Written answers
Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Social Welfare Benefits Data
Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social protection payments made in respect of qualified adults by age cohort, gender and social protection payment. [49828/19]
Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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At present my Department is extending its statistical reporting ability to include greater information on dependent adult and child increases across the range of payments under its remit. To date the production of reports in respect of the age and sex of adult dependent has been developed in respect of 4 schemes, disability allowance, invalidity pension, state pension contributory and state pension non-contributory.
Details of the adult dependents in respect of whom an increase is in payment to recipients is detailed in the following tabular statement.
Adult dependent increases in payment by age and sex to recipients of the following schemes at the end of October 2019
Disability Allowance | Invalidity Pension | State Pension Contributory | State Pension Non Contributory | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | |
Under 20 | 39 | 2 | ||||||
20 - 24 | 254 | 88 | ||||||
25 - 29 | 547 | 190 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||
30 - 34 | 901 | 348 | 84 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 1 | |
35 - 39 | 1,205 | 604 | 210 | 44 | 26 | 1 | 18 | |
40 - 44 | 1,391 | 680 | 324 | 66 | 66 | 2 | 32 | 2 |
45 - 49 | 1,485 | 759 | 515 | 130 | 144 | 2 | 77 | 5 |
50 - 54 | 1,651 | 699 | 780 | 172 | 402 | 9 | 180 | 19 |
55 - 59 | 1,753 | 679 | 1,236 | 264 | 1,360 | 37 | 492 | 50 |
60 - 64 | 1,375 | 583 | 1,558 | 405 | 6,308 | 180 | 1,367 | 252 |
65 - 69 | 147 | 95 | 111 | 12,430 | 275 | 467 | 143 | |
70 - 75 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 15,941 | 322 | ||
75 - 79 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 12,724 | 234 | |||
80 - 84 | 7,169 | 213 | ||||||
85 - 89 | 2,272 | 112 | ||||||
90 - 94 | 359 | 37 | ||||||
95 and over | 31 | 6 | ||||||
Totals | 10,758 | 4,736 | 4,735 | 1,219 | 59,244 | 1,430 | 2,641 | 472 |
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