Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of families whose one-parent family payment was discontinued from July 2015, and who transferred to other social welfare benefits; and if she will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown, by county. [30541/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The latest data collated by the Department on the numbers of customers who transitioned out of the one-parent family payment (OFP) as a result of the reform on 2 July, 2015, show that some 25,500 customers transitioned out of the scheme on that day. Of those customers approximately:

- 13,700 moved to the jobseeker’s transitional payment;

- 2,500 moved to the jobseeker’s allowance (JA) scheme, and

- 8,100 moved to the family income supplement (FIS) scheme.

The remainder of customers transitioned to a broad range of other income support payments such as the jobseeker’s benefit (JB), the disability allowance (DA), illness benefit (IB), as well as to various back-to-work schemes.

A tabular breakdown of these figures by County is presently not available in the Department.