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Social welfare hike pushes families over threshold for housing list - Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune

Summary by Connacht Tribune
RECENT social welfare increases have left some low-income families ‘traumatised’ after they were removed from the local authority housing list – because the increases inadvertently pushed them over the income threshold. The matter was raised by Fine Gael Cllr Laurie Harney at this month’s meeting of Galway County Council. He claimed that families waiting up to eight years were ‘thrown off’ the housing list as a direct result of the changes. Coun…
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Connacht Tribune broke the news in on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
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