The information requested by the Deputy in respect of the number of parents in receipt of the One Parent Family and Family Income Supplement payment concurrently each year from 2007 to 2010 is not readily available in my Department. However, the information requested for the years 2011 to 2015 is set out in the following tabular statement.
Concurrent recipients of the One Parent Family Payment (OFP) and Family Income Supplement (FIS) payment 2011 to 2015
Year
|
Recipients of FIS
|
Percentage of FIS recipients in receipt of OFP concurrently
|
December 2011
|
28,876
|
26.4%
|
December 2012
|
32,307
|
25.7%
|
December 2013
|
44,159
|
23.2%
|
December 2014
|
50,306
|
20.8%
|
May 2015
|
51,372
|
21.6%
|