No general pattern exists of immigrants being more likely to be in receipt of social welfare compared to native-born Irish citizens, an ESRI report on welfare receipt rates has found.<\/p>\n
The report used data from the Central Statistics Office to assess whether immigrants in Ireland are more or less likely to be in receipt of welfare payments compared to Irish-born people.<\/p>\n
It examined a broad set of payments including unemployment, sickness\/disability and family\/children-related welfare payments, including universal child benefit.<\/p>\n
In 2024, 56% of the Irish-born received at least one of these payments compared to 61% of immigrants.<\/p>\n
However, the report said that because universal payments reflect different family structures, a more nuanced picture emerges regarding specific payments and demographic factors.<\/p>\n
On unemployment-related payments, both immigrants and the native-born had an equal claim rate of 9%.<\/p>\n
For disability benefit, immigrants had rates of 4% compared to a rate of 6% for the Irish-born.<\/p>\n
The ESRI said a more complicated picture emerged when immigrants were separated by global regions of birth.<\/p>\n
For unemployment-related payments, the rate of receipt for the Irish-born over the period 2014 to 2024 was 16%.<\/p>\n
The rates of receipt are lower for immigrants from EU-West (13%) and Asia (12%) but higher for EU-East (21%) and Africa (21%).<\/p>\n
A second ESRI report, reviewing the international literature on the impact of immigration on public funds has found that on average over the last 20 years, foreign-born residents have made a higher fiscal contribution than Irish-born residents.<\/p>\n
The ESRI said fiscal impact varies by sub-group, with work-related migration generally having the most positive fiscal impact.<\/p>\n
In Ireland, migrants are younger and, on average, more likely to be employed than the non-migrant population, contributing to their positive fiscal impact.<\/p>\n
Non-EU migrants in Ireland were found to have very high employment and tertiary education rates, which according to the report meant they have a higher fiscal impact in Ireland compared to non-migrants.<\/p>\n
Both reports were funded by the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No general pattern exists of immigrants being more likely to be in receipt of social welfare compared to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-491600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491600","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=491600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}