Around 1.3m people to receive €200 cost-of-living payment this week

The payments, announced last February, will be made to pensioners, carers, people with disabilities, and other groups.

Almost 50,000 households in receipt of the working family payment will receive their €200 top-up on Thursday. File Picture.

Around 1.3m people, including pensioners and lone parents, are set to receive cost-of-living supports from this week.

Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys is set to inform Cabinet of a number of €200 payments that will be given to welfare recipients to help households with rising costs.