John Brady
Question:2812. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of households in receipt of a qualified child payment by county in tabular form. [33697/19]
View answerTuesday, 23 July 2019
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At the end of June, over 630,000 families with 1.2 million children benefited from Child Benefit. Nearly 120,000 children in over 52,000 families were supported by Working Family Payment and 45,000 children in nearly 41,000 families were supported by Domiciliary Care Allowance.
Moreover, additional payments for qualifying children were made to 340,000 recipients of other social welfare payments.
These figures are detailed by social welfare payment in the table below. I am advised that a breakdown by county of these figures is not readily available.
I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.
Table 1 - Recipients of social welfare payments, with numbers of child beneficiaries, at the end of June 2019
|
Type of Payment |
Recipients |
Child beneficiaries |
|
Child Benefit |
631,779 |
1,209,065 |
|
Working Family Payment |
52,775 |
118,998 |
|
Domiciliary Care Allowance |
40,952 |
45,106 |
|
Back to Work Family Dividend |
6,617 |
12,734 |
|
State Pension (Contributory) |
419,453 |
1,867 |
|
Widow/er's or Surviving Civil Partner's Contributory Pension |
122,329 |
11,140 |
|
Jobseeker's Allowance |
146,882 |
99,589 |
|
One Parent Family Payment |
39,570 |
73,026 |
|
Supplementary Welfare Allowance (2) |
15,874 |
7,363 |
|
Direct Provision Allowance |
3,931 |
932 |
|
Farm Assist |
6,132 |
4,730 |
|
Jobseeker's Benefit |
32,374 |
6,223 |
|
Deserted Wife's Benefit |
0 |
|
|
Maternity Benefit |
19,507 |
1,129 |
|
Adoptive Benefit |
5 |
0 |
|
Health and Safety Benefit |
33 |
7 |
|
Paternity Benefit |
650 |
104 |
|
Community Employment Programme |
21,367 |
8,291 |
|
Back To Work Enterprise Allowance |
5,038 |
4,218 |
|
Back To Education Allowance(3) |
830 |
654 |
|
Partial Capacity Benefit |
2,712 |
43 |
|
Total Number of Recipients of Working Age on Employment Supports |
30,823 |
13,206 |
|
Disability Allowance |
143,154 |
44,259 |
|
Carer's Allowance |
81,941 |
50,387 |
|
Illness Benefit |
48,487 |
10,156 |
|
Injury Benefit |
1,099 |
154 |
|
Invalidity Pension |
57,987 |
13,201 |
|
Disablement Benefit |
15,086 |
133 |
|
Carer's Benefit |
2,699 |
0 |