Exceptional Needs Payments (SWA)

An Exceptional Needs Payment is a single payment to help meet essential, once-off, exceptional expenditure, which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. I.e. if your income is low. In 2019 some 2,900 ENPs were paid at a cost of €5.8m for funeral & burial exp.

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Exceptional Needs Payments
Supplementary Welfare Allowance form
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