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:
There are other factors. For example, the person providing the care is meant to be providing full-time care and attention, ideally in the home of the recipient of care. We provide flexibility for the claimant to work up to 15 hours and to live away from the recipient of care, provided they can get there within a certain time. All of these things have to be assessed, because many people claiming carer's allowance are not living with the recipient of care. As such, we have to assess whether they are in fact providing full-time care and attention.
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