Over 7,000 Kildare People Are In Receipt Of Unemployment Payments.

Friday, 11 June 2021 07:00

By Ciara Plunkett @plunkettciara

The data has been released by the Department of Social Protection.

Over 7,000 Kildare people are receiving Jobseeker's Allowance and Jobseeker's Benefit.

The Dept. of Social Protection says 5,195 people in the county are in receipt of JA.

That's higher than in every surrounding county, bar Dublin.

Another 1,982 people in Kildare are being paid the Jobseeker's Benefit.

The overall figure does not include the number of people in Kildare in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment.

County of residence	Jobseeker's Allowance	Jobseeker's Benefit
Carlow	2,360	546
Cavan	2,757	699
Clare	4,066	1,452
Cork	11,460	4,482
Donegal	8,484	1,428
Dublin	33,436	12,609
Galway	7,711	2,181
Kerry	5,026	2,061
Kildare	5,195	1,982
Kilkenny	3,044	876
Laois	2,861	719
Leitrim	1,512	287
Limerick	5,610	1,709
Longford	1,946	333
Louth	5,320	1,276
Mayo	5,302	1,150
Meath	4,663	2,340
Monaghan	2,025	549
Offaly	2,603	768
Roscommon	1,979	539
Sligo	2,580	584
Tipperary	5,380	1,348
Waterford	4,981	1,153
Westmeath	3,175	899
Wexford	6,173	1,674
Wicklow	4,018	1,268
Unknown	213	414
Total	143,880	45,326

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