregard (couple)€900 → €2,000
- Carer's Benefit earnings limit€625 → €1,000
Your situation
- 143 figures, each sourcedEvery money figure is tied to the official page it came from and re-checked automatically. See them all.
- 372 outcome testsThe calculations are checked against the departments’ own published worked examples on every change.
- Nothing leaves your deviceThis runs entirely in your browser. We never see what you enter and store nothing.
- Ireland, NI and EnglandOne tool across the border, which matters if you have worked on both sides of it.
Figures last verified against source on 2026-09-04. How we check them →
This is an estimate of the change, not a decision.
Only the Department can decide what you are paid. Every rate behind it is traced to its
official source and re-checked automatically — all 143 of them, last verified
2026-09-04. How we check our figures →