Written answers
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Social Welfare Benefits
10:30 am
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 266: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average processing times for each application for one of the principal social welfare payments and the way these compare with targets. [34372/10]
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following tabular statement.
It represents awarded processing times measured against performance targets for the principal social protection payments during the month of August 2010.
| Processing Times August 2010 | ||
| Performance Target | Award Performance Achieved | |
| Jobseeker's Benefit | 90% in 3 Weeks | 73% |
| Jobseeker's Allowance | 90% in 6 Weeks | 69% |
| One-Parent Family Payment SWLO | 90% in 10 Weeks | 45% |
| State Pension Contributory Domestic | 90% by date of entitlement | 85% |
| State Pension Transition Domestic | 90% in 6 weeks | 72% |
| Widow(er)'s Contributory Pension | 90% in 6 Weeks | 87% |
| State Pension (Non-Contributory) | 90% in 10 Weeks | 72% |
| Widow(er)'s Non-Contributory Pension | 90% in 10 Weeks | 46% |
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