€79 One payment, including VAT. No subscription. Introductory price until 30 November.
What you get
- The HSE form, filled in for you to check, sign and post
- Letters ready to send for the documents you need
- Each document checked as you add it
- A tracker your family can share, with reminders
Pay by card, answer six short questions, and your pack arrives by email. You need no documents today.
Fair Deal funding is never backdated. It starts only when the HSE approves the application, and missing documents are what hold approvals up.
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Leave a first name and a number. We reply within one working day to arrange a time, and the first call costs nothing and commits you to nothing. If the service is right for you, we agree it together before any payment. If you need a solicitor or an accountant instead, we will say so.
Your number is used only to ring you back. This is practical help with the paperwork, not legal, tax or financial advice, and it cannot guarantee any decision by the HSE.
See what we prepare for your family
Tap a picture to enlarge it. See a full sample pack (PDF)
Questions before you pay
What if the HSE returns the application?
If the HSE returns your form because of an error we made when preparing it, we correct it at no extra charge. Terms
Who can see our documents, and how are they kept?
Your answers may say something about the applicant’s health. They are used only for your application. Privacy notice
- Documents you upload to your tracker are kept in private storage in Ireland, within the EU, and deleted with it.
- Your documents are never sold or passed to anyone else. The person who opens the tracker decides who can see it.
- Card payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your card number, and we never ask you to type in PPS numbers or bank balances.
Can I talk to someone first? Yes, ask us to ring you back
Leave a first name and a number, and someone from fairdeal.ie will ring you back. There is no charge and no obligation. Your number is used only to ring you back.
Not ready to pay? Start with the free checklist. The HSE makes all decisions on applications and funding.
What is the main reason?
Thank you. That helps us improve the service.
Who is this for?
Everything here is about the person who is going into care. We call them the applicant.
Their situation
Married, civil partners, or living together as a couple for three years or more.
Income
Tick every source of income the applicant has. For a couple, tick the partner's too.
Savings and investments
Tick everything held, even small amounts. The HSE wants a statement for each.
Gifts to children, paying off someone's mortgage, signing over a house or land.
Property
Almost there
Two last things, then your checklist.
Your checklist
Tick items off as you gather them. Your ticks are saved on this device. Print it or have it emailed to you below.
Thank you. Only the tap is counted, nothing else.
That is everything we need
Press the button and we build your pack, your tracker and your letters from these answers. Your pack arrives by email within a minute or two.
You have your checklist. Now let us take the paperwork off your hands.
You know what this application needs. What comes next is writing to each bank, pension provider and the others for those documents, filling in the official HSE form, and keeping track of everything until it is ready to post. You do not have to organise all of that yourself. We prepare the application from your answers, give you the letters that request each document, check what comes back, and keep it moving. One payment. No subscription. See the paperwork before you pay
Everything on the left is at no charge, and some families manage with it. The service is for families who would rather not work it all out and chase every document themselves. Either way, the HSE makes every decision.
Read one of the nine letters: the request to a bank
This is the letter the service prepares for each bank the applicant holds an account with, with the names and numbers filled in from your answers. It asks for exactly what the HSE's financial assessment needs: six months of statements for every account.
Mary Byrne
14 The Green, Naas, Co. Kildare
3 November 2026
Bank of Ireland
Main Street, Naas, Co. Kildare
Re: Request for account statements, account ending 4821, Patrick Byrne
Dear Sir or Madam,
Patrick Byrne of 14 The Green, Naas, Co. Kildare is applying to the HSE for support under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Fair Deal). The HSE requires statements for the last six months for every account held, showing the name of the institution, the account holder’s name and the account number.
Please send statements covering the last six months for the account above to the address at the top of this letter.
Thank you for your help.
Yours faithfully,
______________________________
Patrick Byrne (account holder)
______________________________
Mary Byrne, on behalf of Patrick Byrne
Names and numbers above are invented. Your letters carry your own, and the dates the HSE will ask for in your case.
See the paperwork before you pay
Families are asked to pay for something they cannot hold, so here is the whole thing: a full pack made for an example applicant, Mary, with the completed form, the letters, the document tracker and the instructions a family receives. Yours is built from your own answers in the same way.
Open Mary’s example pack (PDF, 8 pages)
The letters in your tracker
- Letter of authority, signed once by the applicant, so banks and providers will deal with the person helping
- Request for account statements, for each bank, building society or credit union
- Request for a pension fund, ARF or life policy statement, to the provider
- Request for a Certificate of Market Value, to an auctioneer or valuer
- Request for confirmation of the State pension, to the Department of Social Protection
- Request for the deeds or title documents, to the bank or solicitor
- Covering letter to the Nursing Homes Support Office, to send with the form
- Follow-up letter to the support office if the decision is slow
- After approval, a letter asking the HSE to review the contribution if savings have fallen. The HSE does not lower it by itself; you have to ask.
Each one fills in your names and addresses for you. You print it, or send it by email from the tracker and the reply comes back to the tracker.
Not sure the service fits? A farm or business, a house already signed over to a child, a husband or wife still at home, or nobody with authority to sign. Ask someone to ring you back first, and we will tell you plainly whether the service fits before you pay anything.
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Our promise. If the HSE returns your application because of a mistake in how we filled in the form, we will correct it and prepare it again at no charge. What this covers
In plain words: we start straight away, so there is no 14-day cooling-off once your link is sent. Your answers may say something about the applicant’s health, and they are used only for your application. The person who opens the tracker decides who else can see it.
- Documents you upload to your tracker are kept in private storage in Ireland, within the EU, and deleted with it.
- Your documents are never sold or passed to anyone else. The person who opens the tracker decides who can see it.
- Card payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your card number, and we never ask you to type in PPS numbers or bank balances.
One payment, no subscription. You need no documents today: the letters that request them are in your tracker as soon as you pay.
What happens after you pay
- We email you the link to your own tracker straight away.
- You answer plain questions about the applicant, and the official HSE form is filled in from your answers, on your own device.
- You send our ready-made letters to get each document. The tracker shows what is still missing and reminds you.
- You check the form, sign it and post it to the HSE with the documents. You stay in control throughout.
Would you rather talk it through first? Ask someone to ring you back
Leave a first name and a number, and someone from fairdeal.ie will ring you back. There is no charge and no obligation. Your number is used only to ring you back.
Want a copy? Email me this checklist
We use your email to send the checklist, and we may email you once about our service. Nothing else is done with it. See our privacy notice.