Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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320. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide a breakdown, by county, of the 46,000 households that received a €400 lump sum working family payment in Budget 2025, in tabular form. [10478/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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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 the provision of a once off €400 cost of living lump sum payment to all WFP recipients which was paid in November 2024.

The number of households, by county that received the cost of living lump sum payment is provided in the table below.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.