Over 1.3m social welfare recipients are set to receive a €200 cash boost later this month.
The spring bonus cost of living payment will be paid out the week of April 24, depending on what day of the week your payment is due. It will be issued alongside your main qualifying payment in that week.
The payment is being issued to people in receipt of long-term social welfare payments. This will be paid to the primary recipients of the payments that receive the Christmas Bonus.
These are:
- Back to Education Allowance
- Back to Work Enterprise Allowance
- Back to Work Family Dividend
- Benefit payment for 65 year olds
- Blind Pension
- Carer's Allowance and Carer's Benefit (including half-rate Carer's Allowance)
- Community Employment
- Deserted Wife's Allowance and Benefit
- Daily Expenses Allowance, formerly called Direct Provision Allowance for 12 months
- Disability Allowance
- Disablement Benefit
- Domiciliary Care Allowance
- Farm Assist
- Guardian's Payment (Contributory) and (Non-Contributory)
- Illness Benefit for 12 months or more
- Invalidity Pension
- Jobseeker's Allowance for 12 months (312 days)
- Jobseeker's Transitional payment
- Magdalene Laundry Payment
- One-Parent Family Payment
- Partial Capacity Benefit
- Rural Social Scheme
- State Pension (Contributory) and (Non-Contributory)
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance for 12 months
- Tús
- Widow, Widower's or Surviving Civil Partner's Pension (Contributory) and (Non-Contributory)
A€200 payment for Working Family Payment recipients who have not received the lump sum on their primary payment, will also be paid in April. There will be one €200 lump sum paid, even if a person receives more than one qualifying social welfare payment.
Parents are also set to receive a cash boost in the coming months. An additional lump sum payment of €100 for each child will be paid in June with the regular Child Benefit payment.
There will also be an additional €100 payment will also be paid this year in respect of each child for whom the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance is paid. For a child aged from four to 11 years, the payment will be €260 and for children aged 12 to 22 years it will be €385.
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