Mothers-to-be can look forward to bumper maternity leave payments of potentially €500 a week under plans being considered by Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys.
The Irish Mirror has learned that maternity pay is one of the benefit payments that the minister is looking at linking in line with what you actually have paid into the PRSI pot.
This will be part of a move towards a new social welfare system which is moving towards what a source last night called “exactly what it says on the tin”-style payments.
