Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 December 2012
392. Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Social Protection the total amount of money annually for carer's allowance, disability allowance and invalidity pension from 2005 to 2012; and if there is ongoing assessment of applicants to determine their continuing qualification for the payment in question. [56880/12]
View answerThe table gives the expenditure per scheme for the disability allowance scheme, the invalidity pension scheme and the carer’s allowance scheme from 2005 to 2012.
Table 1
Number of recipients and expenditure per scheme
|
Year |
Disability Allowance |
Invalidity Pension |
Carer’s Allowance |
|
- |
€000 |
€000 |
€000 |
|
2005 |
630,728 |
548,285 |
223,059 |
|
2006 |
738,431 |
602,414 |
284,584 |
|
2007 |
901,131 |
618,133 |
361,257 |
|
2008 |
1,052,660 |
685,717 |
450,260 |
|
2009 |
1,142,769 |
681,642 |
502,469 |
|
2010 |
1,109,505 |
639,994 |
501,789 |
|
2011 |
1,089,178 |
606,502 |
507,193 |
|
2012 to Oct-12 |
920,622 (*) |
494,872 (*) |
419,658 (*) |
(*) provisional
For each of the schemes concerned, a programme of control reviews is carried out annually to determine on-going entitlement. Customers are selected for review according to the risk of their circumstances changing, either in terms of medical eligibility, changes in their means or other changes of circumstances that may affect their entitlement. The majority of reviews carried out are in respect of cases with the highest risk of a change in circumstances. The remainder of reviews are carried out on cases with medium risk with a few low risk cases also being reviewed. In addition, reviews are also undertaken arising from various data matching exercises carried out where the Department’s data is compared to relevant data held by, for example, Revenue, the Private Rental Tenancies Board and the General Registrar’s Office. Control reviews are also carried out, as appropriate, in response to anonymous reports received from the public.
Questions No. 393 to 395, inclusive, withdrawn.
