Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael)
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224. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of working-age claimants who receive more than €256, €292, €329 and €365 every week in total welfare support payments. [20471/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The information requested by the Deputy is not available in my Department.

However I am informed during the week ended 22 May there were a total of 65,095 payments made to weekly recipients of back to work allowance, one-parent family payment, jobseeker’s allowance and jobseeker’s benefit which exceeded €256. These payments were made to the recipients solely in respect of their entitlements, which may include increases in respect of a qualified adult allowance and qualified child increases, under the relevant scheme and exclude any other entitlement to a social welfare payment such as child benefit.

A breakdown of these recipients by scheme and payment band is detailed in the attached tabular statement.