Under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) scheme, the Community Welfare division of the Health Service Executive (HSE) may make a single payment to meet an exceptional need to people on social welfare or HSE payments.
The principal consideration in making a single payment of SWA to address a particular need is that the need to be met must be exceptional. Payments should arise only under abnormal conditions and should not become a regular or standard practice. Thus, an exceptional needs payment should be a single payment to meet an unforeseen and/or special need which cannot be met from a client's basic income.
The person concerned has recently received a number of ENPs from the HSE, however in one instance a payment was refused due to the nature of the particular application. The person concerned has been advised of his right to appeal the decision to refuse the ENP in this instance.