Written answers
Tuesday, 15 June 2021
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Social Welfare Benefits
Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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865. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of social welfare payments for April, May and June and to date in 2021; and the number in receipt of each social welfare payment in tabular form. [30858/21]
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table. Due to the large number of schemes administered by my Department, a number of operational systems are in place. As a result, for the majority of schemes, recipient numbers for June 2021 will not be available until the end of the month. To the week ending 13th June 2020, 312,028 people have received Pandemic Unemployment Payments,132,192 have received Jobseeker's Allowance Payments, and 33,062 have received Jobseeker's Benefit Payments.
The table outlines the recipient numbers for main schemes for April and May 2021:
| Payment | Apr-21 | May-21 |
|---|---|---|
| State Pension (Non-Contributory) | 95,117 | 95,144 |
| State Pension (Contributory) | 453,954 | 455,709 |
| Widow/er's or Surviving Civil Partner's Contributory Pension | 123,422 | 123,498 |
| Jobseeker's Allowance | 138,419 | 136,029 |
| One Parent Family Payment | 39,106 | 39,171 |
| Supplementary Welfare Allowance | 10,116 | 9,938 |
| Direct Provision Allowance | 3,420 | 3,424 |
| Farm Assist | 5,291 | 5,238 |
| Jobseeker's Benefit | 30,212 | 28,491 |
| Maternity Benefit | 19,279 | 19,532 |
| Adoptive Benefit | 6 | 5 |
| Health and Safety Benefit | 36 | 44 |
| Paternity Benefit | 627 | 609 |
| Community Employment Programme | 19,371 | 19,398 |
| Rural Social Scheme | 3,014 | 3,001 |
| TUS - Community Work Placement | 3,976 | 4,089 |
| Job Initiative | 530 | 524 |
| Back To Work Enterprise Allowance | 2,422 | 2,358 |
| Back To Education Allowance | 5,866 | 5,356 |
| Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme | 207 | 224 |
| Part Time JISE | 384 | 478 |
| Partial Capacity Benefit | 3,168 | 3,202 |
| Disability Allowance | 153,805 | 153,619 |
| Carer's Allowance | 89,549 | 89,523 |
| Illness Benefit | 47,178 | 47,370 |
| Injury Benefit | 797 | 802 |
| Invalidity Pension | 59,040 | 58,922 |
| Disablement Benefit | 14,712 | 14,727 |
| Incapacity Supplement | 781 | 783 |
| Carer's Benefit | 3,427 | 3,646 |
| Working Family Payment | 45,899 | 45,816 |
| Rent Allowance | 47 | 47 |
| Child Benefit - Families | 637,260 | 637,718 |
| Child Benefit - Children | 1,212,099 | 1,211,459 |
| Domiciliary Care Allowance - Families | 44,721 | 44,887 |
| Domiciliary Care Allowance - Children | 49,680 | 49,922 |
| Back to Work Family Dividend | 2,951 | 2,922 |
| JobsPlus Employees | 598 | 570 |
| Over 65s Payment | 2,652 | 2,867 |
| Recipients of Household Benefits | 469,169 | 470,117 |
| Free Travel | 995,983 | 988,862 |
| Rent Supplement | 18,633 | 17,673 |
| Blind Pension | 1,056 | 1,049 |
| Death Benefit | 726 | 725 |
| Guardian's Payment (Contributory) | 1,186 | 1,197 |
| Guardian's Payment (Non Contributory) | 571 | 571 |
| Pandemic Unemployment Payment | 385,217 | 309,515 |
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