Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal West, Sinn Fein)
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389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of individuals who received the carers support grant in June 2025 and who are not also in receipt of carer’s allowance or carer’s benefit. [68017/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The Carer’s Support Grant is an annual payment made to carers who get Carer's Allowance, Carer's Benefit or Domiciliary Care Allowance. It can also be paid to certain other carers providing full-time care, provided they meet age, residency and employment conditions, and are not in receipt of Jobseeker's Allowance or Jobseeker's Benefit.

The number of recipients of the Carer's Support Grant in June 2025 was 139,351. Of these, 5,730 were not in receipt of Carer's Allowance, Carer's Benefit, or Domiciliary Care Allowance.

Table 1 - Recipients of the Carer's Support Grant and other schemes, June 2025.