From Department of Social Protection
Published on 8 March 2020
Last updated on 29 June 2022
Your Guide to our Schemes and Services: Families and Children. Available in a number of languages.
Activation and Family Support Programme
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
Child Benefit
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
Record of Death Abroad
Register a birth in Ireland
Register a death in Ireland
Register a stillbirth
School Meals Scheme
Unpaid Parental Leave
Widowed or Surviving Civil Partner Grant
Working Family Payment
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 Related Lay-Off Payment Scheme
Short-Time Work Support
Your Guide to our Schemes and Services: Jobseekers Supports
Your Guide to our Schemes and Services: Employer Services and Supports
Intreo - the public employment service
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
Community Employment Ex-Gratia Payment for Supervisors and Assistant Supervisors
Employee Retention Grant
Enterprise Support Grant
Farm Assist
Find your local Intreo Centre
Fish Assist
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
JobsIreland
JobsPlus
JobsPlus Online Application for Employers and Employees
Make a Holiday Request (for Jobseekers)
Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme
Professional Artists on Jobseeker’s Allowance
Reasonable Accommodation Fund
Redundancy Calculator
Redundancy Payments Scheme
Rural Social Scheme
Self-Employed Benefits
Short Term Enterprise Allowance
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
Your Guide to our Schemes and Services: Illness, Disability and Caring.
Additional Needs Payment
Blind Pension
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
HomeCaring
Homemaker’s Scheme
Illness Benefit
Injury Benefit
Invalidity Pension
Medical Care Scheme
PRSI Credited Contributions for Public Servants who retire on ill health grounds
Partial Capacity Benefit
Personal Reader Grant
Recently Bereaved
Recovery of Benefits and Assistance Scheme
Treatment Benefit Scheme
Back to Education Allowance
Part-Time Education Option
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Your Guide to our Schemes and Services: Retired and Older People. Available in a number of languages.
Claiming an EU Pension
Disablement Benefit
Free Travel Card: How to Use It
Free Travel Scheme
Incapacity Supplement
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
Daily Expenses Allowance
Deduction of Local Property Tax (LPT)
Fuel Allowance
Household Benefits Package
Humanitarian Assistance Scheme
Rent Supplement
Telephone Support Allowance
Increase for Living on a Specified Island
Living Alone Increase
Get a Personal Public Service (PPS) Number
Personal Public Service (PPS) Number Allocation Centres
Get a Public Service Card (PSC)
PSC/SAFE Registration Centres
SAFE Registration and the Public Services Card (PSC)
Application Form Request
Customer Feedback Form
MyWelfare.ie
MyWelfare.ie - Services available to Jobseekers
Part-Time/Casual/Short-Time Work Support Online Certification on MyWelfare.ie
PRSI Refund
Report Suspected Social Welfare Fraud
Request a Statement
Sign up for MyGovID
Submit Redundancy and Insolvency Claims on Welfare Partners
Apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate
Appoint someone to act on your behalf
Change/amend your bank details
Claiming Benefits Abroad
Find a Citizens Information Centre
Freedom of Information requests for the department
General Enquiry
How to get a social welfare payment into your bank
Magdalen Commission Scheme
Make a Subject Access Request
PRSI Refunds
Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
Translation, Interpretive and Sign Language Services
Volunteer Development Worker Scheme
Social Welfare Phone Numbers
Social Welfare Forms
Operational Guidelines
Taxable Social Welfare Payments/Schemes
Tax Exempt Social Welfare Payments/Schemes
Social Welfare Related Sites
Data Protection in the Department of Social Protection
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