Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid in carer’s allowance in each year since 2015; the number of carer’s allowance applications received in each year since 2015; and the number of successful applicants as a percentage of applications made in each year since 2015. [35546/20]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is reported annually in my Department's Statistical Information on Social Welfare Services report which is published on .

I have for the Deputy's convenience detailed the expenditure from 2015 to 2019, number of claims that were received, the number awarded expressed as a percentage of the claims received in respect of Carer's Allowance from 2015 to October 2020.

Tabular statement below.

Expenditure from 2015 to 2019, number of claims that were received, the number awarded expressed as a percentage of the claims received in respect of Carer's Allowance from 2015 to October 2020.