PPS Numbers

The Personal Public Service number (PPS No.) is a unique reference number to help people to access benefits and information from public service agencies quicker and easier. This includes services such as Social Welfare, Revenue, Public Healthcare and Education. It should be noted that the PPS number in itself does not convey any rights to residency, employment or benefits in Ireland where other conditions apply.

Statistics on the numbers of PPS numbers issued by nationality are available on the website of this page of the website of the Department of Social Protection.

Some PPS numbers may on longer be in use. There is no up-to-date information on the numbers which are active.

Report on PPSN allocations and Employment

The Central Statistics Office published a report on 23 December 2009 called "Foreign Nationals: PPSN allocations and Employment, 2008". This is a very useful report showing the annual allocation of PPS numbers and the employment activity by year.

The report gives an analysis of PPSN allocations and employer end-of-year (P35) returns for non-Irish nationals.

The full report is available on the following link (PDF).




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