You get Child Benefit on the first Tuesday of every month, either:
- at your local post office by Social Services Card,
or
- by direct payment into your current, deposit or savings account in a financial institution or an An Post Childcare Savings Account in:
- your own name, or
- the name of:
- you and your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant, or
- you and your child(ren), or
- your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant and your child(ren), or
- your child(ren) only, or
- your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant only.