Varadkar considering top-up child benefit payment on means-tested basis
Proposal would support the poorest 100,000 children in the state at a cost of €700 million
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has promised to examine the introduction of a child benefit top up payment for poorer families.
The current child benefit payment of €140 per month is given without a means test to 1.2 million children under 18.
However, the ESRI think tank has recommended the introduction of a top-up child benefit payment - which would be means tested and targeted at the poorest 100,000 children in the state. It would cost an ...
