Nursing home residents are set to be allowed to keep all income from renting their family home under new changes to the Fair Deal Scheme.

The Irish Independent reports it's one of the measures from the government to offset the impact of lifting the eviction ban.

Under the current scheme, nursing home residents can keep 60 per cent of the rental income from leasing their former home.

But the government is now planning to allow them to keep all of that income, although it will be subject to tax.