More SW cuts- Smokeless Fuel & Household Benefits

snubbleste

Smokeless Fuel allowance worth €3.90 per week to be abolished this year, only the Fuel allowance payment will be available.

Household benefits package is reduced, telephone, electricity and gas allowance units being cut to 2007 levels.

http://www.welfare.ie/EN/Press/PressReleases/2011/Pages/pr120711.aspx

chasm

After reading an article on the examiner about this, and have just read your link but i'm still not totally clear on the telephone allowance cut.

"The Telephone Allowance will be set at €22.22 per month (from €25.91 per month) from September 2011. However, the Department of Social Protection has negotiated with Eircom, the main supplier, to ensure that all Eircom customers will get a value of €26.86 towards their telephone bill."

Commenting on this change Minister Burton said: “I welcome this new ‘social benefits’ deal with Eircom to obtain maximum value for the State and for our customers. We’ll no longer pay a monthly rental for handsets, but customers will be able to keep their set at no charge. It just makes more sense.” The amounts paid in respect of customers of other companies or to customers who receive the allowance on a cash basis will also be reduced to €22.22 per month."

If phone lines are rented from eircom by other providers then surely eircom will have to pass that extra few euro onto other providers? If not it seems that handset rental IS still being paid even though they claim it is not.

The examiner states:
"The telephone allowance will be reduced from €25.91 per month to €22.22, a reduction of €3.69, or €44.28 over the course of a year, with an exemption for Eircom customers."
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/elderly-carers-jobless-to-be-hit-by-cuts-160935.html

I cannot say i am surprised by these cuts as they were mentioned before, the electricity one would be most noticeable for me i think.

paddy147

Yep good auld FG.
Keep on taxing,stopping payments and hitting the poor and make more and more people poor,yet these feckers run up a dail bar bill of 70,000 euro.

Yep,its a fair country Enda and you are a man of the people and a man of your word,arent you???:rolleyes::mad::mad:

mp22

Closed.The politics forum might be more suitable.