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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions Payments (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: The information requested by the Deputy is not available in my Department. I am however informed that during the period specified there were 67,159 applications for state pensions of which 45,121 (67.2%) were awarded and 16,193 (24.1%) were disallowed and the remainder were either withdrawn by the applicant or are pending a decision. A breakdown of these figures is detailed in the tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Payments (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: The following table relates to the number of invalidity pension decisions that were awarded and disallowed from the start of January 2014 to the end of March 2015. (*)Please note that the statistics in relation to awarded cases include cases in the disallowed category which were subsequently awarded following a review or a successful appeal. While these statistics are not collated by...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: The information requested is as follows: Illness benefit claims from 1 January 2014 to 31 March 2015 Claims allowed Claims disallowed 203,155 76,319 For illness benefit statistical purposes - allowed/granted means claims awarded with a payment rate greater than zero. Claims that are disallowed/refused can come under a number of categories the most common being cases where a customer has no...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: The jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker’s allowance schemes provide income support for people who have lost work and are unable to find alternative full-time employment. The 2015 Estimates for the Department provide for expenditure this year on the jobseekers’ schemes of €3.01 billion. Legislation provides that a person must satisfy the conditions of being available for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Data (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: The following table relates to the number of disability allowance decisions that were awarded and disallowed from the start of January 2014 to the end of March 2015. (*)Please note that the statistics in relation to awarded cases include cases in the disallowed category which were subsequently awarded following a review or a successful appeal. While these statistics are not collated by...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Data (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: The numbers of domiciliary care allowance (DCA) applications that were received, processed and awarded in 2014 and to date in 2015 are detailed in the table below. This information is not collated or held on a county basis, so it is not possible to provide the more detailed information requested. Table: Domiciliary Care Allowance applications Year Applications received Applications...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Data (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: At the end of 2014 Family Income Supplement (FIS) was awarded to 50,306 people and had been refused to 12,436. The County breakdown was as follows: Awards Refusals Carlow 859 220 Cavan 1,153 275 Clare 1,181 302 Cork 5,354 1,347 Donegal 2,307 473 Dublin 11,917 2,961 Galway 2,357 668 Kerry 1,433 342 Kildare 2,205 522 Kilkenny 798 204 Laois 870 217 Leitrim 339 90 Limerick 2,095...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Data (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: The information requested by the Deputy in respect of a per-county breakdown of the number of farm assist claims awarded or refused from 1 January 2014 to date in 2015 is not available in my Department. I am however informed that there was an average of 9,854 monthly recipients during this period. A breakdown of the number of recipients in each of the months by county is detailed in the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 12thMarch 2015. 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 papers have been received from the Department, the case in question will be...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 93 and 107 together. The jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker’s allowance schemes provide income support for people who have lost work and are unable to find alternative full-time employment. The 2015 Estimates for the Department provide for expenditure this year on the jobseekers’ schemes of €3.01 billion. In line with other EU...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 25thMarch 2015, 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 Department and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 25thMar 2015, 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 Department and is...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 13 March 2015. 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 papers have been received from the Department, the case in question will be...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Payments (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: Customers who are in receipt of both the one-parent family payment (OFP) and the family income supplement (FIS), and whose entitlement to the OFP payment ceases, will have their FIS claim automatically increased in order to offset their loss of the OFP payment. This re-rating compensates for approximately 60% of the loss of their OFP payment. Lone parents who make the transition from...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: I understand that the person concerned inadvertently had two PPS numbers. As no one person should have more than one PPS Number, one was purged in 2007 and the other retained. All of the person’s social insurance contributions are held under this latter number. However, it appears that the Revenue Commissioners have incorrectly been using the purged number for the purposes of their...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: The Department of Social Protection and the Department of Education and Skills have agreed procedures that ensure that all one-parent family payment (OFP) recipients who are participating in full-time education when their entitlement to the OFP payment ends will be able to complete their course with income support – subject to the normal OFP scheme conditions. On foot of the July...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Applications (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that following an oral hearing of the case in question on 26 January 2015, the Appeals Officer requested that the person concerned submit further information in support of his appeal. The requested information was received on 10 April 2015 and the Appeals Officer is now considering the appeal in the light of all of the evidence submitted,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 12thMarch 2015, 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 Department and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pensions Council (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013 provided for the establishment of the Pensions Council. Its function is to advise the Minister for Social Protection on matters of relevance to pensions, with a particular focus on policies to support the sustainability and adequacy of pension provision. Its work will be advanced through discussion and research on pension...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Bodies Establishment (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: In line with the Statement of Government Priorities, the Government recently decided to proceed with work to develop a roadmap and timeline for the introduction of a new, universal, supplementary workplace retirement saving scheme. The development of this roadmap will be progressed by a Universal Retirement Savings Group (URSG). The broad role of the group is to consider the constituent...