Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal West, Sinn Fein)
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255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of working family payment applications received; the number of working family payment applications awarded; the number of working family payment applications withdrawn; the average time in weeks from date of application submission to award in the first instance; the number of working family payment applications that were carried over to the next year; the number of appeals made regarding working family payment; the number of appeals allowed; the number of appeals partially allowed; the number of appeals rejected; the number of appeals carried over to the next year, by year, from 2020 to 2025; the average time in weeks from date of application submission to final decision in respect of an appeal, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24991/25]

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.

The information requested regarding Working Family Payment claims for the period 2020-2025, where available, is detailed in the table below.

More data about claims processing for all of the Department's schemes for 2017 to 2023 is available in the Department’s Annual Statistics Reports which are available on the Department’s website (www.gov.ie/dsp).

The Annual Report of the Chief Appeals Officer is published each year and includes the detailed information requested. The reports for years 2017 to 2023 are available on the Social Welfare Appeals Office website (www.gov.ie/social-welfare-appeals-office).

Appeals figures for 2024 and the first quarter of 2025 provided in the table below are provisional and not final. Final figures for 2024 will be published in both Annual reports, which are due to be published later this year.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.