The €200 spring bonus social welfare payment will be issued in the coming week.
The Government announced the payment in February as part of a €410 million social welfare package to help with the cost of living. Over 1.3m people on social welfare qualify for cash boost in addition to their normal weekly payment in the week commencing this Monday April 24.
Anyone who has been receiving social welfare supports for more than 12 months are eligible. However, those who receive multiple social welfare payments will only be paid one €200 bonus.
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The payment will be given to the primary recipients of the same 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)
Working Family Payment recipients who have not received the lump sum on their primary payment will also be paid the €200 this week.
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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