Written answers

Tuesday, 20 September 2022

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

Social Welfare Benefits

Photo of Maurice QuinlivanMaurice 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]

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather 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
2016 57,567
2017 57,745
2018 54,116
2019 53,104
2020 48,188
2021 45,365

Photo of Maurice QuinlivanMaurice 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]

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather 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
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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