Details of Social Welfare Payment Arrangements
Details of weekly Social Welfare Payment Arrangements for weeks beginning 23 March and 30 March
Published: 19 March 2020
From: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, announced today that a single payment to cover two weeks will be made to social welfare customers, beginning next week (Monday, 23 March) as a special response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The single payment giving two weeks of entitlement will be made on some social welfare schemes next week. Customers on the remaining schemes will be paid the two weeks entitlement in a single payment the following week. These payments will be made to customers who collect their payments at post offices and who are paid into a bank account.
An application form for the new Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment can be downloaded from the website www.gov.ie/jobseekers and returned to the department via Freepost at PO BOX 12896 Dublin 1.
Members of the public can apply for another income support through the online portal www.MyWelfare.ie, (they will need a Public Services Card); or phone the department on 1890 800 024 or 01 2481398 for the relevant application form for the new payment.
People receiving the following payments will be paid for 2 weeks during the week beginning 23 March 2020:
- Adoptive Benefit
- Back to Education Allowance
- Back To School Clothing and Footwear Allowance
- Back to Work Allowance
- Back To Work Enterprise Allowance
- Blind Pension
- Carers Allowance
- Carer’s Benefit
- Death Benefit
- Deserted Wife’s Allowance
- Deserted Wife’s Benefit
- Disability Allowance
- Disablement Benefit
- Employment Support Scheme
- Guardians Payment (Contributory)
- Guardians Payment (Non-Contributory)
- Health and Safety Benefit
- Illness Benefit
- Incapacity Supplement
- Increase for Living on an Island
- Invalidity Pension
- Magdalen Commission Scheme
- Maternity Benefit
- Medical Care
- Occupational Injury Benefit
- Parent’s Benefit
- Partial Capacity Benefit
- Paternity Benefit
- State Pension Contributory
- State Pension Non-Contributory
- Wage Subsidy Scheme
- Widow(er)s Pension Contributory
- Widowed Parent Grant
- Widowed Parent Grant Con
- Widow’s, Widower’s or Surviving Civil Partner’s Pension (Non Contributory)
- Youth Employment Support Scheme
People receiving the following payments will be paid for 2 weeks during the week beginning 30 March 2020:
- Back to Education Allowance*
- Back to Work Allowance
- Back to Work Family Dividend
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance
- Creche Supplement
- Diet Supplement
- Daily Expenses Allowance
- Farm Assist
- Heat Supplement
- Humanitarian Aid
- Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Jobseeker’s Benefit
- Jobseeker’s Benefit for the Self Employed
- One Parent Family Payment
- Part-time Job Incentive
- Rent Supplement
- Short Term Enterprise Allowance
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance
- Travel Supplement
- Working Family Payment
*Some recipients of the Back to Education Allowance will receive 2 weeks payment next week and others will receive their 2 weeks payment the following week.
