Fine Gael’s plans to make work pay more than welfare Fine Gael TD for Dublin Fingal, Alan Farrell, today (Tuesday) said the party’s plans to support working families by making work pay include a new Working Family Payment to ensure that every parent working 15 hours or more per week takes home at least €11.75 per hour. “Fine Gael has…
Fine Gael TD for Dublin North Alan Farrell has welcomed the measure announced in the budget by Minister Michael Noonan that the Universal Social Charge (USC) is to be abolished for people who earn less than €10,000. Up to now the USC applied to people who earned €4,000 or more. “This will positively affect 330,000 people including the low paid,…
