Written answers
Thursday, 22 September 2022
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Social Welfare Payments
Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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283. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of welfare payments in the Dublin 7 area; and if she will provide a breakdown of the schemes from which each of them are receiving payments. [46491/22]
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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My Department does not provide the information requested by the Deputy. Instead, the number of individuals in the entire county Dublin that received at least one payment in various social welfare schemes in Q2 2022 is shown in Table 1 below.
Table 1: The number of recipients of social welfare payments in Dublin in Q2 2022.
| Scheme | Recipients |
|---|---|
| Back to Work Scheme Family Dividend | 775 |
| Carer's Allowance | 19,905 |
| Carer's Benefit | 706 |
| Child Benefit | 174,511 |
| Disability Allowance | 37,673 |
| Household Benefits | 20,153 |
| Household Benefits | 44,152 |
| Illness Benefit | 41,067 |
| Invalidity Pension | 13,180 |
| Jobseeker's Allowance | 42,070 |
| Jobseeker's Benefit | 23,645 |
| Maternity Benefit | 8,126 |
| One Parent Family Payment | 14,560 |
| Parents Benefit | 4,847 |
| Paternity Benefit | 1,794 |
| Rent Supplement | 5,834 |
| State Pension Contributory | 117,438 |
| State Pension Non Contributory | 15,670 |
| Widow(er)'s Contributory Pension | 30,939 |
| Widows Non Contributory Pension | 279 |
| Working Family Payment | 12,282 |
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