Statistical Information on Social Welfare Services
Department of Social Protection.
To provide a source of reliable statistical data for the development and implementation of policies to protect those dependent on social welfare.
All recipients and beneficiaries of services provided by the Department of Social Protection in Ireland.
Comprehensive data relating to the recipients and beneficiaries of services provided by the Department of Social Protection.
Information includes details of expenditure on, and recipients and beneficiaries of: jobseeker’s benefit and allowance; illness benefit; invalidity pension; disability allowance; blind pension; carer’s allowance; carer’s benefit; injury benefit and occupational injury benefits and other social protection schemes.
Information is provided from the following sources:
- Department of Social Protection
- Department of Finance
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Office of the Revenue Commissioners
- HSE.
Annual reports published around July of each year and made available on the Department website.
This template has not been updated since Version 2.0 of the Catalogue in 2014