New on Citizens Information

Budget 2024 will be announced on Tuesday, 10 October 2023. The Digital Content team will publish a summary of Budget 2024 provisions following the Minister’s speech.

The HSE has resumed assigning GPs to medical card and GP visit card applicants.  If you are refused by 3 GPs, the HSE will assign a doctor to you. State this on your application, including the names of declining GPs and their clinics. The GPs need to be based at 3 different clinics.

Fuel Allowance season started on 25 September 2023. It will be paid for 28 weeks, until 5 April 2024. The current rate of payment is €33 per week, or you can choose to get it paid in 2 lump sum instalments.

There will be a moratorium on electricity disconnections from:

• 1 October 2023 to 31 March 2024, for vulnerable customers
• 1 December 2023 until 31 January 2024, for all other domestic customers

You are no longer required to provide copies of birth certificates to claim a social welfare payment if you were born in Ireland and your birth is in the Register of Births. The Department of Social Protection can access this information directly.

New and recently edited

New pages:

• Vacant homes
• Anti-social behaviour and rent arrears in social housing
• Returning to education

These pages have been reviewed and improved:

• Transfer of business (TUPE)
• Understanding your employment status
• International child abduction
• Further education and training (FET) courses
• Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS)