Claire Kerrane
Question:813. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the earnings disregard for one parent family payment to €175. [20010/20]
View answerThursday, 30 July 2020
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The estimated full year cost of increasing the earnings disregard for the One Parent Family Payment to €175 per week is €4.6 million.
The above costing is based on the number of recipients who were working and earning in excess of €175 per week as of May 2019.
The costings do not take into account potential behavioural changes, or the inflow of new entrants, which may arise from the introduction of higher income disregards.
There would be additional costs on foot of these two factors, which are not possible to calculate and have not been factored into the above costing.