Written answers
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Social Welfare Benefits
9:00 pm
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 348: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will provide a breakdown of the current recipients of rent supplement by work status and those on welfare by principal welfare payment. [40557/09]
Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The following table shows the number of recipients of rent supplement by primary social welfare payment. A breakdown of recipients by work status is not available.
TABLE
Number of Recipients of Rent Supplement by Primary Payment at 29 October 2009.
| Payment Type | Recipients | As % of Total |
| State Pensions | 1,566 | 1.7% |
| Pre-Retirement Allowance | 112 | 0.1% |
| Widows and Widower's Pensions | 414 | 0.5% |
| One-Parent Family Payment | 16,001 | 17.5% |
| Invalidity Pension | 1,052 | 1.1% |
| Illness Benefit | 2,636 | 2.9% |
| Disability Allowance | 9,902 | 10.8% |
| Long-Term Jobseekers Allowance | 15,525 | 16.9% |
| Short-Term Jobseekers Allowance | 10,396 | 11.3% |
| Jobseekers Benefit | 11,084 | 12.1% |
| Supplementary Welfare Allowance | 13,459 | 14.7% |
| Employment Support Services * | 3,370 | 3.7% |
| DSS (UK) | 359 | 0.4% |
| Other | 5,758 | 6.3% |
| Total | 91,634 | 100.0% |
* Includes Back to Work Allowance, Community Employment, Back to Education Allowance, VTOS and FAS
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