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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (21 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: Referrals to the JobPath companies end under contact on 31st December 2019. The JobPath contract does contain a provision for early termination. It requires my Department to serve six months written notice on the contractor. The information in relation to payments, if any, associated with termination of the contract, is both confidential and commercially sensitive and to publish same would...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (21 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: As a result of more people living to pension age and living longer in retirement the number of State pension recipients is increasing year on year. This has significant implications for the future costs of State pension provision. This demographic change alone is expected to increase spending on pensions by over €220 million this year – not including the impact of rate...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (21 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: Rent supplement plays a vital role in housing families and individuals, with the scheme currently supporting 38,600 recipients at a cost of €253 million in 2017. The Department carried out a review of the rent limits in 2016 with the commitments contained in the Programme for a Partnership Government and increased limits were introduced in all areas of the country with effect from...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (21 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The back to school clothing and footwear allowance scheme provides a once-off payment to eligible families to assist with the costs of clothing and footwear when children start or return to school each autumn. The rates of the payment for the 2017 scheme were increased from €100 to €125 for children aged 4 to 11 and from €200 to €250 for children aged 12 years and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (21 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: Child Benefit is a monthly payment made to families with children in respect of all qualified children up to the age of 16 years. The payment continues to be paid in respect of children up to their 18th birthday who are in full-time education, or who have a disability. Child Benefit is currently paid to around 619,880 families in respect of some 1.2 million children, with an estimated...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (21 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: Family Income Supplement (FIS) is a weekly tax-free payment available to employees with one or more qualified children. The scheme provides additional financial support to employees on low pay. One of the conditions for receipt of FIS is that an applicant or the applicant and spouse, partner or cohabitant must be engaged in full-time remunerative employment as an employee for not less than 38...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (21 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: As part of the jobseekers claim review process, the person concerned was requested by a Social Welfare Inspector to submit documentation so as to clarify their current means. The person concerned failed to supply the required documents within one month. The Deciding Officer (DO) disallows the claim as it was not possible to establish that, based on the information available to them, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals (21 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The rent supplement claim for the person concerned was disallowed as she failed to provide documentation that would allow an accurate assessment of her entitlement. As previously stated in PQ Ref No. 32039-17, the person concerned has appealed this decision and her case has been referred to the Appeals Office. The Appeals Office has not yet made a decision on the case. The appeals process...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Applications (21 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Department has a number of supports available for those involved in part time work or on low earnings, depending on their circumstances, this would include Family Income Supplement or casual jobseekers payment. The person concerned had submitted a jobseekers application to the Department previously, but unfortunately did not supply the required documentation and therefore the Deciding...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (21 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: Family Income Supplement (FIS) is a weekly tax-free payment available to employees with one or more qualified children. The scheme provides additional financial support to employees on low pay. One of the conditions for receipt of FIS is that an applicant or the applicant and spouse, partner or cohabitant must be engaged in full-time remunerative employment as an employee for not less than 38...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (21 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The jobseeker's benefit (JB) and jobseeker’s allowance (JA) schemes provide income support for people who have lost work and who are available for and genuinely seeking full-time employment. Jobseeker’s allowance is a means tested social assistance payment whereas jobseeker’s benefit is a contribution based insurance scheme. The 2017 Estimates for the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Data (21 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: It is not possible for my Department to provide an estimate for the abolition of employer’s PRSI for new employees on the basis outlined by the Deputy, because of the difficulty in projecting the nature and duration of new jobs taken up by younger jobseekers. My department does, however, already provide financial support to businesses engaging additional employees through the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Yield (26 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 496 and 497 together. The following table sets out the estimated increase in the PRSI yield to the Social Insurance Fund from the measures detailed by the Deputy: Measure Yield Increase in the existing two bands of Class A employer PRSI by 2% by: - increasing the 8.5% rate of employer's PRSI to 10.5% and- increase the 10.75% employer rate to 12.75%...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Fund (26 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 2005, as amended, makes provision for the carrying out of actuarial reviews of the Social Insurance Fund at five yearly intervals. The last actuarial review, as at 31 December 2010, was published in 2012. The fourth actuarial review, as at 31 December 2015, is currently being undertaken by external consultants. The review will project the income...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (26 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: I confirm that my department received an application for carer’s allowance (CA) from the person concerned on 19 June 2017. It is a condition for receipt of carer’s allowance in respect of a child who is less than 16 years of age that domiciliary care allowance (DCA) must be in payment in respect of that child. A DCA application in respect of the child of the person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (26 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: I confirm that my department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person concerned on 12 June 2017. Additional information in relation to the person’s application was requested by a deciding officer on 20 September 2017. Once the information is received, the application will be processed without delay and the person concerned will be notified directly of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (26 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: My Department’s security contract is with Secureway at Risk Security (SAR) group. SARs wrote to the Department in July 2017 to advise that they had implemented the Employment Regulation Order (ERO) hourly rate increase from the 1st June 2017. Only one of the statutory bodies operating under the aegis of my Department has security contracts. The Citizens Information Board (CIB)...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (26 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence including that adduced at the oral hearing, has decided to allow the appeal of the person concerned. The person concerned has been notified of the Appeals Officer’s decision. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (26 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: Participants with JobPath receive intensive individual support over a period of up to 12 months to help them tackle barriers to employment and to find jobs. As part of the JobPath service each person is assigned a personal advisor who assesses their skills, qualifications and experience with a particular focus on identifying appropriate training and educational interventions in the context...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (26 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 504 and 508 together. My Department immediately activated its humanitarian assistance scheme, administered by the local Community Welfare Service (CWS), to assist householders in County Donegal affected by flooding following the recent severe weather conditions. The purpose of the humanitarian assistance scheme is to prevent hardship by providing...