Most social welfare recipients are set to get a €10 increase to their weekly payments from January but those on a new pay-related jobseeker’s benefit will not.

A spokesperson at the Department of Social Protection confirmed that Budget 2026 “does not provide for a change in the rates of jobseeker’s pay-related benefit”.

The payment is linked to a worker’s previous wage and was introduced to help avoid an income shock if they lose their job.

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The maximum weekly payment is worth up to 60pc of a worker’s former earnings, capped at €450 a week for 13 weeks. After that, the maximum rate falls.

In a letter to ministers Jack Chambers, Paschal Donohoe and Dara Calleary, general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Owen Reidy accuse

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