The payment date for the third and final social welfare boost part of the spring cost of living package has been confirmed.
The €410m social welfare package was announced by the Government in February and included a €200 one off payment to all social welfare recipients in April and a €100 top-up per child in the June Child Benefit.
The final cash boost is a bonus of €100 per child in the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance. This will increase the allowance to €260 for each eligible child aged between 4 and 11 and to €385 for eligible children aged 12 to 22.
The scheme is now open and will close for applications on 30 September 2023. However, many families automatically qualify for the scheme and the Department of Social Protection has confirmed they can expect the payment during the week starting July 10.
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The Department of Social Protection said in a statement: "The majority of payments will be paid automatically with no application form required. Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance will be paid automatically to more than 120,000 families in respect of approximately 210,000 children during the week beginning 10 July.
"The Department of Social Protection is currently processing these payments and customers will receive confirmation informing them of their automatic entitlement, on their MyWelfare account or by post. This will result in approximately €70 million being paid to these families during the week beginning 10 July.
"Families who do not receive notification from the department of an automated payment should make an application online on MyWelfare.ie even if they received a payment last year."
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