Budget 'disproportionally impacts welfare recipients', according to ESRI

Paschal Donohoe freezing welfare, tax bands and credits in this week's budget have affected people who are already the worst off and will push up child-poverty-at-risk rates, according to the ESRI.

Paschal Donohoe freezing welfare, tax bands and credits in this week's budget have affected people who are already the worst off and will push up child-poverty-at-risk rates, according to leading think tank, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).

In its first assessment examining the relative winners and losers of Budget 2020, researchers at the ESRI told a conference that the budget overall was “sensible and prudent” as the Government prepared the State’s defences for a potentially damaging crash-out Brexit.