Written answers

Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

Social Welfare Benefits

Photo of Pauline TullyPauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children in receipt of domiciliary care allowance in 2020, 2022 and 2023; the number of children who transferred from domiciliary care allowance to disability allowance once they turned 16 in 2020, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [39220/24]

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The number of children on Domiciliary Care Allowance in December 2020, December 2022 and August 2023, and the number of those who were on Disability Allowance 12 months later is shown in the table below.

Domiciliary Care Allowance children Domiciliary Care Allowance children on Disability allowance 12 months later
December 2020 48,980 1,898
December 2022 56,045 2,158
August 2023 58,968 2,707

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