Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of carers in each county receiving a lump sum payment of €400 the week of 27 November 2023, in tabular form. [53175/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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This week, my Department will issue a once-off Carer's Support Grant payment of €400 to the country's carers. If a person received the €400 payment to people getting Disability Allowance, Invalidity Pension or Blind Pension, then they are not eligible for the once-off Carer's Support Grant payment.

Based on current recipient numbers, this payment will be made to 120,019 people. This figure is an estimate and may change as new applications are received and claims are closed.

The breakdown by county of this estimated number of recipients for whom this once-off payment is being made is shown in Table 1 below.

Table 1: Estimated number of recipients of the once-off Carer's Support Grant payment, by county.

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number people in receipt of the living alone allowance in each county receiving a €200 lump sum payment the week of 27 November 2023, in tabular form. [53176/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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This week, my Department will issue a once-off Cost of Living Lump Sum payment of €200 to people in receipt of Living Alone Allowance.

Based on current recipient numbers, this payment will be made to 240,989 people. This figure is an estimate and may change as new applications are received and claims are closed.

The breakdown by county of this estimated number of recipients for whom this once-off payment is being made is shown in Table 1 below.

Table 1: Estimated number of recipients of the Cost of Living Lump Sum payment for those in receipt of Living Alone Allowance, by county.

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children in each county that will qualify for the lump sum of €100 to be during the week of 27 November 2023, in tabular form. [53177/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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This week, my Department will issue a once-off Cost of Living Lump Sum payment of €100 to people getting an Increase for a Qualified Child.

I am informed by officials in my Department that it will require more time to compile the number of children on the Illness Benefit scheme that this payment will be made in respect of. However, based on current recipient numbers of all other schemes, this payment will be made in respect of 329,521 children. This figure is an estimate and may change as new applications are received and claims are closed.

The breakdown by county of this estimated number of children for whom this once-off payment is being made is shown in Table 1 below. The county breakdown refers to the address of the customer receiving the payment rather than the address of the Qualified Child.

Table 1: Estimated number of qualified children for which the Cost of Living Lump Sum payment is being made, by county