Expenditure on disability income supports up from €3.5 billion in 2010 to €6 billion in 2025
Between 2018 and 2024, the number of recipients on disability allowance increased by 19 per cent, and expenditure increased by about 45 per cent, according to the Department of Social Protection. Photograph: Gettyfrom €3.5 billion in 2010 to €6 billion in 2025 has been driven by increasing diagnoses of “generalised anxiety and neurodiversity issues” including
A total of 167,000 disabled adults receive the weekly disability allowance of €244, at a cost of €2.4 billion a year. Numbers receiving the domiciliary care allowance have increased by 97 per cent in the past 10 years and by more than 36 per cent in the past five years – from 29,000 in 2015 to 57,364 at present. This non means-tested payment to parents or guardians of children with a significant disability is worth €360 a month. The cost is up 149 per cent since 2015 to more than €300 million a year.
A Green Paper on disability payments reform, published last year and intended to address the “big concern” that people with disabilities have some of the highest poverty rates of all cohorts and unemployment rates of more than 50 per cent – while facing higher costs associated with being disabled – was withdrawn last year “in light of negative reaction from disability groups”.
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