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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: State pension non-contributory is a means-tested payment for people aged 66 and over, habitually residing in the State, who do not qualify for a state pension contributory, or who only qualify for a reduced rate contributory pension based on their social insurance record. For the purposes of the means-test, at initial application stage and throughout the lifetime of the pension claim, an...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 7 May 2018. The Deciding Officer decided that the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that, as a result, they require that level of care. Please find attached a table containing the number of times persons living in County Galway in receipt of CA had their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The below table shows a breakdown of the number of disability allowance appeals from persons living in County Galway at the time...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The total expenditure on rent supplement in 2022 and 2023, and the allocation for 2024 is set out in the table below: Rent Supplement Expenditure 2022 - 2024 Year €000 2022 Outturn 75,149 2023 Provisional Outturn 62,861 2024 Revised Estimate 51,961

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Paternity Benefit is payable for 2 weeks to employed and self-employed fathers who are on Paternity Leave from their employment and who satisfy certain PRSI conditions on their own insurance record. The leave can be taken within 26 weeks after the birth of the child. The main provisions relating to Paternity Benefit are the Paternity Leave and Benefit Act 2016, Section 241(2)(e) and Section...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. To qualify, the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment conditions, show that they are providing full-time care and attention and show that the care recipient requires full-time care and attention. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The spouse of the person concerned is in receipt of the state pension (contributory). He is also in receipt of an increase for a qualified adult (IQA) in respect of the person concerned. The application for IQA was received on 1 December 2023 and awarded from this date. A request for a review, in relation to backdating of the IQA was received. Following a review, the IQA entitlement...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Following the expansion of the Programme in recent years, some 2,600 schools and organisations, covering...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The extension of Child Benefit to 18-year-olds in full-time education was one of my key priorities as part of Budget 2024. The measure is expected to benefit approximately 60,000 18-year-olds each year at an estimated cost of €43.2 million in 2024. The extension of the scheme takes effect from this month. The qualifying conditions for receipt of payment of Child Benefit for home...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 322 and 323 together. The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Following the expansion of the programme in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Carer’s Support Grant (CSG) is an annual payment made to full-time carers who satisfy certain conditions. The person claiming the CSG must: Be aged 16 or over and ordinarily resident in this State. Care for the person on a full-time basis.Care for the person for a continuous period of at least six months – this period must include the first Thursday in June (1st June...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned applied for Jobseekers Benefit from 13th March 2024 and the claim was initially disallowed on 2nd April 2024. Following receipt of further information pertaining to the application a review of the decision to disallow the application was carried out. A new decision has issued to the person concerned advising that their application has been processed and their claim for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions. I confirm that my Department received an application for DA from the person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals system is underpinned by Chapter 2 of Part 10 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act, 2005 and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Government acknowledges the valuable role that family carers play and is fully committed to supporting carers in that role. This commitment is recognised in both the Programme for Government and the National Carers’ Strategy. The main income supports to carers provided by my department are Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Educational Disadvantage (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Following the expansion of the programme in recent years, some 2,600 schools and organisations, covering...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Following the expansion of the programme in recent years, some 2,600 schools and organisations, covering...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: As previously advised, officials in my Department are currently reviewing this person's backdated entitlement to Disability Allowance, beyond the current award date. An information request was sent to the person concerned on 30 April 2024, requesting that they provide their partner's last payslip for the year ending 2022 and 2023. They were also requested to provide bank statements for all...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available...