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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 14th October 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...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 14th October 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...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: As previously advised, on the 7th December 2011, and on 27th November 2012 the issue of statutory redundancy was heard before the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) with 22 appellants seeking a redundancy payment. The EAT upheld that 20 of the 22 appellants were entitled to a statutory redundancy payment from their former employer, the organisation to which the Deputy refers. The appeals of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 30th October 2013, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence, has decided to allow the appeal of the person concerned by way of a summary decision. The person concerned has been notified of the Appeals Officer’s decision. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: The Government has approved a Payments Strategy for this Department which has the aim of modernising its payment processes and approaches over the coming years. It includes the objective of progressively migrating the bulk of the Department’s customers to electronic methods of payment, subject to satisfactory arrangements for all of the Department’s business and anti-fraud...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: The overall concern of the Government in this and previous Budgets has been to protect the primary weekly social welfare rates. Maintaining the rate of the State pension and other core payments is critical in relation to protecting people from poverty. To allow us to protect these core payments, we have had to look very carefully at other additional payments. While we are ending the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: Payment of carer’s allowance to the person concerned was disallowed by a Deciding Officer following an assessment by a Medical Assessor of the Department who expressed the opinion that the person being cared for is not so invalided or disabled as to require full-time care and attention as laid down in carer’s allowance legislation. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Appeals (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 25th November 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...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 26th November 2013, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Delays (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: There has been a rapid and sustained increase in the number of appeals received in the Social Welfare Appeals Office since 2009 which has placed extraordinary pressure on the office. Up to 2009, the average number of appeals received was 15,000 per annum whereas in 2012, the office received 35,484 appeals. In order to manage this increasing workload, significant resources and efforts have...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 16th September 2013. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought from the Department of Social Protection. These papers were received in the Social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: Injury Benefit is a benefit available under the Occupational Injuries Scheme, and is a weekly payment made to an insured person if s/he is unfit for work either due to an accident arising out of and in the course of employment or due to the contraction of a prescribed disease due to the type of work s/he does. No changes have been introduced to the conditions governing entitlement to Injury...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. There are approximately 81,000 rent supplement recipients for which the Government has provided over €403 million for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: Disability Allowance is a means-tested income support payment for people with a specified disability whose income falls below certain limits and who are aged between 16 and 66. The manner in which the payment is utilised is a matter for the claimant or, in certain cases, his/her guardian. Issues relating to the development of individualised systems of resource allocation for people with...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an oral hearing of the appeal of the person concerned took place on 13November 2013 and that the Appeals Officer is now considering the appeal in the light of all of the evidence submitted, including that adduced at the oral hearing. The person concerned will be notified of the Appeals Officer’s decision when the appeal has been...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 1 August 2013. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought from the Department of Social Protection. These papers were received in the Social Welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an oral hearing of the appeal of the person concerned took place on 14November 2013 and that the Appeals Officer is now considering the appeal in the light of all of the evidence submitted, including that adduced at the oral hearing. The person concerned will be notified of the Appeals Officer’s decision when the appeal has been...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. There are approximately 81,000 rent supplement recipients for which the Government has provided over €403 million...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: EIOPA is the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and is composed of high level representatives from the insurance and occupational pensions supervisory authorities of the European Union's Member States. EIOPA’s main goals are:- Better protecting consumers, rebuilding trust in the financial system;- Ensuring a high, effective and consistent level of regulation and...