{"id":328463,"date":"2026-03-04T13:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/328463\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:16:09","slug":"kildare-ranks-third-in-ireland-for-maternity-and-paternity-benefit-claims-in-latest-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/328463\/","title":{"rendered":"Kildare Ranks Third in Ireland for Maternity and Paternity Benefit Claims in Latest Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69a82357ed605.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Kildare South Labour TD Mark Wall\/ Photograph: Sasko Lazarov \/ \u00a9 RollingNews.ie<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Over 1,800 maternity claims and 508 paternity claims recorded in Q4, with Kildare outpacing Meath and Wicklow\n        <\/p>\n<p>Kildare recorded the third highest number of maternity and paternity benefit claims in the country in the final three months of last year.<\/p>\n<p>New figures obtained by Kildare South Labour TD Mark Wall show there were 1,814 maternity benefit claims made in the county in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Only Dublin, with 8,267 claims, and Cork, with 3,228, recorded higher figures during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Kildare\u2019s figures were significantly higher than neighbouring counties.<\/p>\n<p>In Meath, there were 1,450 maternity claims during the quarter, while Wicklow recorded 966.<\/p>\n<p>The same pattern is reflected in paternity benefit uptake.<\/p>\n<p>Kildare recorded 508 paternity claims, compared to 401 in Meath and 253 in Wicklow.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,400 parents in Kildare \u2014 1,403 in total \u2014 availed of Parent\u2019s Benefit between October and December.<\/p>\n<p>That compares with 1,253 claims in Meath and 802 in Wicklow.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, there were 29,460 maternity claims, 8,023 paternity claims, and 25,718 Parent\u2019s Benefit claims recorded in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kildare South Labour TD Mark Wall\/ Photograph: Sasko Lazarov \/ \u00a9 RollingNews.ie Over 1,800 maternity claims and 508&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,28328,3770,43],"class_list":["post-328463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kfm","tag-kildare","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}