Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 13 January 2016
57. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of new claims she has approved and the percentages for the number of refusals based on financial grounds under the disability allowance scheme in each year since 2011 to date. [46560/15]
View answerThe Department does not maintain statistics, broken down by reason(s), in relation to disallowances of disability allowance (DA) applications.
The following table relates to the total number of disability allowance decisions that were awarded and disallowed for each year from 2011 to 2015.
|
Year |
Awarded * |
Disallowed |
|
2011 |
9246 |
14116 |
|
2012 |
10400 |
14519 |
|
2013 |
12497 |
14691 |
|
2014 |
13876 |
12621 |
|
2015 |
15814 |
14800 |
(*)Please note that the statistics in relation to awarded cases include cases also recorded in the disallowed category which were initially disallowed but subsequently awarded following a review by a deciding officer or a successful appeal.
