Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
Mr. John McKeon:
We would like it to be 12 weeks. We process applications for domiciliary care allowance, which is a slightly simpler scheme because there is no means test and so on, in approximately nine weeks, while we process those for disability allowance in approximately 12 weeks, and we would like to bring the time for carer's allowance down to that level.
It is a complicated scheme. We do not just look at the disability of the recipient of care. We look at the circumstances of the carer as well, including their means and their habitual residence. They are decisions that unfortunately take a long time and require a lot of information from the applicant.
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