The Telephone Allowance is to be brought back from October 2018, Independent.ie has learned.

A decision was taken to prioritise the allowance which was abolished in 2014 over the restoration of the €850 bereavement grant.

Independent Alliance ministers had sought both payments to be included in today’s budget but were told by Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe that he can only afford one.

In particular OPW Minister Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran had … Continue reading Telephone Allowance gets priority over Bereavement Grant in Budget 2018