Written answers

Wednesday, 23 September 2020

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

Social Welfare Rates

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to increase social welfare payments to 2009 levels. [25840/20]

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The following tables set out the cost of increasing the individual social welfare payment rates to 2009 levels where the current rate is below 2009 rate:

Scheme Full year cost of restoring rates to 2009 levels
Social Insurance Schemes €m
Widow/er's or Surviving Civil Partner's (Con) Pension 1.97
Deserted Wife's Benefit 0.17
Invalidity Pension 4.22
Partial Capacity Benefit 0.14
Disablement Pension 0.39
Illness Benefit 3.3
Injury Benefit 0.06
Incapacity Supplement 0.06
Jobseeker's Benefit 3.53
Carer's Benefit 0.18
Health and Safety Benefit 0
Maternity & Adoptive Benefit (Based on old max rate) 37.95
Paternity Benefit (Based on old Maternity Benefit max rate) 5.15
Total Social Insurance Schemes 57.12
Scheme Full year cost of restoring rates to 2009 levels
Social Assistance Schemes €m
Blind Pension 0.08
Widow/ers or Surviving Civil Partner's (Non-Con) Pension 0.09
Deserted Wife's Allowance 0.01
One-Parent Family Payment 2.66
Carer's Allowance 3.52
Half Rate Carer's Allowance 0.95
Jobseeker's Allowance 17.81
Jobseeker's Allowance - for those aged 18 to 24 years of age 122.04
Disability Allowance 10.67
Farm Assist 0.47
Back to Education Allowance 0.33
Back to Work Enterprise Allowance 0.24
Community Employment 0.22
TÚS 0.05
Rural Social Scheme 0.06
Supplementary Welfare Allowance 2.96
Total Social Assistance Schemes 162.16
Overall Total 219.28
The costs shown above are on a full year basis and are based on the estimated number of recipients in 2020, with the exception of Jobseeker's Allowance and Jobseeker's Benefit, which are based on the estimated number of recipients for 2021. It should be noted that these costings are subject to change in the context of emerging trends and associated revision of the estimated numbers of recipients for 2021.

It should also be noted that these costings include proportionate increases for qualified adults and for those on reduced rates of payment, where relevant.

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