Written answers
Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Social Welfare Benefits
Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of family income supplement and working family payment in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022. [45943/22]
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly tax-free payment for employees with children. It supports people who are on low pay. To qualify for WFP, a claimant must have at least one child who normally lives with them and who they support financially. The child must be under 18 (or between 18 and 22 if they are in full-time day education). WFP was formerly known as Family Income Supplement.
As of August 2022 there were 48,466 recipients of WFP. The table beneath outlines the number of recipients of WFP as of 31st December each year from 2016 to 2021.
Table: recipients of WFP at 31 December
Year | Recipients |
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2016 | 57,567 |
2017 | 57,745 |
2018 | 54,116 |
2019 | 53,104 |
2020 | 48,188 |
2021 | 45,365 |
Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total amount spent on the family income supplement and working family payment in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022. [45944/22]
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The table below shows the expenditure on Family Income Supplement/Working Family Payment for the years 2016 - 2021 and year to date (end-August) 2022:
Year | €000 |
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2016 | 415,437 |
2017 | 414,630 |
2018 | 410,546 |
2019 | 397,204 |
2020 | 377,312 |
2021 | 338,407 |
2022* | 220,900 |
*2022 expenditure is up to end August 2022 and is provisional.
I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.
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