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Social Welfare Schemes and Services

From Department of Social Protection

Published on 8 March 2020

Last updated on 8 September 2021

1. Children and Families

2. COVID-19 Coronavirus Related Payments

3. Jobseekers

4. Health

5. Education

6. Pensions

7. Homes

8. PSC and PPSN

9. Online Services

10. Other Services

11. Social Welfare Forms

12. Operational Guidelines

13. Information on Taxable Social Welfare Payments/Schemes

14. Related Websites

Children and Families

Your Guide to our Schemes and Services: Families and Children. Available in a number of languages.

Activation and Family Support Programme (AFSP)

Adoptive Benefit

After School Childcare Scheme

Apply for birth, death, marriage, adoption, civil partnership and stillbirth certificates

Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance

Back to Work Family Dividend

Basic Supplementary Welfare Allowance

Deserted Wife's Allowance

Deserted Wife's Benefit

Get married in Ireland

Guardian's Payment

Increase for a Qualified Adult

Increase for a Qualified Child

Maternity Benefit

One-Parent Family Payment

Parent's Benefit

Paternity Benefit

Register a birth in Ireland

Register a death in Ireland

Registering a stillbirth

School Meals Scheme

Unpaid Parental Leave

Widowed or Surviving Civil Partner Grant

Working Family Payment (WFP)

COVID-19 Coronavirus Related Payments

COVID-19 Employer Refund Scheme

Enterprise Support Grant for businesses impacted by COVID-19

Enhanced Illness Benefit for COVID-19

COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

COVID-19 Part-Time Job Incentive for the Self-Employed

Short Time Work Support

COVID-19 Social Welfare Schemes available to a self-employed person

Jobseekers

Your Guide to our Schemes and Services: Jobseekers Supports

Your Guide to our Schemes and Services: Employer Services and Supports

Employment and Training

Access the EmployAbility Service

Back to Work Enterprise Allowance

Benefit of Work Estimator

Benefit Payment for 65 Year Olds

Close My Jobseeker's Claim

Community Employment Programme

COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Employee Retention Grant

Enterprise Support Grant

Find your local Intreo Centre

Insolvency Payments Scheme

Intreo Employment and Income Supports

Job Interview Interpreter Grant

Jobseeker's Allowance

Jobseeker's Benefit

Jobseeker's Benefit for the Self-Employed

Jobseeker's Transitional Payment

Jobsplus Online Application for Employees

JobsPlus Online Application for Employers

Make a Holiday Request (for Jobseekers)

Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme

COVID-19 Part -Time Job Incentive for the Self-Employed

Professional Artists on Jobseeker’s Allowance

Reasonable Accommodation Fund

Redundancy Calculator

Redundancy Payments

Rural Social Scheme

Self-Employed Benefits

Short Term Enterprise Allowance (STEA)

Special Funeral Grant (under the Occupational Injuries Benefit scheme)

Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) Supplements

The Ability Programme

Training Support Grant

Tús (community work placement initiative)

Voluntary Work Option

Wage Subsidy Scheme

Work Placement Experience Programme

Work Placement Experience Programme - Employers

Workplace Equipment Adaptation Grant

Health

Your Guide to our Schemes and Services: Illness, Disability and Caring. Available in a number of languages.

Carer's Allowance

Carer's Benefit

Carer's Support Grant

Constant Attendance Allowance

Death Benefit Scheme (under the Occupational Injuries Scheme)

Dietary Supplement

Disability Allowance

Disability Awareness Support Scheme

Domiciliary Care Allowance

Health and Safety Benefit

Homemaker’s Scheme

Illness Benefit

Invalidity Pension

Medical Care Scheme

PRSI Credited Contributions for Public Servants who retire on ill health grounds

Partial Capacity Benefit

Personal Reader Grant

Reasonable Accommodation Fund

Recently Bereaved

Recovery of Benefits and Assistance (RBA) Scheme

Special Funeral Grant (under the Occupational Injuries Benefit scheme)

Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) Supplements

The Ability Programme

Treatment Benefit Scheme

Urgent Needs Payments (SWA)

Voluntary Work Option

Wage Subsidy Scheme

Workplace Equipment Adaptation Grant

Education

Back to Education Allowance

Part-Time Education Option

School Meals Scheme

Pensions

Your Guide to our Schemes and Services: Retired and Older People. Available in a number of languages.

Benefit Payment for 65 Year Olds

Claiming an EU Pension

Disablement Benefit

Free Travel Card: How to Use It

Free Travel Scheme

Incapacity Supplement

Invalidity Pension

Pension Calculator

State Pension (Contributory)

State Pension (Non-contributory)

Transfer of Private Pensions to Ireland for returning Irish Emigrants

Widow’s, Widower’s or Surviving Civil Partner’s (Contributory) Pension

Widow’s, Widower’s or Surviving Civil Partner’s (Non-contributory) Pension

Homes

Daily Expenses Allowance

Deduction of Local Property Tax (LPT)

Household Benefits Package

Humanitarian Assistance Scheme

Rent Supplement

Telephone Support Allowance

Increase for Living on a Specified Island

Living Alone Increase

PSC and PPSN

Get a Personal Public Service (PPS) Number

Get a Public Service Card

PSC/SAFE Registration Centres

SAFE Registration and the Public Services Card (PSC)

Online Services

Application Form Request

Customer Feedback Form

MyWelfare.ie - Services available to Jobseekers

Report Suspected Social Welfare Fraud

Request a Statement

Sign up for MyGovID

Submit Redundancy and Insolvency Claims on Welfare Partners

Other Services

Apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate

Appoint someone to act on your behalf

Change/amend your bank details

Claiming Benefits Abroad

Exceptional Needs Payments (SWA)

Find a Citizens Information Centre

Find your local Intreo Centre

Freedom of Information requests for the department

Magdalen Commission Scheme

Make a Subject Access Request

Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults

Translation, Interpretive and Sign Language Services

Volunteer Development Worker Scheme

Social Welfare Forms

Social Welfare Forms

Application Form Request

Operational Guidelines

Operational Guidelines

Information on Taxable Social Welfare Payments/Schemes

Taxable Social Welfare Payments/Schemes

Tax Exempt Social Welfare Payments/Schemes

Related Websites

Social Welfare Related Sites

Data Protection in the Department of Social Protection

Department of Social Protection’s Privacy Statement (updated 2020)

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