What is it and how does it work?
A Fund to support and assist registered members in the event of an accidental bodily injury during Gaelic Games playing activities. The Fund is not an insurance cover. All Persons participate in Gaelic Games activities at your own risk.
If you do not have your own Personal Cover (Private Health Insurance, Personal Accident insurance cover) The GAA have the GAA Injury Benefit Fund in place to assist
If you have your own personal cover, you must submit a claim under that cover first and the Injury Fund will top up the shortfall to the fund benefit limits
Please click the here for the full terms and benefits of cover.
Key Benefits
- Medical \ Dental expenses
- Maximum of €5,500
- Loss of wages – weeks 2 – 26 to a maximum of €400 per week.
- Terms and Limits apply so please read the above documents
Submitting an injury notification
If you don’t have an active Foireann account, please contact your club registrar.
Claims must be reported within 60 days of the injury date to your GAA unit.
Claims assistance – email gaainjuryfund@allianz.ie or phone 01 6133559
Resources
If you have sustained an injury and wish to claim from the GAA Injury Benefit Fund, read on.
Any player seeking to benefit from the GAA Injury Benefit Fund must be a registered member of the Association on Foireann. Each player is responsible for logging their injury.
Mentors & parents of juveniles now need to have a Foireann account, be registered and have an active Foireann profile.
It will be the responsibility of the injured player to notify their claim and manage the claim accordingly. If the injured player is a minor \ underage player, their parent \ guardian will be able to notify the claim and manage it. There will be an option on Foireann to notify the claims and in advance of this, we would ask all GAA units to ensure that their playing members are registered on Foireann and that there is a membership number allocated to the individual player.
FAQs
The GAA Injury Benefit Fund is a fund available to affiliated units who register for the Fund and pay their registration fees by the agreed date which provides cover for benefits that cannot be claimed elsewhere to help alleviate the financial burden on those entitled to make a claim should they sustain an accidental bodily injury during an official match/sanctioned challenge match \ official supervised training session
GAA Injury Benefit Summary Document available here.
No, it is not insurance. There is no insurer involved in the operating of the Fund. All monies come from the GAA, €6 millon from annual registration fees and an additional €3million from Central Council contributions
Cover runs from January 1 – December 31 of each calendar year
There is no legal obligation on the GAA to provide the Fund and our affiliated units are not responsible for paying for surgeries, treatments required.
No, the Fund will only provide benefits up to the specified limits as set out in the GAA Injury Benefit Fund Summary document. Taking part in contact sports runs the risk of injuries occurring and players need to ensure they have adequate covers in place in the event that they sustain an injury.
- Registered Players as per the Official Guide who play on a team registered with the GAA Injury Benefit Fund who incur accidental bodily injury while playing Hurling, Gaelic Football, Handball or Rounders’ only, either in the course of an official competitive Fixture or an Official Sanctioned challenge match in the course of an official supervised training session.
- Match officials’ i.e. referees, linesmen or umpires injured while officiating at an official competitive fixture of Hurling, Handball, Gaelic Football or Rounders’ as specified in 1.1 above.
- Voluntary coaches, team managers, selectors and members of official team parties injured during games or training as specified in 1.1 above
GAA membership year runs from January 1st to December 31st each year. As does the GAA membership year, therefore any player who requires cover under the Fund should be registered on the GAA Management System (GMS) system prior to the beginning of training each year.
Cover is on a team basis, please refer to page 3 – GAA Injury Benefit Fund Summary Document – Funding and Subscriptions
Please refer to page 4 – GAA Injury Benefit Fund Summary Document – Registering for the Fund
See here for up to date information.
No, cover only commences from the date that the unit was marked off as paid by Páirc an Chrócaigh. See here for accurate dates.
DWF Claims are the GAA’s appointed claims handlers \ administrators who are handling all existing claims and new claims with effect from December 1, 2019
DWF Claims will be communicating with all units with regards to registering for the Injury Fund claims portal which will be available to https://gaabenefitsportal.dwfclaims.com/
No, all files have transferred to DWF Claims and all records for your unit will be available on the new portal been provided by DWF Claims at the above address
The on-line portal will not allow the registering of claims which are 60 days after the Injury date
- Medical – up to a maximum amount of €4500 per claim
- Dental – up to a maximum amount of €4500 per claim
- Loss of Wages – weeks 2 – 26 – covered up to a maximum of €300 per week
- Supplementary Hospital Benefit – 15 days continued hospitalization, but benefit will only be considered where the claimant is in hospital for an initial 10 consecutive days
- Medical – First €100 of each and every claim unless a claimant makes a successful claim with their Private Medical Insurer and in those circumstances, the excess is not charged
- Dental – First €100 of each and every claim unless a claimant makes a successful claim with their Private Medical Insurer and in those circumstances, the excess is not charged
- Loss of Wages – week 1 is not covered, a claimant must be unable to work for 14 consecutive days before a claim can be considered
- Supplementary Hospital Benefit: – First 10 consecutive days are not covered
Unrecoverable expenses are only covered up to two years after the injury date
Yes, the Fund works on a receipted basis and all treatment must be paid for in full and the receipts sent in for reimbursement.
The only physiotherapy \ treatments covered are those that take place after a surgical procedure. In the absence of surgery, there is no cover for physiotherapy \ treatments
Yes, cover under the Fund, is only in place for unrecoverable expenses that cannot be claimed elsewhere, therefore a claim must be made with the Private Medical Insurer and any shortfall not covered can be claimed for under the Fund as per the benefits covered – See Page 6 – Summary Document
No, a claimant must be in employment of at least 16 hours per week