Chapter 4 of 9: What an injury is worth: Special damages

What can be vouched? The special damages worksheet

Checked 14 October 2026against the Board's claimant pages, the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2013 and the Department of Social Protection's Injury Benefit page.

The Guidelines cover general damages only. Special damages, the money actually lost, are added and must be vouched. This worksheet lists them the way the Board and a court look at them, with the Injury Benefit figure from the Department as the deduction a respondent will raise, and the Board's own note that receipts can follow the application. It adds up each category and never a total: the Board or a court decides what is recoverable.

Loss of earnings: what you did not earn, and what a respondent will expect to see deducted

Kept in this tab only; closing it clears the worksheet. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Net weekly pay before the injuryTake-home pay; the payslips vouch it.Weeks off workThe accident was at work, or on the way to or from workInjury Benefit (Occupational Injuries Benefit): €254.00 a week from the fourth day for up to 26 weeks (rate from 2026-01-01, to be verified).Sick pay received from the employer, totalStatutory sick pay or the employer's scheme.

Expenses, care and future treatment: add each item as you find the receipt

CategoryGP, A&E, physiotherapy, prescriptions, scans, the medical report fee, aids and equipment.What it wasAmountDateI have the receipt, invoice or letter for thisReceipts and invoices, each dated; the Board says the reasonable cost of the treating doctor's report can be recovered in the award.

The worksheet records what you enter. It does not say what the Board or a court would allow, does not apply contributory negligence, and produces no figure for your claim.