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

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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