The €200 social welfare bonus is set to land in accounts in the coming weeks but not all welfare recipients are eligible.
The boost payment was announced in February as part of a spring cost of living package and is due to land in accounts in the week commencing April 24.
Thousands of core Social Welfare recipients will get the cash boost but a catch in the eligibility means some people won't get it as they might expect.
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The €200 lump sum payment will be given to people who are on social welfare supports for longer than 12 months.
If you have been on your social welfare payment for less than that, you will not be eligible for the €200 cash boost.
As well as this, even if you receive two of the social welfare payments, you will only get one €200 bonus, not multiple.
The same groups that received the Christmas Bonus in 2022 are eligible for this €200 bonus lump sum, including those on Jobseekers payments or Illness Benefit for over 12 months, and people in receipt of Working Family Payment.
These groups 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)
Working Family Payment recipients who are yet to receive their first payment, will also get it at the end of April.
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