‘This cut will push us over the edge’
The woman, whose identity is known to the Irish Examiner, writes how as a mother of four, she is in “extreme distress” at the proposed changes to the means testing of the payment.
The cuts, included in the Social Welfare Bill, will mean the carer’s allowance will be counted as means when calculating the rate of FIS, which is a top-up payment made to lower income families.
