{"id":84232,"date":"2025-10-16T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84232\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:41:07","slug":"thousands-in-ireland-could-be-earning-an-extra-e130-with-little-known-social-welfare-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84232\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands in Ireland could be earning an extra \u20ac130 with little known social welfare payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ireland<\/a> could be availing of a little known social welfare payment of \u20ac130 per year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Citizen&#8217;s Information, the Telephone Support Allowance (TSA) is an extra weekly payment for people on certain social welfare payments who are also getting both the Living Alone Increase and the Fuel Allowance.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/news\/national-news\/1920202\/murder-investigation-underway-as-teenager-stabbed-to-death-while-in-tusla-care-is-named.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Murder investigation underway as teenager stabbed to death while in Tusla care is named<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is the Telephone Support Allowance?<\/p>\n<p>The Telephone Support Allowance (TSA) is an extra weekly payment for people on certain social welfare payments who are also getting both the Living Alone Increase and the Fuel Allowance.<\/p>\n<p>It can help people living alone with the cost of communications or a home alert system.<\/p>\n<p>You do not need to apply for Telephone Support Allowance because it is paid automatically to people who qualify. It is paid with your main weekly social welfare payment.<\/p>\n<p>How to qualify for Telephone Support Allowance<\/p>\n<p>To qualify, you must be getting both the Living Alone Increase and the Fuel Allowance along with one of the following payments:<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/news\/weather\/1920268\/dry-spell-to-come-to-an-end-as-met-eireann-forecasts-torrential-rain-for-weekend-ahead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dry spell to come to an end as Met \u00c9ireann forecasts torrential rain for weekend ahead<\/a><\/p>\n<p> State Pension (Contributory)<br \/>\n State Pension (Non-Contributory)<br \/>\n Bereaved Partner&#8217;s (Contributory) Pension<br \/>\n Bereaved Partner&#8217;s Pension under the Occupational Injuries Benefit Scheme<br \/>\n Invalidity Pension<br \/>\n Disability Allowance<br \/>\n Blind Pension<br \/>\n Disablement Pension (Incapacity Supplement)<br \/>\n Deserted Wife&#8217;s Benefit<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"bc4n6\">The weekly rate of\u00a0Telephone Support Allowance is \u20ac2.50 which adds up to \u20ac130 per year.\u00a0The Telephone Support Allowance is an additional sum paid on the same day and by the same method, as your main weekly payment.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about the Telephone Support Allowance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ie\/en\/department-of-social-protection\/services\/telephone-support-allowance\/?referrer=https:\/\/www.welfare.ie\/en\/Pages\/Telephone-Support-Allowance.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of people across Ireland could be availing of a little known social welfare payment of \u20ac130 per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[943,61,60,43,174,11258],"class_list":["post-84232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cost-of-living","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-personal-finance","tag-social-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}