Social Welfare Ireland News Budget 2025. The maximum weekly rate of maternity benefit, adoptive benefit, paternity benefit and parent’s benefit will increase by €15 (january 2025). Budget 2025 will deliver 10 lump sum social welfare payments worth a whopping €1.5bn.

A €25 increase is required to benchmark core social welfare rates to 27.5 per cent of average earnings and to address the impact of continued inflation on low income households. There will be proportionate increases for qualified adults and people getting a reduced rate