Written answers
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Social Welfare Benefits
12:00 pm
Catherine 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]
Éamon 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 | % |
Single | 54,678 | 58.80% |
Married | 19,620 | 21.10% |
Separated | 5,311 | 5.70% |
Common Law/Cohabiting | 5,103 | 5.50% |
Divorced | 3,623 | 3.90% |
Deserted | 2,517 | 2.70% |
Widowed | 1,426 | 1.50% |
Unknown | 499 | 0.50% |
Legally Separated | 246 | 0.30% |
Unmarried | 5 | 0.00% |
Never Married | 2 | 0.00% |
TOTAL | 93,030 | 100.00% |
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