Fuel Allowance
The National Fuel Scheme is intended to help households that depend on long-term social welfare or Health Service Executive payments and are unable to provide for their own heating needs. A household may receive only one Fuel Allowance
The National Fuel Scheme is intended to help households that depend on long-term social welfare or Health Service Executive payments and are unable to provide for their own heating needs. The Scheme Operates for 26 weeks from September to April.
Smokeless Fuel Allowance (SMOG)
The Smokeless Fuel Allowance will no longer be payable from September 2011. Smokeless Fuel Allowance was paid to customers in towns where the sale of bituminous fuel is banned. The Smokeless Allowance was introduced at a time when many more people used coal and there was a big price difference between the types of coal. This situation has changed with the price differential between smoky and smokeless coal dropping considerably over the years and is now as low as 2%, significantly less than the 20% supplement which the Smokeless Allowance represents. Smokeless fuel is also much more energy efficient than conventional coal.