Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 October 2013
237. Deputy Billy Timmins asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who left the live register to go onto back to education allowance in August and September 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44210/13]
View answerA total of 12,719 customers were re-classified as back to education allowance during the months of August and September 2013. The vast majority of these customers would have originally been in receipt of either jobseekers allowance or jobseekers benefit. It does, however, also include some other categories of customers, such as one-parent family payment, who are not included on the Live Register.
