What is the Player Injury Benefit Fund?

It is a self-funded benefit fund funded entirely from GAA funds with no outside involvement.
It is a benefit fund funded by members for the members.
It is only in place to cover benefits which cannot be claimed elsewhere and is a benefit cover only.
It does not seek to compensate fully for Injuries sustained but to supplement other Schemes such as Personal Accident, Income Protection, Private Health Insurance, Schools Insurance for example.

It only provides cover for unrecoverable losses up to specified limits.
Maximum medical and dental expenses are covered up to €5,200.00 (This benefit includes cover for MRI scans up to a limit of €300.00 per scan and post-operative physiotherapy \ treatments up to a limit of €320.00)

Who can claim from the Player Injury Benefit Fund?

Registered players (logged on Foireann) who have paid their membership fees at time of injury
Match Officials, Voluntary coaches, managers, selectors, members of teams
Adult members of GAA i.e. someone who is a registered and paid member of the GAA and who is 18 years of age or over on the 1st Jan of the calendar year.
Youth members of GAA i.e. someone who is registered and paid member of the GAA and who is under 18 years of age on the 1st Jan of the calendar year.

How to claim from the Player Injury Benefit Fund?

If a claimant is seeking to claim benefit from the fund, they must exhaust all other avenues before making a claim under the GAA Injury Benefit Fund.
All claims must be reported online within 60 days of the injury date using the DWF Claims portal.

Please contact secretary.clannagaelfontenoy.dublin@gaa.ie to register a claim.
A club representative will be in touch to progress your claim further.

Note, the validity of a claim is greatly improved if injury is noted within referee’s report. If you do incur an injury whilst playing a GAA match please notify and ask the referee to include it within their post-match report.

More detail on the Player Injury Benefit Fund can be found here.