Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Section 9 provides for increases in the graduated rate of jobseeker's benefit. The purpose of the section is to give effect to the increase in the graduated rates of jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker's benefit, self-employed, arising from budget 2024 measures.

The provision will come into operation on 28 December 2023. It provides for an increase in the weekly rates of jobseeker's benefit and in the circumstances where the person is in receipt of a graduated rate and is subject to a penalty for failure to comply with their obligations in relation to seeking employment or training. It will be €84.30 in the case of a person referred to in all these subsections. Then it goes to €120.20 and then to €147.20. That is what it is allowing as regards the increase in personal weekly rates.