Thomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of child benefit who are also in receipt of a social welfare payment, including family income supplement, and the percentage that they compose of the child benefit budget. [40245/12]

Thomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of the child benefit budget allocated to those who are not recipients of social welfare payments, including family income supplement. [40246/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

I propose to take Questions Nos. 209 and 210 together.

The information requested by the Deputy is not routinely collated by my Department. However, I am informed that on the 31st of December 2011, there were 597,333 families in receipt of child benefit. There 263,515 families in receipt of qualified child increases across the various social welfare schemes administered by the Department of Social Protection on that date and 28,876 families in receipt of Family Income Supplement on that date.

These data show that approximately 51% of families who receive Child Benefit are not in receipt of a social welfare payment.