Written answers
Wednesday, 23 September 2020
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Social Welfare Rates
Richard 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]
Heather 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 |
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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