The community welfare service (CWS), and the community welfare officers providing it, formally transferred to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. Apart from a number of excluded categories, anyone in the State who satisfies a habitual residency condition and a means test, who has registered for employment, unless they have a physical or mental disability, and can prove unemployment may qualify for a weekly payment of supplementary welfare allowance (SWA).
Departmental records show that there are currently no social welfare claims pending for the person concerned. Should the person concerned wish to be considered for assistance from the Department he may make an application for jobseeker's allowance in his designated social welfare local office in Greendale Road, Kilbarrack, Dublin 5. Additionally he may wish to make an application for assistance under the SWA scheme. Applications for SWA can be made to the Department's designated representatives in the local health centre in Foxfield Crescent, Kilbarrack, Dublin 5. Full details in relation to the assistance available can be obtained on the Department's website on www.welfare.ie.