Benefits
Allowances: see under Benefits, social welfare
Back to Education Allowance
Social Welfare services,
Shannon Lodge, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim
Phone: (071) 967 2531
Run by Department of Social Welfare
Back to Work Allowance
Social Welfare services,
Shannon Lodge, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim
Phone: (071) 967 2574
Family Income Supplement
Social Welfare services,
Ballinalee Road, Longford
Phone: (043) 334 0000
(01) 704 3000
Free Travel
Social Welfare services,
College Road, Sligo
Phone: LoCall 1890 500 000
Funding, Grants
Grants for community activities may be sought from AIB’s Better Ireland Fund, the Family Support Agency, the International Fund for Ireland, the National Lottery,and www.mycharity.ie, among others.
The Health Service Executive and local Vocational Education Committees provide money for community education.
Gas allowance
Social Welfare services,
College Road, Sligo
Phone: LoCall 1890 500 000
Illness benefit
Enquiries
Phone: (01) 679 7777
Invalidity Pensions
Social Welfare services,
Ballinalee Road, Longford
Phone: (043) 334 0000
(01) 704 3000
Maternity allowance
Social Welfare services,
St. Oliver Plunket Road, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
Phone: LoCall 1890 690 690
Optical allowance
Social Welfare services,
St. Oliver Plunket Road, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
Phone: LoCall 1890 400 400
Rent Allowance
Social Welfare services,
Ballinalee Road, Longford.
Phone: (043) 334 0000
(01) 704 3000
Respite Care Grant
157-164 Townsend St., Dublin 2
Phone: (01) 673 2222
Sickness Benefit
Phone: Call Illness Benefit enquiries: (01) 679 7777
Supplementary Welfare Allowance
Social Welfare services
Phone: (071) 916 9800
Travel, free
Social Welfare Services, College Road, Sligo.
Phone: LoCall 1890 500 000.
Treatment benefits
Social Welfare Services, St. Oliver Plunket Road, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal.
Phone: LoCall 1890 400 400
dental, hearing, optical.
TV allowance
Social Welfare services,
College Road, Sligo
Phone: LoCall 1890 500 000
Unemployed, Irish National Organisation of the
Araby House, 8 North Richmond St., Dublin 1
Phone: (01) 856 0088
Widowed Parent Grant
Social Welfare services,
College Road, Sligo
Phone: LoCall 1890 500 000
Widowers’ Grant
Social Welfare services,
College Road, Sligo
Phone: LoCall 1890 500 000
Widowers’ Pensions
Social Welfare Services, College Road, Sligo.
Phone: LoCall 1890 500