€100m rise in Working Family Payment needed to lift 26,000 people 'out of poverty'

Junior social protection minister Joe O'Brien said that consistent poverty has fallen to 4% but 'there is still work to be done'. Picture: Maxwells

An increase of €100m in the Working Family Payment (WFP) is needed to lift 26,000 people, 12,000 of them children, out of poverty.

That is the finding of a new ESRI report commissioned by junior social protection minister Joe O'Brien, which will be published on Monday.