Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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325. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients that will receive the €200 living alone allowance lump sum announced in Budget 2025, by county, in tabular form. [40145/24]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The €200 living alone allowance lump sum to be implemented in November 2024 will benefit approximately 250,000 social welfare recipients. An estimated breakdown of recipients by county requested by the Deputy is shown in the attached tabular statement.

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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326. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families and the number of children that will receive two double child benefit payments announced in Budget 2025, by county, in tabular form. [40147/24]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Child Benefit is a monthly payment to the parents or guardians of children under 16 years of age. Child Benefit can also be claimed for children aged 16,17 and 18 if they are in full-time education or full-time training or have a disability and cannot support themselves.

A double Child Benefit payment will issue to all recipients on November 5th and December 3rd 2024. It is estimated that over 670,000 families will receive these double Child Benefit payments in respect of over 1.26 million children.

The estimated number of families in each county that will receive the double child benefit payment on is currently being finalised and will be made public shortly.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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327. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families and the number of children that will receive two double child benefit payments announced in Budget 2025, by county, in tabular form. [40148/24]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Child Benefit is a monthly payment to the parents or guardians of children under 16 years of age. Child Benefit can also be claimed for children aged 16,17 and 18 if they are in full-time education or full-time training or have a disability and cannot support themselves.

A double Child Benefit payment will issue to families on November 5th and December 3rd 2024. It is estimated that over 670,000 families will receive these double Child Benefit payments in respect of over 1.26 million children.

The estimated number of families in each county that will receive the double child benefit payment is currently being finalised and will be published shortly.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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328. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families that will receive the €400 working family payment lump sum announced in Budget 2025, by county, in tabular form. [40149/24]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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329. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families and the number of children that will receive €100 qualified child increment lump sum announced in Budget 2025, by county, in tabular form. [40150/24]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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A 100 cost of living lump sum payment for people getting a Child Support Payment (previously known as Increase for a Qualified Child ) will be paid for each qualified child in November 2024. The number of beneficiaries and the county breakdown is still subject to change depending as claims may open or close before the payment is made. However, at the end of July 2024, there were 339,135 payments for supported children, with an approximate county breakdown provided in the table below.