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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: Diet supplement, administered under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, is payable to qualifying persons who have been prescribed a special diet as a result of a specified medical condition. Following the outcome of a review of the costs of healthy eating and specialised diets by the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute commissioned by the Department during 2013, the scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 20thMarch 2014. 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: Invalidity Pension Appeals (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 01stMay 2014. 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: Social Welfare Benefits (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The person concerned failed to attend activation meetings and a penalty rate was applied to his claim. Following further non-attendances at planned meetings his payment was suspended. During this period he was also requested to provide proof of address on several occasions. This was not provided and his claim is now closed.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Appeals (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that a one parent family payment appeal from the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer who has decided to convene an oral hearing in this case. Every effort will be made to hear the case as quickly as possible and the appellant will be informed when arrangements for the oral hearing have been made. The Social Welfare Appeals...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: I am not aware of any undue delays in processing claims for jobseekers payments. For claims processed in April, the average time to award a claim was 1 week for Jobseeker’s Benefit and 2 weeks for Jobseeker’s Allowance. Where a person states that they have found work, it is normal practice for a jobseeker claim to be closed. However, in cases where the customer informs the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Applications (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: According to the records of the department there is no application for an exceptional needs payment for the person concerned. It is open to her to make an application for such payment in her local office.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 440 and 455 together. Post-graduate courses that lead to a higher diploma in any discipline are eligible for support under the back to education allowance scheme (BTEA). Other than the professional masters in education, to which eligibility has been extended for the forthcoming academic year following the introduction of number of improvements to the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Funding (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: Moatview Fairfield Development Association recently submitted an application for additional places on their Community Employment project. The application indicates that the additional Community Employment participants would be employed managing Darndale Park. The main objective of Community Employment is to enable long-term unemployed people to re-enter the labour market through the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: One of the primary aims in the transfer of the Community Welfare Service (CWS) from the Health Service Executive to the Department on 1st October 2011 was to provide a streamlined and consistent service to customers. As part of this process and to support the Department’s activation commitments under the Pathways to Work Programme and the development of Intreo services nationally, it...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The provisions in the Pensions Act do take the length of service accrued in a pension scheme into account when calculating pension entitlement. For example, consider two members of a scheme, one with 30 years’ service completed and one with 15 years’ service completed. Assume the pension formula is 1/60thof pensionable salary per year of service, both have the same pensionable...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 02ndApril 2014. 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: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned together with the relevant Departmental papers were received by that office on 16thMay 2014 and that the case will be referred to an Appeals Officer 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...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The person concerned is in receipt of a reduced rate disability allowance. The means assessed against him are derived from a pension his spouse receives. There are no disregards allowable for private pensions in the calculation of means for disability allowance. If a person’s spouse or partner is in insurable employment, means are calculated as follows; gross earnings less employee...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: Child benefit is paid up to and including the month of a child’s 16th birthday and continues to the month of the 18thbirthday, provided the child is in full-time education. In order for payment to continue after the age of 16, it is necessary for the school to certify that the child is in full-time education and will be until the age of 18. In the case of the person concerned, a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The community welfare officer has contacted the person concerned by phone and has issued the necessary application forms. As soon as the completed forms and supporting documentation are received a decision will be made on his entitlement to payment.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 30thApril 2014, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. It is not possible to advise at this point when the appeal will be determined. The Social Welfare Appeals Office...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 28thApril 2014, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. It is not possible at this point to confirm when the appeal process will be completed. However every effort will be made...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 20thMay 2014, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The additional information submitted will be brought to the attention of the Appeals Officer dealing with this case. The...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Drug Treatment Programmes Funding (27 May 2014)

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 and unforeseen expenditure which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. There is no automatic entitlement to an ENP payment. ENPs are payable at the discretion of the officers administering the...