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Budget 2022: Grant
for Purchasing Wigs
A new grant which offers financial support to people who suffer hair loss is great news for all of us living with alopecia. Read the Irish Times announcement on 12 October 2021.
The following information was posted on the Citizens Information website (under the Social Welfare heading)
Disability and illness payments
The minimum paid PRSI contributions required to qualify for Treatment Benefit will decrease from 5 years (260 weeks) to 9 months (39 weeks) for people aged between 25 and 28 (June 2022).
A grant of 50% (up to €500) towards the cost of wigs, hairpieces or hair replacement systems due to illness will be introduced under the Treatment Benefit scheme (June 2022).
The income disregard for Carer's Allowance will increase from €332.50 to €350 for a single person and from €665 to €750 for a couple. The capital disregard will increase by €30,000 from €20,000 to €50,000 (June 2022).
The period during which Carer’s Allowance and Domiciliary Care Allowance can be paid for children in hospital will be extended from 3 months to 6 months (January 2022).
The earnings limit on Disability Allowance will increase by €25 from €350 to €375 and the weekly means disregard will increase from €2.50 to €7.60 (June 2022).
PhD scholarships will be disregarded in the means test for Blind Pension (January 2022).
Alopecia UK Blog
New Video Launched for Alopecia Awareness Month
September is Alopecia Areata Awareness Month. Roughly 147 million people globally suffer from inflammatory or stress-induced trauma-based hair loss. With Alopecia Areata your body is disrupting the growth cycle of the individual hair follicles in the predisposed area and typically manifests itself anywhere from the neck up. William Gaunitz, FWTS, Releases New Educational Video for September's Alopecia Areata Awareness Month..
Mar chuid de Mí Feasachta ar Alóipéice labhraíonn Karen Dempsey faoina táithi féin leis an ghalar. As part of Alopecia Areata Awareness Month Karen Dempsey speaks to Blas about her experience of the disease.
What is it like living with Alopecia? Sean Moncrieff chats with Lorraine Reilly and Eoin White
An Uncommon Beauty: dismantling the stigma of alopecia Sean Moncrieff chats with Anthony Griffin and Paddy Pender
TV3's Morning Show
Liz Shiel on TV3's Morning Show discussing how she has chosen to cope with alopecia universalis (complete loss of all body hair).
Bernadette McCarthy on TV3's Morning Show discussing alopecia universalis.
RTE’s Late Late Show
Actress and model, Amber Jean Rowan talks to Ryan about discovering she had alopecia as a teenager and details her attempts to hide her bald patches.
Radio interview on 7th April 2017 - Mel’s Life