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Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The social welfare system is primarily a contingency-based system, with entitlement based on defined contingencies, such as sickness, unemployment, old age or widowhood. Primary social welfare legislation provides that only one social welfare payment is payable at any one time. While it can happen that a person may experience more than one contingency at the same time - for example, an...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Back to Work Allowance (BTWA) scheme is designed to assist the long term unemployed, lone parents, people with disabilities and other social welfare recipients to return to the workforce. There were two strands to the scheme, the Back to Work Enterprise allowance for the self-employed and the Back to Work Allowance for employees. The Back to Work Allowance strand was closed to new...

Written Answers — Child Support: Child Support (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Letters issue on a regular basis to parents who receive Child Benefit as part of the Department's ongoing customer service and control work. Parents are asked to verify that they continue to reside in Ireland, that they satisfy the conditions for Child Benefit and that all details held by the Department are correct. The record, relating to the person concerned has been updated on the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme (SWA) provides for a supplement to be paid in respect of mortgage interest to any person in the State whose means are insufficient to meet their needs. The scheme is administered by the community welfare service of the Health Service Executive on behalf of the Department. The purpose of mortgage interest supplement is to provide short term support to...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned has now been registered in that Office. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Social Welfare Services on the grounds of appeal be sought. When received, the appeal in question will be referred to an Appeals Officer for consideration....

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The homemaker's scheme makes qualification for the state pension (contributory) easier for those who take time out of the workforce for caring duties. The scheme which was introduced in and took effect from 1994 allows up to 20 years spent caring for children under 12 years of age or incapacitated adults to be disregarded when a person's social insurance record is being averaged for pension...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The conditions for those taking up either an employment or training opportunity were subject to a number of improvements in 2007 which included the replacement of the retention arrangements under the rent supplement scheme. Under the current arrangements a person participating on community employment (CE) scheme can continue to receive rent supplement subject to their satisfying the standard...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Due to staff action currently being taken in the HSE, I regret that I am unable to provide the information sought by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Jobseeker's Allowance is a means tested social assistance scheme operated by my Department. For means test purposes, account is taken of the income and assets of both the claimant and his or her spouse/partner including the earnings of the spouse. In the case of a single claimant aged under 25 years of age, account is also taken of the value of any benefit and privilege enjoyed by that...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Due to staff action currently being taken in the HSE, I regret that I am unable to provide the information sought by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Free Travel Scheme: Free Travel Scheme (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The current free travel scheme operated by the Department provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme. These include road, rail and ferry services provided by companies such as Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann, as well as Luas and services provided by over 90 private transport operators. The free travel...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Due to staff action currently being taken in the HSE, I regret that I am unable to provide the information sought by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The person concerned applied for a Disability Allowance on 6 April 2010. Her claim was assessed by a medical assessor from this Department and she was found to be not medically suitable for Disability Allowance. The person was also assessed with weekly means of €459.13 from her husband's salary. As this exceeds the statutory limit of €385.70 per week for payment of Disability Allowance...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There are currently 41,332 recipients of a basic weekly supplementary welfare allowance payment. This includes 3,846 individuals who are in accommodation supplied by the Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform and receive a direct provision allowance which is paid under the basic supplementary welfare allowance scheme.

Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Full details of the Employer Job (PRSI) Incentive Scheme, including the application procedure, will be announced shortly. It will be administered by the Department of Social Protection. The scheme will run for the calendar year 2010 only. However, any qualifying employment created in 2010 will be eligible for the scheme, which will be structured so that employment created prior to the launch...

Written Answers — European Council Meetings: European Council Meetings (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: From the beginning of 2007 there have been ten meetings of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council of the European Union. It is the practice for the Employment and Social Affairs items to be taken on one day of this two day meeting, and Health and Consumer Affairs to be taken separately on the other. In relation to the former, the subject matter covers topics which...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources which has overarching responsibility for the energy portfolio has convened an inter-departmental/agency group on Affordable Energy to coordinate and drive Government policy in this area. This group will make recommendations as to the precise package of measures including any income support measures that should be put in place to...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Due to staff action currently being taken in the HSE, I regret that I am unable to provide the information sought by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No application for commercial partnership status has been received in the case of the person mentioned (details supplied). However, the Department will now initiate a commercial partnership insurability investigation and a local Social Welfare Inspector will be in touch with the person shortly to arrange an interview.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (11 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The current duration of the One-Parent Family Payment, whereby a lone parent can receive the One-Parent Family Payment until their child is 18 – or 22 if in full-time education – without any requirement for them to engage in employment, education or training, is not in the best interests of the recipient, their children or society. My Department has undertaken a comprehensive review of...