Social Welfare Benefits Data

Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Questions (272)

Eoghan Murphy

Question:

272. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons receiving disability allowance, illness benefit and invalidity pension this year, and every year since 1994, broken down by benefit category; the total number of persons in receipt of one or more of these allowances each year; and the total cost to the Exchequer for each of these years. [26734/14]

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Minister for Social Protection

The information requested by the Deputy is detailed in the tabular statement.

Year	Disability Allowance	Disability Allowance	Invalidity Pension	Invalidity Pension	Illness Benefit	Illness Benefit
-	Recipients	Expenditure €000	Recipients	Expenditure €000	Recipients	Expenditure €000
1994	-	-	40,226	217,335	41,869	210,029
1995	-	60,947	42,092	224,052	41,830	212,651
1996	37,054	157,533	43,046	241,034	42,460	212,596
1997	43,192	192,822	43,633	253,023	43,500	228,439
1998	47,126	219,550	44,925	264,259	43,766	241,437
1999	50,431	245,160	46,946	279,576	45,535	262,702
2000	54,303	279,176	48,663	311,511	46,940	280,828
2001	57,655	332,308	50,615	354,459	50,715	329,897
2002	62,783	407,585	52,147	403,617	54,590	385,297
2003	67,720	463,608	53,414	440,263	57,464	433,455
2004	72,976	544,489	55,864	487,375	58,726	479,611
2005	79,253	630,728	58,352	548,285	61,845	540,245
2006	83,697	738,431	51,954	602,414	65,774	627,642
2007	89,048	901,131	53,956	618,133	70,404	755,077
2008	95,754	1,052,660	53,725	685,717	73,609	852,305
2009	99,576	1,142,769	52,922	681,642	77,665	919,783
2010	101,111	1,109,505	50,766	639,994	81,253	942,571
2011	102,866	1,089,178	49,792	606,502	73,397	875,549
2012	101,784	1,087,513	50,053	604,024	64,429	773,959
2013	106,279	1,140,916	53,196	707,769	58,990	648,938
May 2014*	108,274	498,161	53,342	281,735	58,468	259,019

Disability Allowance, formally Disabled Person's Maintenance Allowance, was administered by the Health Boards up to October, 1996 and statistics for this period are not available.

* Expenditure for the year to date in 2014 is estimated