Update on Back to School Clothing & Footwear Allowance
Posted by Alan Kelly on September 23, 2013 at 02:18 PM
Applications Back to School Clothing & Footwear Allowance from customers who did not receive an automated payment are now being processed from a centralised unit in the Department’s office in Letterkenny. Some 68,000 additional applications have been received and an acknowledgement has issued by text to the 94% who requested one. A total o...f 59,500 manual claims have been processed to date, including all claims received up to the end of August. The BSCFA section is processing claims which were received on 4h September at present. Payment in respect of these claims will issue on a daily basis, so it is expected that the majority of customers will have their payment within four weeks of applying. Some 92% of customers who are expected to qualify for payment of BSCFA in 2013 have now been paid and a total of €44.1million has already been paid out in respect of this scheme for 2013
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