Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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368. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing all headline social protection payments to €300 per week, excluding disability-related payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23795/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The estimated full year cost of increasing all weekly social welfare payments to €300 per week is €2,938.1m. This includes a proportionate increase for Qualified Adults and those on reduced rates of payment.

These costings are subject to change in the context of emerging trends and associated revision of the estimated numbers of recipients.

Disability Allowance, Illness Benefit, Invalidity Pension, Partial Capacity, Injury Benefit, Incapacity Supplement, Disablement Pension and Blind Person’s Pension are excluded from the above costings.

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing disability, blind pensions and invalidity pensions to €350 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23796/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The full year cost of increasing Invalidity Pension, Disability Allowance and Blind Pension to €350 is set out in the table.

It should also be noted that these costings include proportionate increases for qualified adults where relevant.