Taxpayers take hit over lone parent loophole
Parents originally had to pay around €45-€65 per week
A group of parents are heaping extra costs on the taxpayer due to a legal loophole. They were originally obliged to pay around €45-€65 per week towards the state’s costs of providing lone parent allowance to their former partner until their child reached the age of 14.
But when changes were made to the allowance by Tánaiste Joan Burton, her department did not take account of this group.
They now only have to ...