John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of carers who received the carer's support grant automatically in 2018; the number of applications received for the grant; and the number of grants approved and rejected, respectively, in tabular form. [15321/19]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The Carer’s Support Grant is an annual payment made by my Department to full-time carers. The due date of the grant is the 1^stThursday in June. Over 90% of all grants are paid automatically on this date to persons in receipt of Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit or Domiciliary Care Allowance. A small number of persons in receipt of Constant Attendance Allowance (108 in 2018) also receive payment of the grant. In addition, over 5,600 carers received payment of the ‘standalone’ grant in 2018.

Table 1 shows details of all grants paid in 2018. A total of 476 claims were refused/withdrawn in 2018.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Table 1: Carer’s Support Grants paid in 2018