The formal announcement of Budget 2023 will be made in the Dáil this afternoon.
The total size of additional spending and tax measures in today’s Budget and package of one-off measures is expected to be € 10 billion.
Pensioners are to get cash lump sums of up to 1,100 euro under a 2 billion euro budget bonanza from the Department of Social Protection.
A 2.1 billion euro social welfare package will see a 12 euro a week rise in core social welfare payments, bringing the dole to 220 a week and state pension to 265.
The usual Christmas double payment bonus will accompany a special Halloween bonus this year given at the end of October at a total cost of 600m.
There will be a major expansion of the fuel allowance criteria, bringing an estimated 60 to 80 thousand extra homes into the mix for the payment.
Those on the fuel allowance will also get a once off cash lump sum of 400 euro this winter, while those on the living alone allowance will get 200 euro.
It means someone on the State Pension, Living Alone Allowance & Fuel Allowance would get cash payments of 1,100 euro by Christmas.
Carers, people with a disability, and those on the working family payment will all get a lump sum of 500 euro.
While there will be a double payment of child benefit rates in December.
There will also be a 20 euro rise in the Domiciliary Care Allowance to 320 euro, as part of the budget measures announced by Paschal Donohoe and Michael McGrath later today.
The Department of Health is also planning to make 430,000 more people eligible for free GP care next year.
It will mean more than half the population will have either a GP visit card or full medical card for the first time
