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Your top stories on Tuesday: Households to gain thousands in record giveaway; Israeli troops enter Lebanon

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Smoke rises from the site of Israeli artillery shelling on the southern villages of Adeisseh and Kfar Kila along the border with Israel this morning. The Israeli military says its troops were involved in 'intense fighting' as they started a ground incursion into southern Lebanon. Photograph: AFP/Getty

Budget 2025 Live: Households to gain thousands of euro in record giveaway

Tax changes are expected to make workers on average wages about €1,000 better off and a series of one-off payments in the coming months, including €250 in energy credits and two double payments of child benefit worth an extra €840 for families with three children, will be among the measures announced when the budget begins at 1pm.

A range of other spending commitments will amount to the biggest budget giveaway to households ever, with an election due by March of next year and expected by many to take place in November.

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