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Older and vulnerable people who receive the living allowance will only receive an increase of € 5 per week in this year’s budget.
The weekly payment is expected to rise from € 14 to € 19 for the 200,000 people who claim it, The Irish Independent reported.
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The increase will not boost the pension, but 160,000 people who receive it are OAPS, widows and widowers, the other 40,000 have disabilities.
The fuel allocation is also expected to increase by € 3.50 per week.
Labor TD Sean Sherlock said: “There will be an increase in the carbon tax again in the budget and rightly the government is taking into account the suggestion of the Labor Party to increase the level of fuel allocation.
“While we had asked for it to be rounded by € 5.50 to € 40 per week, reports today indicate that it would be increased by € 3.50.
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“There is a pressing need with rising energy costs and the elderly and vulnerable spending more time at home.”
He continued: “One of the sequences of the Covid-19 course is that people are spending more time at home and this is leading to much higher heating costs and electricity bills. The government has to recognize that in the budget.
“Earlier this year, an additional four weeks of fuel allocation was paid as part of the 2019/2020 fuel allocation season, so it is essential that the level of support is also restored.
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On Friday, it became known that Ireland will spend more money this year than any other in the history of the state that plunged the nation 21 billion euros into the red due to the current Covid-19 crisis.
Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe announced yesterday that Ireland’s finances were drastically depleted after the state spent € 16 billion on extraordinary measures.
The total bill to run the country in 2020 is estimated to cost 86 billion euros, an expense that skyrocketed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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