Sri Lanka Aswesuma Welfare Benefit Calculator

The Welfare Benefits Board administers Aswesuma under the Welfare Benefits Act, No. 24 of 2002. Eligible households are placed into one of four tiers using a Proxy Means Test (PMT) scored by the Department of Census and Statistics. The monthly cash payment then has two components: a flat tier amount, plus per-member supplementary allowances for specific vulnerable categories.

The four-tier base schedule

• Severely Poor: Rs 15,000/month × 36 months = Rs 540,000 over the spell.
• Poor: Rs 8,500/month × 24 months = Rs 204,000 over the spell.
• Vulnerable: Rs 5,000/month × 12 months = Rs 60,000 over the spell.
• Transitional: Rs 2,500/month × 6 months = Rs 15,000 over the spell.

Tier amounts and durations are set by the Cabinet Decision of 11 July 2023 and published by the Department of Government Information. After the spell ends, the household must reapply and be reclassified — there is no automatic renewal.

Supplementary allowances (Budget 2025)

• Elderly (60+): Rs 3,000/month per qualifying member. Each household member aged 60 or above receives an extra monthly allowance.
• Disabled: Rs 7,500/month per qualifying member. Each member certified as a person with disabilities by the DS Division receives the disability allowance.
• Kidney patient: Rs 7,500/month per qualifying member. Each member with chronic kidney disease (clinically confirmed, separate from CKDu).
• CKDu patient: Rs 7,500/month per qualifying member. Each member with Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) — common in the North Central dry zone.

The combined monthly benefit is therefore:

monthly = tier_amount + (elderly × 3,000) + (disabled × 7,500) + (kidney × 7,500) + (ckdu × 7,500)

Lifetime payout for the spell is simply monthly × duration_months. Paid-to-date is monthly × months_elapsed (capped at the lifetime total), and remaining is the difference. The tool exposes an independent recomputation — base-only total plus per-supplement total summed across the spell — which must match the primary calculation to the rupee. When it does, the “Cross-checked” badge appears next to the result tiles.

Tier classification itself is out of scope: the DCS publishes the PMT variable list (household size, dependants, housing, durable goods, income proxies, disability and chronic illness) but the scoring weights are not public, so guessing a tier from inputs could mislead applicants. Use the calculator to plan around the tier you have been assigned, or to see what an appeal to a higher tier could be worth.

The Department of Census and Statistics scores each applicant household against a fixed set of variables. The list itself is public; the regression weights used to compute the final PMT score are not. We surface the variable list here as a reference so you can check what information the DS Division will ask for.

• Household size and composition
• Number of children, elderly, and disabled dependants
• Highest education level of the household head
• Employment status and income of working-age members
• Housing type, ownership and number of rooms
• Access to safe drinking water, electricity and sanitation
• Ownership of durable assets (refrigerator, motorbike, TV, etc.)
• Land and livestock ownership
• Whether the household receives remittances or other transfers
• Disability and chronic-illness status of any member

Source: DCS — Aswesuma selection methodology (statistics.gov.lk).

• Welfare Benefits Board — official site (welfarebenefits.gov.lk)
• Cabinet Decision of 11 July 2023 — Aswesuma payment tiers and durations
• Welfare Benefits Act, No. 24 of 2002 (Parliament of Sri Lanka)
• Ministry of Finance — Budget Speech 2025 (supplementary allowances)
• Department of Census and Statistics — Aswesuma selection methodology

This calculator's tier amounts, durations and supplementary allowances were last cross-checked against the official sources on 2026-05-16. The page is reviewed whenever the Welfare Benefits Board issues a new payment circular or the Budget changes the supplementary rates.