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€3.5 Million Paid To Kildare People In Exceptional Needs Payments For Housing Matters.

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Data released to Kildare North Sinn Féin TD, Réada Cronin.

Over, €3.5 million has been paid out to people, families and households in Kildare in exceptional needs payments related to housing.

The top-up payments were made by the Dept. of Social Protection between 2018, and April of this year.

ENPs are paid under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance Scheme.

It is a single payment to help meet essential, once-off, exceptional expenditure, which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income.

Tabular Statement 2: Expenditure on Housing related Exceptional Needs Payments in County Kildare in the period 2018-2020and to date in 2021.

Year Co Kildare Housing related - Exceptional Needs Payments
2018 €853,000
2019 €1,023,000
2020 €1,298,000
2021 Jan-April €440,000

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