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A monthly payment of €400 available to you if you are providing accommodation to a person or people who arrived in Ireland under the EU Temporary Protection Directive since March 2022
Funds proposals to cover the cost of training supports and education courses for people on social welfare.
Payment to an employed or self-employed person who adopts a child.
A scheme which can provide childcare for a reduced rate to people who are returning to work or on certain benefits.
How to nominate someone to pick up your welfare payments on your behalf
A payment to allow people who are getting certain payments to take part in second or third-level education courses.
What is the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance
This scheme is designed to encourage the long-term unemployed to take up self-employment opportunities by allowing them to retain a reducing portion of their social welfare payment
A weekly payment for every child in your family, to help families to move from social welfare into work.
A weekly payment to people who do not have enough income to meet their needs and those of their families.
The estimate will include income from your employment and any social welfare payments you may still be entitled to.
A tool which shows how income from employment may affect your disability or illness payment.
A means-tested payment paid to blind and visually impaired people who are habitually resident in Ireland.
A means-tested payment to people who are caring full-time for a person who has a disability or illness.
Payment made to people who leave work to care for a person or people who need full-time care and attention
An annual payment made to carers. The scheme name was changed from the Respite Care Grant in 2016 to better reflect how the Grant is used.
A monthly payment to support parents.
Claiming an EU Pension if you are living in the EU or abroad
If you are applying for insurance-based payments, any contributions made in other EU member states/EEA countries should be taken into account.
A once-off ex-gratia payment for eligible CE supervisors and CE assistant supervisors.
A programme designed to help people who are long-term unemployed (or otherwise disadvantaged) to get back to work.
The Constant Attendance Allowance increases Disablement Benefit
This payment has been replaced with the COVID-19 Wage Subsidy.
A social welfare payment to support employees and self-employed people who are unemployed during the COVID-19 pandemic
Available to self-employed people who are in receipt of COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment or a Jobseeker’s payment in the week immediately prior to their application.
Information about the COVID-19 Related Lay-Off Payment Scheme
Deaf Irish Sign Language users can get information about COVID-19 (Coronavirus) using Irish Remote Interpreting Service (IRIS)
How to make a compliment or complaint to the department
From 30 June 2018, applicants for International Protection in Ireland have entitlements under the EU (recast) Reception Conditions Directive.
Payments to surviving relatives of a person who may die because of an accident at work or from a disease that is related to their work.
The deduction at source facility is available to customers who wish to pay their Local Property Tax over an extended period from their social protection payment.
A means-tested payment made to women under 66 years without dependent children, who were deserted by their husband.
A social welfare payment made to women who were deserted by their husbands.
Diet Supplement is a payment to help with the cost of a special diet prescribed by your doctor or hospital consultant (it is no longer paid to new customers).
A weekly allowance paid to people with a disability.
A scheme that provides funding for private sector employers for Disability Awareness Training for staff who work with a colleague who has a disability.
Payment if you lose certain physical or mental abilities as a result of something that happens to you because of your work.
A monthly payment for a child with a severe disability.
Information about the Department of Social Protection's Privacy Statement and Data Protection.
Provides an employment support service for people with disabilities, injuries and illnesses.
A scheme to help private sector employers support sick or injured employees.
What is Enhanced Illness Benefit for COVID-19
This grant allows the department to provide financial support for new enterprises, in addition to income support under BTWEA and STEA, to jobseekers that are approved for those schemes
A grant to support business owners impacted by COVID-19
A single payment to help meet essential, once-off, exceptional expenditure.
A means-tested payment for low-income farmers.
Facility to help you find your local Intreo centre, social welfare and branch offices by county.
A means-tested payment for low-income fishermen or women.
A guide to using the Free Travel Card.
Allows you to travel free of charge on all public transport owned by the State.
The Department of Social Protection's guide to accessing your FOI records. How to make an application, and who to send it to. This page lists the contact details of the department's FOI Officers and explains who to write to for each scheme area.
A means-tested payment to help with the cost of heating your home during the winter.
Email address for making a general enquiry to the Department of Social Protection
A payment available to people taking care of an orphan.
A weekly payment to pregnant or breastfeeding women who work night duty or in hazardous environments.
The HomeCaring Periods Scheme makes it easier for you as a home carer to qualify for a higher rate of State Pension (Contributory) when you reach pension age.
This scheme makes it easier for you as a homemaker to qualify for a higher rate of State Pension (Contributory).
The Household Benefits Package allows you to apply for help with the costs of running your household.
How to get a Personal Public Service (PPS) Number
How to make an appointment and renew a Public Services Card(PSC)
form for requesting your payment to be paid to your bank account
Emergency financial assistance to households who are not able to meet costs for essential needs immediately following flooding or severe weather events.
What is Illness Benefit
An extra payment for people getting Disablement Benefit.
An increase in social welfare payment for people with a qualified adult who meet certain conditions.
An increase in social welfare payment for people with children who meet certain conditions.
An increase in social welfare payment for people living on certain islands off the coast of Ireland.
A weekly payment made to you if you are unfit for work.
A scheme to protect pay-related entitlements of employees whose employer has become legally insolvent.
Intreo is a single point of contact for all employment and income supports.
A weekly payment to people who cannot work because of a long-term illness or disability and are covered by social insurance (PRSI).
Allows deaf or hearing impaired people to attend job interviews with a sign language interpreter.
