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The Benefits and Taxes 2023 wallchart is now available

This large-format quick-reference wallchart summarises rates of payment in 2023 for social welfare payments and taxes.

It includes social welfare payments for jobseekers, carers and older people along with rates for child and family payments such as Child Benefit, Working Family Payment and the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance. It gives income limits for the medical card and GP visit card and financial information on tax bands, tax reliefs and tax credits including the Rent Tax Credit.

It is also available in a booklet format.

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Parent’s leave has been extended to 7 weeks for parents of children under 2 (or 2 years from the child’s placement date in the case of adoptive parents).

The Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance will be paid automatically in the week of 11 July 2022 to families who have been notified that they will get the automatic payment. If you have not received a letter notifying you of this and you want to apply for the payment, you must apply on MyWelfare.

The Birth Information and Tracing Act has been passed by the Oireachtas. This gives adopted people, and others, the right to access their birth certificate.

A new voucher scheme for remote working hubs is now in place. You can get 3 vouchers in the first phase of the scheme, which runs until the end of August 2022.

Preliminary results of Census 2022 show Ireland’s population has passed the 5 million mark.

A new ex-gratia scheme for CE supervisors is now available.

We’ve updated the CAO offer and deadline dates for 2022/23.

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