Working Family Payment

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 November 2020

Tuesday, 3 November 2020

Questions (882)

Gary Gannon

Question:

882. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of lone parent households and two parent family households availing of the working family payment over the past 18-month period in tabular form. [32875/20]

Written answers

Minister for Social Protection

The information requested by the Deputy is reported annually in my Department's Statistical Information on Social Welfare Services report which is published on https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/02f594-annual-sws-statistical-information-report/.

The most up to date information available is set out in the following tabular statement.

Tabular statement

The number of lone parent households and two parent family households availing of the working family payment at 25 December 2019 and 28 October 2020

	25 December 2019	28 October 2020
1 Parent	26,240	24,475
2 Parent	26,864	23,587