A means tested payment for people who become unemployed.
Payment for people who become fully or partly unemployed.
A payment for people between 18 and 66 who become fully or partly unemployed and have paid enough pay-related social insurance (PRSI) contributions.
Supports lone parents moving into the workforce while they have young children.
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An employer incentive which encourages and rewards employers who employ jobseekers on the Live Register.
An extra payment for people on social welfare payments who are living alone.
The Magdalen Commission Scheme was set up under the recommendations of The Magdalen Commission Report of Mr Justice John Quirke 2013. The report recommended the immediate implementation of an ex gratia scheme comprising a combination of a lump sum and weekly cash payments.
Facility for jobseekers, who are in receipt of a social welfare payment, to notify department of their intention to take a holiday.
How to make a subject access request.
A payment for employed and self-employed people who are on maternity leave from work and covered by social insurance (PRSI).
Allows you to get a refund of the costs of medical care and attention that are not paid by the HSE or covered by the Treatment Benefit Scheme.
What is MyWelfare.ie
A payment to men and women under 66 who are bringing up children who are not cohabiting
Parent’s Benefit provides seven weeks payment to each parent of a child aged under two years, or in the two years following an adoption.
A scheme that allows certain long-term unemployed people to take up part-time work and get a special weekly allowance instead of their jobseeker’s payment.
A payment if you can only work in a limited way based on a medical assessment.
Payment to employed and self-employed people who are new parents.
A grant that allows blind or visually impaired people to employ a Personal Reader.
Allows professional artists who get Jobseeker’s Allowance to be exempt from returning to employment for their first year out of work.
Refunds of PRSI may be made to employers and employees where contributions have been paid in error.
If you require a more accessible workplace or adapted equipment to do your job, you or your employer may be able to get a grant towards the costs of adapting premises or equipment.
If an Irish citizen dies abroad and they were a resident in Ireland within 5 years of their death, the death can be recorded in the Record of Deaths Abroad.
Recovery of Certain Benefits and Assistance Scheme enables the department to recover the value of certain illness-related social welfare payments from compensation awards made to persons as a consequence of personal injuries claims. The benefits are recovered from the compensator and not from the injured person.
Calculator to estimate potential redundancy entitlements.
An overview of redundancy payments.
A means-tested payment for certain people living in private rented accommodation who cannot provide for the cost of their accommodation from their own resources.
A social housing support which caters for the accommodation needs of certain people who are getting long-term rent supplement
Facility that allows users to report suspected social welfare fraud to the Department of Social Protection.
Facility that allows users request a statement of Social Welfare payments with MyWelfare.
If you need to apply for a social welfare payment, you can do this online or by downloading or requesting an application form
Provides a supplementary income for low-income farmers and fishermen or women who are unable to earn an adequate living.
Provides funding towards provision of food services for disadvantaged school children
A guide to benefits available to the self-employed in Ireland.
Information on the services available to jobseekers on MyWelfare.ie.
This allowance supports people who have lost their job and want to start their own business
Short-Time Work Support is a form of Jobseeker’s Benefit and an income support payment if you have been temporarily placed on a shorter working week.
How to create and verify your MyGovID account
A grant paid to a person who covers the funeral expenses for a deceased person who meets certain conditions.
A social insurance benefit which you may qualify for when you reach a certain age.
A payment paid to those aged 66 or over who don't have the necessary social insurance (PRSI) contributions but satisfy a means test.
A Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) supplement may be paid to assist you to meet ongoing additional expenses which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income.
A weekly payment for people who live alone and are already in receipt of certain other social welfare payments
The Temporary COVID-19 Wage Subsidy is a scheme which allow employers to pay their employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Providing funding to projects which help young people with disabilities find employment.
A scheme designed to fund quick access to short-term training or related interventions for individual jobseekers.
How to transfer a returning emigrant may transfer pension funds to Ireland.
Provides dental, optical and aural services to insured workers, the self-employed and retired people
A community work placement scheme providing short-term working opportunities for unemployed people.
The Parental Leave Act, 1998, as amended, allows fathers and mothers to take unpaid leave to look after young children. You may take parental leave either as a single block of 18 weeks or, with your employer’s agreement, as smaller blocks, broken up over a period of time.
A once-off payment made to persons who would not normally qualify for Supplementary Welfare Allowance but who have an urgent need.
The Voluntary Work Option allows jobseekers to work in the voluntary sector
Volunteer Development Workers who go abroad to work in developing countries are exempt from paying Social Insurance contributions while abroad.
A scheme that provides financial incentives to private sector employers to employ people with a disability.
Widowed: A one-off payment to widows, widowers or surviving civil partners with dependent children.
A weekly payment to the husband, wife or civil partner of a deceased person.
A means-tested payment payable to a widow, widower or surviving partner.
A 6-month, 30 hour per week voluntary work experience programme
The Work Placement Experience Programme allows employers to host a jobseeker in a work experience placement and to help the jobseeker to build new skills and gain valuable work experience
A weekly, tax-free payment available to employees with children.
An overview of the Workplace Equipment Adaptation Grant.
A work experience placement programme which is targeted at young jobseekers aged 18-24 who are long-term unemployed or face barriers to employment.
A work experience placement programme which is targeted at young jobseekers aged 18-24 who are long-term unemployed or face barriers to employment.
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