Posted on 12/18/2017 11:30:43 PM PST by Olog-hai
Over 100,000 foreign nationals across all age groups were allocated a PPS Number in 2016, an increase of 13% on the year before.
The latest report from the Central Statistics Office looked into the number of PPSN (Personal Public Service Number) allocations to foreign nationals over the past six years — from 2011 to 2016. It found that there was a total of 107,767 allocations to foreign nationals across all of last year. […]
Just under 52,000 of all the allocations in 2016 registered some form of employment activity that year — marking a 4.1% increase on 2015.
In terms of social welfare, 8.9% of foreign nationals who were allocated a PPSN last year registered some form of social welfare activity in 2016. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thejournal.ie ...
The PPSN is the equivalent of the USA’s SSN.
Is Ireland going muzzy, too?
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