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Social Welfare Schemes

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 21 May 2024

Tuesday, 21 May 2024

Ceisteanna (397)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Ceist:

397. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection the current number of recipients for each social welfare scheme. [22796/24]

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The data requested by the Deputy on the number of recipients end April 2024 is shown in the following table.

Scheme

Number of recipients

Accommodation Recognition Claim

10,770

Adoptive Parent Benefit

10

Back to Education Allowance

2,999

Back to Work Enterprise Allowance

1,887

Back to Work Scheme Family Dividend

2,107

Benefit Payment for 65 Year Olds

4,110

Blind Pension

961

Carer's Allowance

96,597

Carer's Benefit

3,987

Child Benefit

671,931

Daily Expenses Allowance

17,567

Dental Benefit

88,653

Deserted Wife's Allowance

34

Deserted Wife's Benefit

4,151

Diet Supplement

1,004

Disability Allowance

163,874

Disablement Benefit

14,313

Domiciliary Care Scheme

54,973

Farm Assist

3,800

Free Travel

1,099,580

Fuel Allowance

395,990

Guardians Payment (Contributory)

1,289

Guardians Payment (Non-Contributory)

623

Health And Safety Benefit

29

Heat Supplement

861

Household Benefits Package

525,844

Illness Benefit

52,524

Incapacity Supplement

702

Invalidity Pension

56,945

Jobseeker's Allowance

114,054

Jobseeker's Benefit

31,221

Jobseeker's Benefit for the Self Employed

718

Jobseeker's Transitional Payment

20,276

JobsPlus

606

Magdalen Payment

372

Maternity Benefit

18,612

Medical & Surgical Appliances

2,272

Medical Care

364

Mortgage Supplement

170

Occupational Injuries Benefit

666

Occupational Injuries Pension

699

One Parent Family Payment

44,147

Optical Benefit

42,617

Parents Benefit

5,276

Partial Capacity Benefit

2,852

Part-Time Job Incentive

86

Paternity Benefit

610

Rent Allowance

37

Rent Supplement

7,373

Respite Care Grant

131,721

Short Term Enterprise Allowance

229

State Pension Contributory

516,936

State Pension Non Contributory

100,084

Supplementary Welfare Allowance

12,272

Systematic Short Time Workers

665

Travel Supplement

212

Widow(er)'s Contributory Pension

125,950

Widows Non Contributory Pension

1,037

Work Placement Employment Programme

181

Working Family Payment

45,980

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