{"id":1911,"date":"2022-09-28T14:55:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/qualified-child-increase-of-e2-an-insult-to-vulnerable-families\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T14:55:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:55:27","slug":"qualified-child-increase-of-e2-an-insult-to-vulnerable-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/qualified-child-increase-of-e2-an-insult-to-vulnerable-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualified Child Increase of \u20ac2 an insult to vulnerable families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Government is clearly not serious about ending child poverty\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Qualified Child Increase of \u20ac2 announced in yesterday\u2019s budget has been described as shamefully inadequate by Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Gannon, who is the party\u2019s spokesperson on Social Protection, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis miserly increase is an insult to vulnerable families and proves that this Government is not serious about ending the scandal of child poverty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u20ac2 increase per child must be seen in the context of an \u20ac11 billion giveaway budget, which saw generous tax concessions for the better-off and universal energy supports for all income brackets, including higher earners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Children\u2019s Rights Alliance had urged the Government to invest in the Qualified Child Increase, which it said would have been a crucial intervention. They point out that the \u20ac2 increase falls short of what is required and will not be enough to support children or families on the brink of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Social Democrats\u2019 alternative budget had proposed an additional \u20ac7 for children under 12 and an extra \u20ac12 for teenagers, bringing the weekly amounts to \u20ac47 and \u20ac60 per week respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearch from the ESRI shows that the Working Family Payment and Qualified Child Increase contribute most to poverty reduction. It is unfortunate the Government did not take this into account in Budget 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>September 28, 2022<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government is clearly not serious about ending child poverty\u00a0 The Qualified Child Increase of \u20ac2 announced in yesterday\u2019s budget has been described as shamefully inadequate by Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon. Deputy Gannon, who is the party\u2019s spokesperson on Social Protection, said: \u201cThis miserly increase is an insult to vulnerable families and proves that this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,7,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gary-gannon","category-press-release","category-social-welfare"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Qualified Child Increase of \u20ac2 an insult to vulnerable families - Social Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/qualified-child-increase-of-e2-an-insult-to-vulnerable-families\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Qualified Child Increase of \u20ac2 an insult to vulnerable families - Social Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Government is clearly not serious about ending child poverty\u00a0 The Qualified Child Increase of \u20ac2 announced in yesterday\u2019s budget has been described as shamefully inadequate by Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon. 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