back to school allowance

danois

Does anyone know where we go to claim the clothing and footwear allowance now i have been told the cwo is not accepting the forms this year????

chasm

According to welfare.ie the HSE is still responsible for this payment:

http://www.welfare.ie/EN/Schemes/SupplementaryWelfareAllowance/Pages/BacktoSchoolClothingandFootwearAllowance.aspx

It also states that:

If you got the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance last year, you will be sent an application form in the post.

If you did not get the Allowance last year, you can get an application form at your local health centre.

Was it your CWO that actually told you they were not accepting the forms this year?
If it was, i would ask them where you have to apply.

danois

i did they told me they are no longer responsible for it the hse are but the hse told me that they are not dealing with it so now im really confused ?

chasm

That doesnt sound right to me. I thought the CWO was part of the HSE?

All i can suggest is you phone the HSE Infoline: Callsave: 1850 24 1850

http://www.hse.ie/eng/Find_a_Service/infoline/

linx

I have just been to see my cwo and its true the arent taking the forms anymore.
From sometime this week the will have a poster up in there offices and information in the national papers explaing this change, we will be told to send it to a po box number. Apparently a new goverment department are in charge and now it will take 6 to 8 weeks to get the grant insted of 2 to 3 weeks, so we might get it before the kids go back to school if were lucky.
I can see a lot of kids going to school without all there books at the start of september.

deelite

Has anybody received their "back to school allowance" payment yet.

KittyeeTrix

My husband went and filled out our Back to School allowance form yesterday and then handed it into the local CWO officer personally.
He wasn't told anything about the CWO not dealing with it

Must ring the CWO officer tomorrow and make certain that he is gonna deal with it

chasm

Hope this helps......(They have each county listed and the arrangements and you can download the form also)

http://communitywelfareservice.ie/cws_public/content/back-school-clothing-and-footwear-scheme-application-arrangements

Back to School Clothing and Footwear Scheme - Application arrangements

This scheme gives assistance towards the cost of clothing and footwear for children of school going age. The scheme operates from the start of June to the end of September each year. It is an administrative scheme, separate from the Supplementary Welfare Allowance scheme, and both the qualifying criteria and assessment are different.

An application form for the scheme is available here, and further information on qualifying criteria and rates is available from the Department of Social and Family Affairs website. There are regional variations on how it is administered. See below for further details of administration arrangements by County.

KittyeeTrix

Cheers Chasm,
Really useful info there.
Thanks again

kleefarr

deelite wrote: »

Has anybody received their "back to school allowance" payment yet.

No, we sent ours off the same day we received it, 3rd July and we still haven't received it.

finishedart

danois wrote: »

Does anyone know where we go to claim the clothing and footwear allowance now i have been told the cwo is not accepting the forms this year????

The forms are available from your local Health Centre and you return them to an address which is on the form. The CWOs don't deal with them this year.