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- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on behalf of my Department by the Health Service Executive, provides for the payment of a weekly or monthly supplement in respect of rent to eligible persons in the State whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation needs. In order to qualify for rent supplement a person must satisfy a number of conditions...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: Rent supplements are payable under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. Neither I nor my Department has any function in determining entitlement in individual cases. The western region of the executive has advised that the person concerned was refused rent supplement as the household...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The over 80 allowance is an extra payment to people receiving social welfare pensions and in budget 2006 I was pleased to raise this to â¬10 per week. The allowance is paid in respect of the main claimant and is not currently available to those receiving social welfare support as qualified adults on the pension of their spouse or partner. At present, there are almost 3,700 qualified adults...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The person concerned was awarded disability benefit from 15 February 1996. Her claim was disallowed from 23 February 2004 after she was found capable of work by a medical assessor of the Department. She appealed against the disallowance and she was examined by a different medical assessor who also considered her to be capable of work. Her case was then referred to an appeals officer who...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: Rent supplements are available to eligible people through the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. Neither I nor my Department has any function in determining entitlement in individual cases. Section 190(1) of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 2005 provides that people in full-time...
- Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (2 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The five statutory agencies operating under the aegis of my Department are the Pensions Board, the Combat Poverty Agency, Comhairle, the Family Support Agency and the Social Welfare Tribunal. In addition, the Pensions Ombudsman comes under the remit of my Department. Appointments made to these agencies since 1 March 2001 are outlined in the following tables. The Pensions Board was established...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which includes rent supplement, is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. Neither I nor my Department have any function in relation to decisions on individual claims. Under supplementary welfare allowance rules, rent supplement is not normally payable to couples where either of them is engaged in...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (7 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which includes rent supplement, is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. Neither I nor my Department have any function in decisions on individual claims. To qualify for rent supplement, a person must satisfy a number of conditions. The person must be a bona fide tenant, be habitually resident in...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, SWA, which includes rent supplement, is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. Neither I nor my Department have any function in relation to decisions on individual claims. Under standard SWA rules, rent supplements are normally calculated to ensure that a person, after the payment of rent, has an...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. Neither I nor my Department have any function in decisions on individual claims. The supplementary welfare allowance scheme provides for exceptional needs payments to assist with essential, once-off expenditure which a person could not reasonably be...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (7 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The current position in my Department is that 155 or 3.3% of the total staff of my Department are persons with disabilities. The majority of people with disabilities who are employed in my Department were recruited by way of competitions conducted by the Public Appointments Service, PAS. Persons with disabilities can avail of two recruitment processes operated by PAS, standard open...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (7 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The free travel scheme is available to all people living in the State aged 66 years or over. All carers in receipt of carer's allowance and carers of people in receipt of constant attendance or prescribed relative's allowance, regardless of their age, receive a free travel pass. It is also available to people under age 66 who are in receipt of certain disability type welfare payments, such as...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive, provides for exceptional needs payments to assist with essential once-off expenditure which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of his or her household income or other resources. There is no automatic entitlement to this payment....
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (7 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The aim of the national fuel scheme is to assist householders on long-term social welfare or health service executive payments with meeting the cost of their additional heating needs during the winter season. Fuel allowances are paid for 29 weeks from the end of September to mid-April. The allowance represents a contribution towards a person's normal heating expenses. In addition, many of the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (7 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: Entitlement to maternity benefit is generally contingent in the first instance on entitlement to statutory leave. The right to maternity leave is established under the maternity protection legislation, which is the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. Maternity benefit payments serve as a non-means tested income transfer in lieu of earnings forgone...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (7 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 355 to 357, inclusive, together. Rent supplements are available to eligible people through the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. Neither I nor my Department have any function in determining entitlement in individual cases. Under section 190(1) of the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (7 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The back to work enterprise allowance is designed to encourage the long-term unemployed to take up self-employment opportunities by allowing them to retain a reducing proportion of their social welfare payment, plus secondary benefits, over four years. From 1 March 2006, I have reduced the qualifying period for the back to work enterprise allowance â self employed â from the previous...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: Under the terms of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive, an exceptional needs payment may be made to help meet an essential, once-off cost which the applicant is unable to meet out of his-her own resources. There is no automatic entitlement to this payment. Each application is...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: My Department's policy is to ensure that a range of payment options is available to customers and that service is continually improved by providing access to the wide range of payment options and new services and facilities now available. At present, some 175,000 customers of my Department, mostly those on unemployment and other short term payments, receive their payment by means of...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Mar 2006)
Séamus Brennan: Under Irish social welfare legislation provision is made for the payment of a bereavement grant which is payable on the death of an insured person or of a child under age 18, or under age 22 if in full-time education. The payment is based on PRSI contributions and is a once-off payment of â¬635 payable to the person responsible for paying the funeral bill. Entitlement to the grant can be...