The Government paid €4.5m in childcare allowances for children living outside of Ireland last year, new figures reveal.
The overseas Early Childcare Supplement payments quadrupled between 2007 and 2008 from €1.1m to €4.5m, the Department of Social and Family Affairs has confirmed.
The number of non-resident children qualifying for the allowance is estimated to reach about 7,000 this year, at a projected cost of €7m.
When the childcare payment was launched in 2006, it emerged that children of migrant workers who are resident in their home country were entitled to the annual €1,000 payment, even though it was designed to help spefically with childcare costs.
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/state-paid-836445m-for-children-living-abroad-1658189.html
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