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"Our Mission is to promote a caring society through ensuring access to income support and related services, enabling active participation, promoting social inclusion and supporting families."
Produced by the Information Service - Department of Social and Family Affairs
"keeping you informed"
This Guide gives information on all social welfare services.
All our information booklets and application forms are available on theInternet at www.welfare.ie. These booklets set out more fully the qualifying conditions of the various schemes.
Copies of the Department’s publications (listed in Appendix 8) are available free of charge from your Social Welfare Local Office or from: Information Services Department of Social and Family Affairs Social Welfare Services College Road Sligo
A factsheet issues following each budget updating the information contained in this SW 4. This factsheet is available from our Leaflet Request Line Telephone: 1890 20 23 25.
The Rates of Payment booklet SW 19, with the current rates of social welfare, is also available.
This Guide is also available in Irish. Other formats of this guide can be made available on request to people with special needs.
Please note that this book is intended as a guide only and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.uide to Social Welfare Services
Note: LoCall (1890) numbers can only be used from the Republic of Ireland. The rates charged for the use of these numbers may vary among different service providers.
◊ Section 1. Social Welfare Payments Explained 1.1 Types of Payments 1.2 Increases for qualified adults or qualified children 1.3 Special Arrangements 1.4 How Payments are Made 1.5 Qualifying for Social Insurance Payments 1.6 Qualifying for Social Assistance Payments 1.7 Recovery of Social Welfare Overpayments 1.8 Social Welfare Appeals Office
◊ Section 2. Social Insurance 2.1 Your Personal Public Service Number (PPS No.) 2.2 Your PRSI Record 2.3 Pay-Related Social Insurance 2.4 PRSI Contribution Classes 2.5 Self-Employed Contributions 2.6 Special Collection System 2.7 Voluntary PRSI Contributions 2.8 PRSI 'Credits' 2.9 Worksharing 2.10 PRSA's
◊ Section 3. Benefits Abroad 3.1 Social Insurance and EC Regulations 3.2 Bilateral Social Security Agreements with other Countries
◊ Section 4. Retired or Older People 4.1 State Pension (Transition) 4.2 State Pension (Contributory) 4.3 Homemakers 4.4 State Pension (Non-Contributory) 4.5 Protecting your occupational pension rights
◊ Section 5. Widows, Widower's and One-Parent Families 5.1 Widow's or Widower's Contributory Pension 5.2 Widow's or Widower's Non-Contributory Pension 5.3 Widowed Parent Grant 5.4 One-Parent Family Payment 5.5 Your duty to support your family
◊ Section 6. Child Related Payments 6.1 Child Benefit 6.2 Maternity Benefit 6.3 Adoptive Benefit 6.4 Health and Safety Benefit 6.5 Guardian’s Payment (Contributory) 6.6 Guardian’s Payment (Non-Contributory) 6.7 School Meals Programme
◊ Section 7. Illness, Disability and Caring 7.1 Illness Benefit 7.2 Invalidity Pension 7.3 Disability Allowance 7.4 Blind Pension 7.5 Carer's Benefit 7.6 Carer's Allowance 7.7 Respite Care Grant 7.8 Injury Benefit 7.9 Disablement Benefit 7.10 Medical Care 7.11 Death Benefit - Widow's or Widower's Pension - Guardian's Payment - Funeral Grant
◊ Section 8. Unemployment Supports 8.1 Applying for a Jobseekers Payment 8.2 How to Qualify for a Jobseekers Benefit or Allowance 8.3 How much can I get? 8.4 How do I get my payment? 8.5 Can I work while getting a Jobseekers Payment? 8.6 Optional a Jbseekers Allowance 8.7 Extra Benefits
◊ Section 9. Employment Supports 9.1 Family Income Supplement 9.2 Farm Assist 9.3 Facilitators 9.4 Back to Work Allowance (BTWA) 9.5 Back to Work Enterprise Allowance (BTWEA) 9.6 Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme (PTJI) 9.7 Employers' PRSI Exemption Scheme 9.8 Revenue Job Assist 9.9 Partnerships 9.10 Study 9.11 Back to Education Programme (BTEA) 9.12 Education, Training and Development Option 9.13 Work and your Medical Card
◊ Section 10. Extra Benefits 10.1 Treatment Benefit 10.2 Bereavement Grant 10.3 Continuing Payment after a Death in the Family 10.4 National Fuel Scheme 10.5 Smokeless Fuel Allowance 10.6 Free Travel 10.7 Household Benefits Package 10.8 Increase for Living Alone 10.9 Increase for living on a specified Island 10.10 Rent Allowance for Tenants affected by the De-control of Rents
◊ Section 11. Supplementary Welfare Allowance 11.1 Supplementary Welfare Allowance 11.2 Rent and Mortgage Interest Supplements 11.3 Special Needs Supplements 11.4 Exceptional Needs Payments 11.5 Urgent Needs Payments 11.6 Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance
◊ Section 12. Family Services 12.1 Family Affairs Unit 12.2 Family Support Agency 12.3 Family Mediation Service 12.4 Grants for Voluntary Organisations providing Marriage, Child and Bereavement Counselling Services 12.5 Family and Community Services Resource Centres
◊ Section 13. Money Advice and Budgeting Services 13.1 Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS)
◊ Appendices ◊ Appendix 1: Head Offices of the Department of Social and Family Affairs ◊ Appendix 2: Other Social Welfare Offices ◊ Appendix 3: Regional Managers and Regional Co-Ordinators ◊ Appendix 4: Area Company Managers under the Area-Based Schemes ◊ Appendix 5: List of MABS Offices ◊ Appendix 6: Offices Administering Health Services ◊ Appendix 7: Other Useful Addresses ◊ Appendix 8: Information Leaflets or Booklet
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