Written answers
Thursday, 22 March 2018
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Unemployment Benefits Data
Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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287. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young persons under 26 years of age that are in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance, jobseeker’s benefit and signing for credits for 12 months or more, by county in tabular form. [13451/18]
Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is detailed in the following table:
Recipients of Jobseeker’s Allowance, Jobseeker’s Benefit or signing for Jobseeker’s Credits aged under 26 for 12 months or more at the end of February 2018 by county | |||
|---|---|---|---|
County | Jobseeker’s Credits Only | Jobseeker’s Allowance | Jobseeker’s Benefit |
| Carlow | 1 | 156 | 0 |
| Cavan | 201 | 1 | |
| Clare | 1 | 203 | 0 |
| Cork | 1 | 624 | 0 |
| Donegal | 549 | 6 | |
| Dublin | 6 | 1936 | 2 |
| Galway | 429 | 2 | |
| Kerry | 3 | 270 | 3 |
| Kilkenny | 304 | 1 | |
| Kildare | 140 | 0 | |
| Laois | 1 | 235 | 1 |
| Leitrim | 1 | 67 | 0 |
| Limerick | 1 | 442 | 2 |
| Longford | 1 | 153 | 1 |
| Louth | 372 | 0 | |
| Mayo | 292 | 1 | |
| Meath | 235 | 0 | |
| Monaghan | 82 | 1 | |
| Offaly | 234 | 0 | |
| Roscommon | 1 | 108 | 0 |
| Sligo | 1 | 109 | 2 |
| Tipperary | 6 | 411 | 0 |
| Waterford | 1 | 285 | 1 |
| Westmeath | 1 | 297 | 1 |
| Wexford | 506 | 3 | |
| Wicklow | 3 | 218 | 0 |
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