Revealed: Over 6,000 Longford applicants make compensation claims in the wake of Storm Éowyn
County Longford has the fifth highest number of applications for Humanitarian Assistance Payment
New figures show that 6,075 people in Longford affected by Storm Éowyn applied for the Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (HAS).
Galway had the most applications with 30,592 and Mayo had the second highest with 17,303 with County Roscommon having the third highest with 8,702 applications. Cavan comes is fourth highest with 6,905 claims registered following by Longford (6,075) and Leitrim (4,387).
The new figures provided by the Department of Social Protection to TG4, said there were 93,007 applications registered in respect of 75,733 people totalling almost €12.8 million for HAS that was opened after extensive damage caused by Storm Éowyn in January of this year.
Currently there are 22,149 applicants, whose claims have been decided and have not been awarded a payment in respect of Storm Éowyn.
The report on HAS payments on 7LÁ was aired on TG4 yesterday evening (Tuesday, June 3) at 8pm.