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One-Parent Family Payment

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  • #252
    HovaBaby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 301 ✭✭HovaBaby


    All this about the partner living in the house while Ma claims single parent's allowance will be stopped. If not this year, next year. The government knows it is going on, it is rampant, they could afford it during the boom.

    But i've a felling it will be ironed out soon.


  • #253
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    homerjay2005 wrote: »
    is it? what sorta figures is correct then?

    pre last years budget, mary hanifin advised that we were spending over 1billion in lone partent allowance. thats 90,000 people, receiving 12,000euro each.

    Here are some statistics:

    Key facts about one-parent families in Ireland:
    • 1 in 8 people in Ireland live in a one-parent family (Census 2006).
    • 1 in 6 families in Ireland is a one-parent family (Census 2006.)
    • Nearly half a million people live in one-parent families (Census 2006).
    • The number of one-parent families increased by 35,350 since 2002 (Census 2006)
    • The number of lone-parent families with children under 18 years of age increased by 41% between 2002 and 2006.
    • 14 per cent of one-parent families are headed by a father (Census 2006).
    • 1 in 5 children live in a one-parent family (Census 2006).
    • 8% of one-parent families have a child with a disability compared to 5% of two-parent families
    • There are 190,000 one-parent families in Ireland today – 18 per cent of all families (Census 2006).
    • One-parent families are at greater risk of poverty than most other families. You are 4.5 times more likely to live in poverty if you live in a one-parent family (EU-SILC 2006).
    • 10 per cent of one-parent families are living ‘with other persons’ (Census 2006).
    • Overall in 2006, 36 per cent of lone parents were single, 30 per cent were separated or divorced and 29 per cent were widowed.

    Key Facts about the One-Parent Family Payment:
    • 84,364 people are currently receiving the One-Parent Family Payment (December 2007). This has increased from 59,000 in 1997.
    • 76.7% of current recipients are unmarried; 11.7% separated; 7.6% divorced; 3% deserted
    • 98% of recipients are women
    • 60% of those receiving the OPFP are in employment
    • 58% of recipients have one child; 27% have two children; 10% have three children
    • The percentage of OPFP recipients under 30 years of age is falling (41.6%)
    • The percentage of OPFP recipients over 30 is increasing (currently 58.4%)
    • The number of teenage mothers fell from 4.4% in 1997 to 2.2% in 2007
    • 29, 600 OPFP recipients (35%) are on reduced personal rate due to income- vast majority down to earnings
    Interesting to note that at the last census less than 50% of all single parent families were claiming any benefits at all, and 60% of those who were, were already in employment.
    .


  • #254
    booboo88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88


    K-9 wrote: »
    Unmarried Dads are only liable for child maintenance, not the upkeep of the mother. Divorced parents would be different.
    And the mothet "upkeep" her bloody self. Only in this country are you spoon fed so bloody much its not worth their while gettinga a job


  • #255
    ttmac
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭ttmac


    I have spent the past year investigating claimants of the One Parent Family Tax Credit and the One Parent Family Allowance where I suspect that individuals have been cohabiting.

    Claiming these reliefs/benefits while cohabiting is fraud, whatever way you look at it or try to justify it. I would encourage anyone with information to report it, I do.

    The way I look at is, how long would I have to work to generate the tax that these fraudsters are claiming. How long would you have to work to pay a one parent family allowance claim? Remember, you're the one working, and the claimant is quite probably getting a a hell of a lot more than you are for very little effort.


  • #256
    danbrosnan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 900 ✭✭✭danbrosnan


    Its a very hard subject, i have experience and i know of people really struggling. I don't know of any one parent family who is rich to be honest and i truly think that some imaginative thinking needs to be done on the subject. I mean what do people consider cohabiting? Can a father not see there son or daughter? The way its set up at the moment is that its benifical for the one parent mother or father to get rid to claim! Bascially the government are pro non-relationship parenting! They got to look at it the other way, a lot of the replays have been, "convict them the criminals", "there loaded and there scamming the government", the government has to look at each case individually and where they are actually scamming do something about that. I honestly do think that most family's just surviving now, barely hanging on and i do think a fresher approach rather "then the your scamming cut off there payments" will work. People are afraid and being afraid brings hate and noncooperation. Now on the other hand there is a certain ethnic minority who are completely taking the piss and not only scamming the government but scamming every one around them. So if we could start there and work are wy through that be great. :pac::p


  • #257
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    What's this 'we' shíte?

    I was born in 1960 and I never heard of any of this stuff until it came out in the '90s.

    repressing memories for 30 years were you?


  • #258
    brendan1983
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭brendan1983


    Owryan wrote: »
    If you know it for a fact then report them.

    What happens if the father is reported on for living with the girl he had the child to and she is claiming single parent benefits.. Is he made to pay back the money she was getting to bring the child up because the state has paid to raise his child while he was still living with the child's mother ..


  • #259
    brendan1983
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭brendan1983


    ttmac wrote: »
    I have spent the past year investigating claimants of the One Parent Family Tax Credit and the One Parent Family Allowance where I suspect that individuals have been cohabiting.

    Claiming these reliefs/benefits while cohabiting is fraud, whatever way you look at it or try to justify it. I would encourage anyone with information to report it, I do.

    The way I look at is, how long would I have to work to generate the tax that these fraudsters are claiming. How long would you have to work to pay a one parent family allowance claim? Remember, you're the one working, and the claimant is quite probably getting a a hell of a lot more than you are for very little effort.

    What happens when these people are caught do they have to repay the money that was claimed


  • #260
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    brendan1983 wrote: »
    What happens when these people are caught do they have to repay the money that was claimed

    Hopefully. Along with a nice little fraud conviction to boot.


  • #261
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Mod- Ancient thread. Take it to the state benefits forum for better answers. Be sure to read their charter before posting. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=861


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