Monday, July 18, 2011

Social welfare spend up 1.5% to €20.8bn last year

Almost 2.2 million people were benefiting from a weekly social welfare payment at the end of 2010, according to the latest data from the Department of Social Protection.

Publishing her department's annual report for 2010 this evening, Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton said over 2 million claims were processed during the year with over 85.3 million payments made.

Minister Burton noted that weekly payments are made to over 1.4 million people as well as payments in respect of a further 190,000 qualified adults and over 494,500 children.

"Supports administered by my Department provide for the complex and multi-faceted needs of people at every stage of life," Minister Burton said.


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