Written answers
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Department of Social Protection
Carer's Allowance Data
Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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318. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications his Department has received under the carer's allowance scheme in each of the years 2015 to 2016 to date; the number of these it has approved and refused; and the number that are pending. [19727/16]
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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My department received applications for the carer’s allowance scheme as follows:
Year | Received | Allowed | Disallowed |
---|---|---|---|
2015 | 18,929 | 14,378 | 9,808 |
2016* | 9,130 | 6,030 | 4,005 |
At the end on May 2016 there were 6,398 pending applications.
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