Payments are to start flowing to pensioners this week who were denied a bigger penison due to budgetary changes brought in 2012
It effected many home makers who took time out to rear families in the 1970s and 80s
The government was forced to recognise this last year and make budgetary allowances for it
New Ross Fianna Fail Councillor Michael Sheehan was one of the prime motivators of the change
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