Written answers

Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

Social Welfare Schemes

Photo of Pat BuckleyPat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of households with at least one child under the age of 18 that are in receipt of a social welfare payment other than child benefit in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [33363/21]

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below. Data for 2021 refers to the first quarter of the year.  The data reflects the most recent household composition known to the Department.  The increase observed in 2020 relates primarily to new recipients of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment.

Year Households 
2016 307,066 
2017 309,826 
2018 289,798 
2019 300,442 
2020 369,056 
Q1 2020 295,679 

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