Written answers
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Social Welfare Benefits
12:00 pm
Charlie O'Connor (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 354: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount paid out by the State in 2009 on rent supplements. [10121/10]
Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term support, to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source.
As at December 2009, 92,300 people were in receipt of rent supplement. The total paid out by the State in 2009 on rent supplement, for year ending December 2009, was â¬511m.
Charlie O'Connor (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 355: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount provided by the State in 2009 in respect of lone parents payments. [10122/10]
Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The expenditure on lone parents schemes administered by the Department for 2009 was as follows:
| 2009 Provisional Outturn |
| Funding source | Scheme | â¬000 |
| Vote 38 | One Parent Family Payment | 1,117,840 |
| Deserted Wives Allowance | 5,978 | |
| Social Insurance Fund | Deserted Wives Benefit | 100,494 |
The figures shown are provisional pending completion of audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General.
Other supports available to lone parents include rent supplement, family income supplement, fuel allowance and reduced rate on illness benefit, jobseeker's benefit or occupational injuries benefit.
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