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Tuesday, 15 July 2014

Department of Social Protection

Social Welfare Benefits Data

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Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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418. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications received and approved for dental benefit in each of the past five years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31638/14]

Photo of Joan BurtonJoan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The numbers of Dental Benefit claims received and paid over the past five years were as follows:

YearRecdPaid
2009833,844733,234
2010339,595388,938
2011346,480272,865
2012292,147270,602
2013324,134298,658
The apparent discrepancy in the number of customers qualifying and having claims paid in 2010 is as a result of a surge in applications in the last weeks of 2009, following changes to the scheme announced in the budget, which were then processed in early 2010.

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