Aswesuma Payment Check 2026 & Benefit Calculator

induwara.lk does not hold, host or mirror any Aswesuma beneficiary list, selected-name list or payment list. The calculator above works out what a tier is worth in rupees once you already know your tier. Everything to do with your own household, the category you were placed in, whether a payment is due, which bank account it goes to, lives on the Welfare Benefits Board's own systems. Nothing you type on this page is sent to the WBB. The steps below are what the WBB publishes; they were read off its sites on 2026-09-22.

1. Look up your own household record

The WBB's household lookup is the closest thing to an official “payment check”. Open iwms.wbb.gov.lk/household/public and enter your Household (HH) Reference Number. The record it returns shows the Grama Niladhari division, the household reference, the applicant's name and identity, the address, the Selected Category, any appeals and objections on file, the Bank Account status, bank, branch, account number and account name, and the Payable Status. It also shows the family, education, health and economic figures recorded for the household, which are what the Proxy Means Test scores.

If you do not have the HH reference number, iwms.wbb.gov.lk/household/search searches the Social Register by an applicant or member's NIC, or by household reference number.

2. What the “payment list” or “selected name list” actually is, and where the WBB publishes it

There is no single national PDF called the Aswesuma payment list. What the WBB publishes is the Social Register, browsable by area, and the WBB's own site labels it the List of Eligible Families. Open iwms.wbb.gov.lk/household/list, pick your Province, then District, then Divisional Secretariat Division, then Grama Niladhari Division, choose Sinhala, English or Tamil, and press View Registry. That is the list people mean when they search for whether their name was selected.

3. If your name is missing or the category is wrong

Objections and appeals are filed through the WBB's e-services portal at eservices.wbb.gov.lk, which the WBB links from its homepage as “Submission of objection and appeals - 2025”. The WBB also publishes printable objection and appeal forms in Sinhala and Tamil, for the second phase's second list of eligible names, in the Download section of wbb.gov.lk. Objections and appeals are also accepted at your Divisional Secretariat.

4. Recent payment batches announced by the WBB

The WBB announces each payment run as a dated notice on its own site. These are the two most recent English notices published there as of 2026-09-22. The rupee totals are programme-wide allocations, not per-household amounts.

• 12 March 2026, March Aswesuma allowance. First- and second-phase Aswesuma benefits available through Aswesuma bank accounts from 12 March 2026. The WBB gives 1,408,635 first-phase families, Rs 11,179,801,250.00, and 256,565 second-phase families, Rs 2,350,530,000.00. WBB notice
• 29 May 2026, elderly allowance. The elderly allowance for first-phase Aswesuma, and the allowance for second-phase elderly beneficiaries, available from the Aswesuma bank account from 29 May. For May 2026 the WBB gives 625,128 first-phase elderly beneficiaries, Rs 3,125,600,000.00, and 73,663 second-phase elderly beneficiaries, Rs 368,315,000.00. WBB notice

A payment being announced does not mean it has reached your account. Once the WBB has released a batch, whether a specific month has been credited is a question for your bank, the Payable Status and bank details on the household lookup in step 1 are what the WBB itself shows.

5. If you need a person

The WBB hotline is 1924. Its email is [email protected] and its office is the J.R. Jayawardene Centre, 191 Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 00700. Your Divisional Secretariat and Grama Niladhari handle registration, objections and appeals in person. A standing notice on the WBB homepage asked first-phase applicants, receiving benefits or not, to update their information between 10 November and 10 December 2025, quoting the same 1924 hotline; that window has closed, but it is the kind of notice worth checking wbb.gov.lk for.

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 17,500/month × 36 months = Rs 630,000 over the spell.
• Poor: Rs 10,000/month × 24 months = Rs 240,000 over the spell.
• Vulnerable: Rs 5,000/month × 12 months = Rs 60,000 over the spell.
• Transitional: Rs 5,000/month × 6 months = Rs 30,000 over the spell.

The Severely Poor and Poor amounts were raised by the Cabinet decision of 2 December 2024 and gazetted for January 2025; the spell durations are those of the original Cabinet Decision of 11 July 2023. After the spell ends, the household must reapply and be reclassified. There is no automatic renewal.

Two caveats the calculator cannot apply for you. First, only the Severely Poor and Poor tiers are still being paid: Transitional payments ended after the extension to 30 April 2025, and Vulnerable payments were discontinued in June 2026, pending the re-verification the Board expects to finish at the end of September 2026. A household re-assessed into Poor or Severely Poor is paid at that tier. Both retired tiers are kept above so a past spell can still be priced. Second, the December 2024 gazette pays half the tier amount to households of two or fewer members. The calculator does not ask for household size, so halve the tier amount yourself if that is you.

Supplementary allowances (Cabinet decision, March 2025)

• Elderly (70+): Rs 5,000/month per qualifying member. Each household member aged over 70 receives an extra monthly allowance.
• Disabled: Rs 10,000/month per qualifying member. Each member certified as a person with disabilities by the DS Division receives the disability allowance.
• Kidney patient: Rs 10,000/month per qualifying member. Each member with chronic kidney disease (clinically confirmed, separate from CKDu).
• CKDu patient: Rs 10,000/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 × 5,000) + (disabled × 10,000) + (kidney × 10,000) + (ckdu × 10,000)

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 Office: amendments to the Aswesuma scheme, 2 December 2024 (Severely Poor Rs 17,500, Poor Rs 10,000)
• Cabinet Office: revision of the Aswesuma scheme, 17 March 2025 (elderly Rs 5,000; disabled, kidney and CKDu Rs 10,000)
• Newswire: December 2024 gazette on the Aswesuma monthly payments, effective January 2025
• National Secretariat for Persons with Disabilities: Rs 10,000 monthly allowance for kidney patients and persons with disabilities
• Cabinet Decision of 11 July 2023: the original Aswesuma tiers and spell durations
• Welfare Benefits Act, No. 24 of 2002 (Parliament of Sri Lanka)
• Ministry of Finance: Budget Speech 2025 (Aswesuma programme allocation)
• 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 2026-09-26. The page is reviewed whenever the Welfare Benefits Board issues a new payment circular or a Cabinet decision changes the tier or supplementary rates.