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Budget - Telephone support allowance??

  • 10-10-2017 1:29pm
    #1
    mylittlepony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭


    I thought the telephone allowance was scrapped back in 2014.
    It say in the budget teletext news did not watch it on tv.
    'There will be a €2.50 increase in the Telephone Support allowance for those receiving the Living Alone and Fuel Allowance.'
    Is this true or incorrect.


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  • #2
    sunbeam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭sunbeam


    I haven't seen the full details yet but it looks like it is going to be a 2.50 weekly payment for elderly/disabled who are living alone.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    sunbeam wrote: »
    I haven't seen the full details yet but it looks like it is going to be a 2.50 weekly payment for elderly/disabled who are living alone.

    You only get €2.50 extra if you live alone?


  • #4
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Deleted User wrote: »
    You only get €2.50 extra if you live alone?

    As a phone allowance. Separate to the other increases


  • #5
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,120 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    mylittlepony wrote: »
    I thought the telephone allowance was scrapped back in 2014.
    It say in the budget teletext news did not watch it on tv.
    'There will be a €2.50 increase in the Telephone Support allowance for those receiving the Living Alone and Fuel Allowance.'
    Is this true or incorrect.

    You are right it was scrapped.
    The announcement today is phase 1 of a restoration.
    It doesn't come in until next October.
    Expect more of the same in next years budget.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    As a phone allowance. Separate to the other increases

    So do you have to apply for phone allowance so confused?

    I’m on disability getting fuel allowance while my carer is on carers getting household benefit I thought maybe the telephone allowance wouldn’t be attached to household benefit


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    elperello wrote: »
    next October.

    all these increases are so far away


  • #8
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    If you receive Fuel Allowance you will receive telephone allowance.


  • #9
    pl4ichjgy17zwd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭pl4ichjgy17zwd


    fussyonion wrote: »
    If you receive Fuel Allowance you will receive telephone allowance.

    Do you not have to be receiving both the Living Alone Allowance and the Fuel Allowance? Or is it either/or?


  • #10
    sunbeam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭sunbeam


    On http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Budget-2018.aspx it is described as 'A New Telephone Support Allowance for 124,000 people living alone'.

    Further down the page it states 'A new weekly Telephone Support Allowance of €2.50 will be paid from June 2018, to people who are receiving the Living Alone Allowance, subject to the same eligibility conditions as the Fuel Allowance payment.'


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