The government has announced the Christmas Bonus will be paid to over 1 point 5 million social welfare recipients this week, 54,900 of them in Donegal.
Eligible recipients include pensioners, carers, people with disabilities, and lone parents.
The bonus will be issued alongside regular weekly payments.
Minister for Social Protection, Dara Calleary says over a million households will benefit from the support………….
Christmas Bonus
People who are getting the following payments will get the Christmas bonus.
- Back to Education Allowance *
- Back to Work Enterprise Allowance
- Back to Work Family Dividend
- Beneficiary of Temporary Protection Weekly Payment
- Blind Pension
- Carer’s Allowance
- Carer’s Benefit
- Community Employment
- Daily Expenses Allowance *
- Deserted Wife’s Allowance
- Deserted Wife’s Benefit
- Disability Allowance
- Disablement Benefit
- Domiciliary Care Allowance
- Farm Assist
- Guardian’s Payment
- Illness Benefit *
- Invalidity Pension
- Job Initiative Scheme
- Jobseeker’s Allowance *
- Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment
- Magdalen Commission Scheme
- Death Benefit Scheme (under the Occupational Injuries Scheme)
- One-Parent Family Payment
- Partial Capacity Benefit
- Rural Social Scheme
- State Pension (Contributory)
- State Pension (Non-contributory)
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance (long-term)
- Tús (community work placement initiative)
- Bereaved Partner’s (Contributory) Pension
- Bereaved Partner’s (Non-Contributory) Pension
- Work Placement Experience Programme*
*12 months duration on eligible social welfare payment or scheme is required in order to be eligible for Bonus.
