Social welfare payments up by 3 per cent from mid-June.
Weekly child dependant allowances to be paid for the first 13 weeks of employment to long-term unemployed people who get a job.
More people to be allowed to keep a portion of their weekly welfare payment for up to two years after getting a job or becoming self-employed.
Some pensioners who don't have social welfare pensions to be eligible for free electricity, telephone rental and television licences.
Monthly Child Benefit to rise by £2 per child from
September.
People on the Carers Allowance to get an extra £5 a week.
Moves to be considered to help old people who are outside the tax net to buy security alarms.
A one-parent family payment to replace the lone parent's allowance and deserted wife's benefit (for new claimants) from next January.
