One group of people who are in receipt of social welfare will not be eligible for the incoming cost-of-living bonus.
The €200 social welfare boost is set to arrive in accounts in just one week's time after it was announced in February as part of a spring cost-of-living package.
It is understood that it is due to land in accounts from Monday next, April 24.
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Thousands of core social welfare recipients will get the cash boost but a catch in the eligibility terms means that some people won't get it as they might expect it.
The €200 lump sum payment will be given to people who are on social welfare support for longer than 12 months.
If you have been on your social welfare payment for less than that, you will not receive the €200 cash boost.
Recipients are also reminded that even if they receive two or more of the social welfare payments, they 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 the 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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