If the person on whose insurance record the Bereavement Grant is based, has insufficient Irish contributions alone to qualify for the grant, contributions can be added that were paid in a country covered by EC Regulations or that has a Bilateral Social Security Agreement with Ireland, provided that this insured person has paid at least 1 week's reckonable social insurance after returning to Ireland and before the date of death.
You should give details on the application form of any employment or periods of residence in the countries listed below. We will send the relevant papers, on your behalf, to the authorities in the country or countries concerned.
The countries covered by either EC Regulations or under a Bilateral Agreement are:
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Channel Islands
- Czech Republic
- Liechtenstein
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
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- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Italy
- Japan
- Latvia
- Spain
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- New Zealand
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- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Republic of Cyprus (Cyprus South)
- Republic of Korea
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- the Netherlands
- the United Kingdom
- the United States of America
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