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Tuesday, 25 January 2022

Questions (405)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

Question:

405. Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of social welfare payments by payment type and county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2924/22]

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Minister for Social Protection

Detailed information on scheme recipients, including recipients by county, are published each year by my Department in the Annual Statistical Report on Social Welfare Services, which is available at gov.ie/dsp/statistics. The Annual Statistical Report on Social Welfare Services in respect of 2021 is expected to be published in quarter 2 of this year.

The archive on gov.ie contains reports from 1998 through to the latest available report, which is 2020. Quarterly data by county, covering Q1 2014 through to Q3 2021, is also available, and is published on a quarterly basis through the national open data portal, data.gov.ie.

The data requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below and refers to recipients in December 2021. The Deputy should note that Jobseeker's Allowance figures are inclusive of Jobseeker's Transitional Payment figures.

Scheme	Carlow	Cavan	Clare	Cork	Donegal
State Pension (Non-Contributory)	1,245	2,182	3,119	9,642	7,131
State Pension (Contributory)	5,319	6,293	11,180	49,820	12,786
Widow/er's or Surviving Civil Partner's Contributory Pension	1,584	1,780	2,999	13,814	3,628
Jobseeker's Allowance	2,310	2,226	2,888	9,602	6,262
JA - Jobseeker's Transition*	261	222	291	1,542	480
One Parent Family Payment	654	453	705	3,762	1,169
Supplementary Welfare Allowance	205	87	109	919	230
Farm Assist	37	178	215	346	907
Jobseeker's Benefit	435	413	915	3,030	1,029
Jobseeker's Benefit Self Employed	4	0 to 3	21	36	13
Maternity Benefit	256	328	522	2,562	632
Paternity Benefit	4	0 to 3	12	58	9
Community Employment Programme	339	314	392	1,658	1,043
Rural Social Scheme	24	91	135	172	292
TUS - Community Work Placement	97	103	115	435	334
Job Initiative	8	13	21	23	19
Back To Work Enterprise Allowance	29	55	81	158	156
Back To Education Allowance	136	85	115	490	243
Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme	0 to 3	0 to 3	6	14	9
Part Time JISE	19	15	43	142	56
Partial Capacity Benefit	47	46	85	466	106
Disability Allowance	2,542	2,248	3,689	18,810	6,148
Carer's Allowance	1,589	1,486	2,210	10,023	4,327
Illness Benefit	1,002	976	1,196	7,230	2,004
Injury Benefit	18	24	27	137	32
Invalidity Pension	1,050	840	1,269	7,685	1,627
Disablement Benefit	246	216	361	2,044	417
Incapacity Supplement	13	13	20	98	31
Carer's Benefit	29	60	81	440	144
Domicilliary Care Allowance	727	686	1,015	6,399	1,382
Working Family Payment	781	984	929	4,574	2,378
Child Benefit Families	8,711	10,214	14,342	70,258	19,835
Child Benefit Children	16,479	20,453	28,008	134,408	39,566

Scheme	Dublin	Galway	Kerry	Kildare	Kilkenny
State Pension (Non-Contributory)	15,288	7,054	4,720	2,402	1,949
State Pension (Contributory)	115,081	21,107	14,317	17,360	8,584
Widow/er's or Surviving Civil Partner's Contributory Pension	30,499	5,825	3,955	4,796	2,253
Jobseeker's Allowance	31,803	5,998	4,835	4,359	1,863
JA - Jobseeker's Transition*	5,597	615	511	725	220
One Parent Family Payment	13,787	1,346	1,097	1,504	506
Supplementary Welfare Allowance	3,935	226	249	345	271
Farm Assist	16	457	422	17	53
Jobseeker's Benefit	8,303	1,494	2,073	1,347	458
Jobseeker's Benefit Self Employed	90	12	8	21	6
Maternity Benefit	6,056	1,197	600	1,140	405
Paternity Benefit	93	13	12	14	6
Community Employment Programme	3,903	1,187	961	686	414
Rural Social Scheme	0 to 3	379	248	26	19
TUS - Community Work Placement	872	339	95	143	103
Job Initiative	240	19	0 to 3	7	0 to 3
Back To Work Enterprise Allowance	391	95	110	43	95
Back To Education Allowance	1,229	325	200	160	103
Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme	51	60	4	6	5
Part Time JISE	396	58	55	52	21
Partial Capacity Benefit	707	166	115	150	58
Disability Allowance	36,859	8,501	5,778	5,773	2,944
Carer's Allowance	19,279	4,734	3,286	3,368	1,703
Illness Benefit	14,522	3,004	1,586	2,736	1,065
Injury Benefit	272	58	29	65	32
Invalidity Pension	12,942	2,270	1,699	2,567	1,050
Disablement Benefit	3,037	683	438	576	268
Incapacity Supplement	151	50	25	32	12
Carer's Benefit	606	223	134	148	64
Domiciliary Care Allowance	11,388	2,123	1,395	2,128	816
Working Family Payment	11,033	2,097	1,310	1,999	740
Child Benefit Families	169,116	32,324	17,541	33,531	11,491
Child Benefit Children	307,712	63,337	33,480	63,037	22,439

