PRACTICAL SUPPORT
Links and Bereavement Support Services
Practical Support
- RIP.ie – Death Notices
The website allows funeral directors to post death notices on the website without additional costs to the family. - Radio Kerry – Death Notices
- Death Registration & Death Certificate
For more information, please click here:
Registering a Death
4. Grant Assistance/ Exceptional Needs payment for funeral costs
5. Occupational Injury Benefit Scheme – Special Funeral Grant
6. Widowed Parent Grant (€8000)
7. Death of Social Welfare Recipient – six weeks further payment
When a person dies while in receipt of a social welfare payment, the payment will usually continue to be paid to the surviving partner/carer for six weeks after the date of death if they are a named dependent/carer.
Payments that may continue to be paid after death include:
- Back to Work Family Dividend
- Blind Pension
- Carer’s Allowance (continues to be paid for 12 weeks after death)
- Carer’s Benefit
- Disability Allowance
- Domiciliary Care Allowance (continues to be paid for 12 weeks after death)
- Farm Assist
- Illness Benefit
- Incapacity Supplement
- Injury Benefit
- Invalidity Pension
- Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Jobseeker’s Benefit
- State Pension (Contributory)
- State Pension (Non-contributory)
- Working Family Payment
To check your entitlements, contact your nearest Intreo centre or Social Welfare Branch Office or your nearest Citizens Information Centre. You can also phone the Citizens Information Phone Service on 0818 07 4000.
Bereavement Support
- www.hse.ie – You are not alone – Help and advice on coping with the death of someone close
- https://www2.hse.ie/mental-health/life-situations-events/bereavement/
- www.hse.ie – Bereavement
- www.gov.ie – Bereavement
- https://www.citizensinformationboard.ie/en/publications/information/leaflets.html – Bereavement – A Practical Guide
- www.carealliance.ie – The Way ahead
- www.widow.ie
- www.feileacan.ie
- www.anamcara.ie
- www.rainbowsireland.com
- www.hospicefoundation.ie
- www barnardos.ie