Written answers

Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Department of Social and Family Affairs

Social Welfare Benefits

12:00 pm

Photo of Catherine ByrneCatherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 286: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of money paid out in rent supplement from January to December 2009; the percentage of single persons and the percentage of married persons of those paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16533/10]

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Expenditure on the rent supplement scheme in 2009 was €511m. I have set out below a tabular statement of rent supplement recipients by marital status.

TABULAR STATEMENT

Rent Supplement Recipients by Marital Status at the end of 2009

Coded as:Recipients%
Single54,67858.80%
Married19,62021.10%
Separated5,3115.70%
Common Law/Cohabiting5,1035.50%
Divorced3,6233.90%
Deserted2,5172.70%
Widowed1,4261.50%
Unknown4990.50%
Legally Separated2460.30%
Unmarried50.00%
Never Married20.00%
TOTAL93,030100.00%

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