Institutions covered by the Payment Scheme

To be eligible for benefits, a person must have spent a certain amount of time in one (or more) of the Mother and Baby or County Home Institutions listed in table 1 or table 2 below.

Table 1 lists the institutions relevant for general payment, work-related payment and health supports, while those listed in Table 2 are relevant for the general payment and health supports only.

If the institution(s) you spent time in is not on these tables, then the institution is not included in the Payment Scheme and you are not eligible.

You will see that the tables include a ‘concluding year’. In order to be considered for benefits under the Payment Scheme, you will need to have entered the institution on or before 31 December of the concluding year.

Please note, the Regulation to amend the concluding year of certain institutions has been signed into law - please see the Statutory Instrument here.

The table below provides the detail of the institutions where a change to the concluding year has been amended. Please note the Information Booklet and Application Form are currently being updated. The revised versions will be uploaded as soon as possible.

Further information is available on the Eligibility criteria page.

Table 1 – Institutions relevant for general payment, work-related payment and health supports (subject to time spent)

Table 2 – Institutions relevant for general payment and health supports (subject to time spent)