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- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Apr 2024)
Robert Troy: 7. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider abolishing the punitive means test for the carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18203/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Apr 2024)
Heather Humphreys: The Carer’s Allowance scheme is the main scheme by which the Department provides income support to carers in the community. In 2024 the expenditure on the Carer’s Allowance scheme is estimated to be over €1.1 billion. Means tests are an essential components of our social welfare system - they help to direct scarce reroutes to where they are needed most. In the absence...