Scheme	Laois	Leitrim	Limerick	Longford	Louth
State Pension (Non-Contributory)	1,505	1,121	3,934	1,260	2,551
State Pension (Contributory)	5,697	3,284	18,888	3,829	11,731
Widow/er's or Surviving Civil Partner's Contributory Pension	1,745	1,022	5,243	1,081	3,166
Jobseeker's Allowance	2,397	1,083	5,081	1,775	5,597
JA - Jobseeker's Transition*	277	103	622	152	758
One Parent Family Payment	740	150	1,940	471	1,801
Supplementary Welfare Allowance	101	51	343	94	404
Farm Assist	41	201	89	103	48
Jobseeker's Benefit	528	221	1,286	243	1,086
Jobseeker's Benefit Self Employed	10	0 to 3	18	0 to 3	10
Maternity Benefit	393	159	788	191	616
Paternity Benefit	4	0 to 3	14	0 to 3	11
Community Employment Programme	272	189	1,088	290	666
Rural Social Scheme	21	118	87	57	12
TUS - Community Work Placement	100	78	122	98	166
Job Initiative	0 to 3	4	46	0 to 3	28
Back To Work Enterprise Allowance	50	35	36	52	94
Back To Education Allowance	50	36	288	39	264
Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme	4	0 to 3	0 to 3	0 to 3	5
Part Time JISE	12	13	51	6	40
Partial Capacity Benefit	64	25	149	42	96
Disability Allowance	2,818	1,166	8,180	1,870	4,533
Carer's Allowance	1,744	771	5,007	1,196	2,848
Illness Benefit	972	400	2,759	496	2,215
Injury Benefit	27	5	45	8	39
Invalidity Pension	982	491	3,417	623	1,797
Disablement Benefit	231	142	1,025	173	510
Incapacity Supplement	15	5	46	10	23
Carer's Benefit	69	40	157	23	118
Domiciliary Care Allowance	1,006	265	2,448	448	1,372
Working Family Payment	890	301	2,004	670	1,859
Child Benefit Families	11,347	4,085	25,383	5,790	19,540
Child Benefit Children	22,239	8,225	48,528	11,525	36,917

Scheme	Mayo	Meath	Monaghan	Offaly	Roscommon
State Pension (Non-Contributory)	5,260	2,684	1,767	1,539	2,002
State Pension (Contributory)	12,697	14,991	5,362	6,575	6,121
Widow/er's or Surviving Civil Partner's Contributory Pension	3,668	4,166	1,561	1,982	1,747
Jobseeker's Allowance	4,174	2,801	1,574	2,367	1,365
JA - Jobseeker's Transition*	441	360	188	259	110
One Parent Family Payment	838	869	420	677	265
Supplementary Welfare Allowance	134	441	110	193	161
Farm Assist	799	36	239	47	169
Jobseeker's Benefit	845	742	395	574	304
Jobseeker's Benefit Self Employed	6	4	0 to 3	0 to 3	0 to 3
Maternity Benefit	543	1,012	350	331	248
Paternity Benefit	5	20	7	0 to 3	5
Community Employment Programme	634	408	364	414	264
Rural Social Scheme	607	24	64	53	163
TUS - Community Work Placement	303	273	89	102	104
Job Initiative	7	0 to 3	15	9	0 to 3
Back To Work Enterprise Allowance	115	84	34	53	59
Back To Education Allowance	136	90	63	90	47
Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme	10	0 to 3	5	7	0 to 3
Part Time JISE	44	26	7	27	17
Partial Capacity Benefit	104	155	37	52	58
Disability Allowance	4,468	4,415	1,726	3,086	2,238
Carer's Allowance	2,976	2,747	1,133	2,187	1,517
Illness Benefit	1,605	2,472	652	1,129	683
Injury Benefit	22	41	12	21	15
Invalidity Pension	1,389	1,969	619	1,186	843
Disablement Benefit	380	610	168	281	278
Incapacity Supplement	30	32	6	21	10
Carer's Benefit	127	132	34	58	80
Domiciliary Care Allowance	1,008	1,908	500	1,024	626
Working Family Payment	1,250	1,747	875	820	627
Child Benefit Families	15,612	29,677	8,060	10,189	7,827
Child Benefit Children	31,001	56,908	16,582	19,709	15,756

Scheme	Sligo	Tipperary	Waterford	Westmeath
State Pension (Non-Contributory)	1,739	4,147	2,598	1,715
State Pension (Contributory)	6,696	15,781	11,552	8,029
Widow/er's or Surviving Civil Partner's Contributory Pension	1,859	4,622	3,276	2,367
Jobseeker's Allowance	1,736	4,828	4,538	2,890
JA - Jobseeker's Transition*	191	608	548	336
One Parent Family Payment	464	1,480	1,349