What supports are on the cards for your farm family?
The rules on who is entitlement to benefit from these schemes is complex, but from a farmer’s perspective, it is useful to know that these schemes apply to self-employed persons and access is not just isolated to employees.
The options to help young families and the squeezed middle are set to be considered in the coming weeks ahead of the budgetary announcements scheduled for early October.
Under consideration are options to increase child benefit, once-off bonus payments such as the Christmas bonus and increasing the rates of payments or the duration of payments under some schemes such as Maternity Benefit, Paternity Benefit and Parent’s Benefit.
