This report covers quarterly counts of social welfare recipients by programme group, scheme, and nationality category. It is useful for tracking administrative burden and programme mix, but it cannot by itself prove welfare receipt rates across population groups.
How to Read It
- A person can appear in more than one scheme in the same quarter.
- A long-term recipient appears in each quarter they receive support.
- The nationality categories are broad and do not provide population denominators.
- Q4 snapshots are better for year-on-year comparison than summing all quarters.
Caveat: these are recipient-instances, not unique people. Raw counts should not be presented as welfare-dependency rates without matching population denominators.
Source
Department of Social Protection via data.gov.ie: Welfare recipients by scheme and nationality group.