Collection
Social Welfare Schemes and Services
- Published on: 8 March 2020
- Last updated on: 2 July 2025
- Children and Families
- Jobseekers
- Health
- Education
- Pensions
- Homes
- PPSN and PSC
- Online Services
- Other Services
- Phone Number Directory
- Social Welfare Forms
- Operational Guidelines
- Information on Taxable Social Welfare Payments/Schemes
Children and Families
- Activation and Family Support Programme
- Adoptive Benefit
- After School Childcare Scheme
- Apply for birth, death, marriage, adoption, civil partnership and stillbirth certificates
- Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance
- Back to Work Family Dividend
- Basic Supplementary Welfare Allowance
- Child Benefit
- Deserted Wife's Allowance
- Deserted Wife's Benefit
- Get married in Ireland
- Guardian's Payment
- Increase for a Qualified Adult
- Increase for a Qualified Child
- Maternity Benefit
- One-Parent Family Payment
- Parent's Benefit
- Paternity Benefit
- Record of Death Abroad
- Register a birth in Ireland
- Register a death in Ireland
- Register a stillbirth
- School Meals Scheme
- Widowed or Surviving Civil Partner Grant
- Working Family Payment
Jobseekers
- More information about Schemes and Services: Employment Services and Supports
- More information about Schemes and Services: Employer Services and Supports
- Intreo - the public employment service
- Access the EmployAbility Service
- Back to Work Enterprise Allowance
- Benefit of Work Estimator
- Benefit Payment for 65 Year Olds
- Close My Jobseeker's Claim
- Community Employment Programme
- Community Employment Ex-Gratia Payment for Supervisors and Assistant Supervisors
- COVID-19 Related Lay-Off Payment Scheme
- Enterprise Support Grant
- Farm Assist
- Find your local Intreo Centre
- Holidays and Social Welfare Payments
- Insolvency Payments Scheme
- Intreo Employment and Income Supports
- Jobseeker's Allowance
- Jobseeker's Benefit
- Jobseeker's Benefit for the Self-Employed
- Jobseeker's Transitional Payment
- JobsIreland
- JobsPlus
- JobsPlus Online Application for Employers and Employees
- Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme
- Jobseeker's Pay Related Benefit
- Professional Artists on Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Reasonable Accommodation Fund
- Redundancy Calculator
- Redundancy Payments Scheme
- Rural Social Scheme
- Self-Employed Benefits
- Short Term Enterprise Allowance
- Short-Time Work Support
- Special Funeral Grant (under the Occupational Injuries Benefit scheme)
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) Supplements
- Training Support Grant
- Tús (community work placement initiative)
- Voluntary Work Option
- Wage Subsidy Scheme
- Work Placement Experience Programme
- Work Placement Experience Programme - Employers
- Work and Access
Health
More information about Schemes and Services: Illness, Disability and Caring.
- Additional Needs Payment
- Bereavement
- Blind Pension
- Carer's Allowance
- Carer's Benefit
- Carer's Support Grant
- Constant Attendance Allowance
- Death Benefit Scheme (under the Occupational Injuries Scheme)
- Dietary Supplement
- Disability Allowance
- Domiciliary Care Allowance
- Health and Safety Benefit
- HomeCaring
- Homemaker’s Scheme
- Illness Benefit
- Income supports following a bereavement
- Injury Benefit
- Invalidity Pension
- Long-Term Carers Contribution Periods
- Medical Care Scheme
- PRSI Credited Contributions for Public Servants who retire on ill health grounds
- Partial Capacity Benefit
- Reasonable Accommodation Fund
- Recovery of Benefits and Assistance Scheme
- Special Funeral Grant (under the Occupational Injuries Benefit scheme)
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) Supplements
- Treatment Benefit Scheme
- Voluntary Work Option
- Wage Subsidy Scheme
- Work and Access
Education
Pensions
- Claiming an EU Pension
- Disablement Benefit
- Free Travel Card: How to Use It
- Free Travel Scheme
- Incapacity Supplement
- Invalidity Pension
- Pension Calculator
- Pension Caring Supports
- State Pension (Contributory)
- State Pension (Non-contributory)
- Transfer of Private Pensions to Ireland for returning Irish Emigrants
- Widow’s, Widower’s or Surviving Civil Partner’s (Contributory) Pension
- Widow’s, Widower’s or Surviving Civil Partner’s (Non-contributory) Pension
Homes
PPSN and PSC
PPS Number
PSC
Online Services
Other Services
- Access Officers under the Disability Act 2005
- Additional Needs Payment
- Apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate
- Appoint someone to act on your behalf
- A1 Certificates - Social insurance in Europe
- Change/amend your bank details
- Claiming Benefits Abroad
- Find a Citizens Information Centre
- Find your local Intreo Centre
- Freedom of Information requests for the department
- General Enquiry
- Habitual Residence Condition
- How to get a social welfare payment into your bank
- Magdalen Commission Scheme
- Make a Subject Access Request
- PRSI Refunds
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
- Volunteer Development Worker Scheme