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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Eligibility (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: The aim of JobBridge is to provide work experience placements for interns in order to assist in breaking the cycle where jobseekers are unable to get a job without experience. In order to protect the intern and to ensure the integrity of the JobBridge Scheme in achieving this aim a variety of control measures and criteria have been introduced. The Scheme is designed to guard against the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: My Department's local staff in Dublin 15 have been in contact with Mr Ryan's family in this instance. The advice given is that they should attend a meeting with an officer from the Department's welfare service at Roselawn Health Centre where all available options and choices will be discussed. It is hoped that this will happen next week.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 538 to 573, inclusive, together. The following tables set out the requested information in relation to 2012 and to date in 2013. Illness Benefit; Recipients May 2013 – 61,042 - Claims Registered Claims Awarded Average time to Award (Weeks) Claims Pending Decision Claimload (recipients and pending claims) Claims Disallowed Appeals Lodged Appeals...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: International Agreements (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: The Bilateral Social Security Agreement between Ireland and Australia originally came into force on 8th April 1992. The agreement was revised with effect from 1st April 2006. The main purpose of the Agreement is to protect the pension rights of people who have worked and paid reckonable social security contributions in both Ireland and Australia. The Agreement does this by allowing social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: Payment of supplementary welfare allowance, to the person concerned, was disallowed by a Designated Officer of the Department on the grounds that she failed to disclose her means. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal in this case was referred to an Appeals Officer on 4 July 2013, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 4 July 2013. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When these have been received from the Department, the case in question will be referred to an...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Rates (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: Child benefit is a universal payment that assists parents with the cost of raising children and contributes towards alleviating child poverty. The estimated expenditure on child benefit in 2013 is around €1.9 billion and it is currently paid to around 613,000 families in respect of some 1.17 million children. The Government is conscious that child benefit, as a universal payment,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Numbers (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 579 to 581, inclusive, 583, 585 to 590, inclusive, 592 to 599, inclusive, 601 to 604, inclusive, 606, 607, 609 to 612, inclusive, 614 and 620 to 622, inclusive, together. The information requested by the Deputy in respect of 2010 and 2011 remains unchanged from that which was forwarded to him in reply to questions 464, 465, 466, 468, 470, 471, 472, 473, 474,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: The total number of young persons under 25 years of age in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance at the end of May 2013 was 58,797. A detailed breakdown of this number by county and age is contained in the attached tabular statement. The cost of young persons in receipt of jobseekers allowance is not segregated from the scheme expenditure. Jobseeker's Assistance Recipients at end of May,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Numbers (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 591, 600, 605, 613, 615 to 617, inclusive, and 619 together. The information requested by the Deputy in respect of 2010 and 2011 remains unchanged to that forwarded to him in reply to questions 476, 485, 490, 497, 501, 502, 503 & 505 on 6 November 2012. The number of recipients of Social Welfare at county level breakdown is not published by my...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Application Numbers (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, the Department may make a single exceptional needs payment (ENP) to help meet essential, once-off, exceptional and unforeseen expenditure which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. There is no automatic entitlement to such a payment. ENPs are payable at the discretion of the officers...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Application Numbers (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: The Smokeless Fuel Allowance was an extra allowance paid by my Department to low-income households to help them meet the extra costs of using smokeless or low smoke fuels in certain parts of the country. This allowance was abolished from 1 September 2011. Information regarding the recipients of this allowance or its cost was not segregated from the statistics of the schemes under which it was...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Application Numbers (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: Under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, miscellaneous supplements may be paid to assist people in certain circumstances. The main types of miscellaneous supplements are: diet supplement; heating supplement; travel supplement; and crèche supplement. The budget provision for miscellaneous supplements in 2013 is €11.4 million. The detailed information requested by the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government is the lead Department for severe weather emergencies and the Office of Public Works has responsibility for capital flood relief activities. However, this Department has an important role to play in assisting households in the immediate aftermath of emergency events, such as the flooding of November 2009, October 2011 and June...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Applications (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: The Department is committed to ensuring that claims are processed as expeditiously as possible. Cases are dealt with by the Medical Assessors on a clinical priority basis. The delay in processing applications for companion free travel passes on medical grounds is due to a number of factors such as the increase in volume of customer claims to the Disability and Illness related schemes and the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received from the person concerned on the 11th March 2013. This application was referred to one of the Department’s Medical Assessors who found that the child was not medically eligible for the allowance. A letter issued on the 20th May 2013 advising of the decision. The person concerned subsequently lodged an appeal against this...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Legal Costs (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: The information requested is currently being completed within the Department and will be made available to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: The figures for the number of former self-employed persons now receiving benefits or jobseekers allowance are not available. However, a person who is currently self-employed may receive jobseekers allowance, subject to a means assessment, where the estimated income from self-employment is below the relevant jobseekers allowance threshold. At end of June 2013, there were over 11,500 persons...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received in respect of the child concerned on the 27th May 2013. This application was referred to one of the Department’s Medical Assessors who found that the child was not medically eligible for the allowance. A letter issued on the 11th July 2013 advising of the decision. In the case of an application which is refused on medical...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Eligibility (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Burton: The back to school clothing and footwear allowance scheme provides a once-off payment to eligible families to assist with the extra costs when children start school each autumn. The allowance is not intended to meet the full cost of school clothing and footwear but only to provide assistance towards these costs. The Government has provided €48.8m for the scheme in 2013. The...