Fiscal claim
Protect wages and welfare from inflation
Headline figure
Per-year impact
€500m
Welfare or transfer payment
Total over horizon
€500m
2025 onwards
Confidence
Stated in source
Full welfare indexation to inflation ~€500m/yr.
Attribution & links
- Origin
- Manifesto
- Owner
- The Labour Party
- Policy area
- Social Protection
- Underwrites commitment
- Protect wages and welfare from inflation
- First stated
- 2024-11-17
- Last reviewed
- 2026-05-23
Verification
Cross-checked against the source document. Quote captured verbatim where the figure is directly stated; gaps and mismatches are noted honestly.
Verified against Labour Party GE2024 Manifesto - Building Better Together, p.32: "PROTECT INCOMES FROM INFLATION - Labour has a plan to ensure your wages go further."
Evidence & sources
Every euro figure above ultimately traces back to the source document below.
Source
- Labour Party GE2024 ManifestoLabour Party·Retrieved 2026-05-23high
- Labour Party GE2024 Manifesto - Building Better Together, p.32 - verbatim figureThe Labour Party·Retrieved 2026-05-23high
See this claim in coalition context on the fiscal model.