Written answers

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Department of Social and Family Affairs

Social Welfare Benefits

8:00 pm

Photo of Michael RingMichael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 281: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of person's claiming part-time jobseeker's benefit and allowance in tabular form; to provide a breakdown of the duration of same on a per annum basis; to provide the cost for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35413/10]

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The number of persons in payment at w/e 1/10/2010 with a category denoting some form of work is as follows:

Jobseekers BenefitJobseekers AllowancePTJI
Casual / Part-time45,95627,750n/a
Systematic Short Time11,995n/an/a
Week on / Week off857n/an/a
Self employed1728,883n/a
Part Time Job Incentive(Aug 2010)n/an/a158

It is not feasible to provide an accurate breakdown of the duration of each claim as requested by the Deputy. To do so would involve accessing each record individually. Also the categories in the table are not accounted for separately for expenditure purposes as they are merely sub-categories of Jobseekers Allowance or Jobseekers Benefit schemes.

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