Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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330. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families that will benefit from the €60 per week increase in working family payment income thresholds for all family sizes from January 2025, by county, in tabular form. [40151/24]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly in-work support which provides an income support for employees on low earnings with children. To qualify for Working Family Payment, the customer must be working a minimum of 38 hours per fortnight in ongoing insurable employment and have at least one qualified child who normally resides with them.

Budget 2025 included an increase in the income thresholds for Working Family Payment. This increase will take effect from January 2025 and will see the income limit for all family sizes increase by €60. This will see an increase in payment across all awarded claims while also increasing the income qualification thresholds for claimants.

The the number of families that will benefit is being finalised and will be made public in due course.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.