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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Funding towards school meals is being provided in over 1,550 schools and other organisations, supporting up to 247,000 children at a cost of some €54 million in 2018, representing an increase of €6.5 million over the previous year. The Department was a member of the Inter-Departmental Advisory Group for the Review of the DEIS Programme undertaken by the Department of Education...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The provision of fostering services is a matter for TUSLA (the Child and Family Agency). This includes any supports, including financial, that are required by either the foster parents or the foster children that specifically relate to fostering. Under the current social welfare legislation in order to qualify for payment of OFP, an applicant must be a qualified parent of at least one...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: I regret that the county breakdown requested by the Deputy is not readily available in my Department. However, I include for her information the total number of recipients benefiting from an increased payment for a qualified adult that were in payment at the end of January. Number of Qualified Adult Allowances in payment at the end of January 2018 Scheme Qualified Adults State Pension...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Our records indicate that the number of adult dependants on the relevant activation schemes i.e. Back To Education Allowance, Back to Work Enterprise Allowance, Short Term Enterprise Allowance, Tús, Gateway and Community Employment in January 2018 are set out in Table 1 as follows. Table 1 - No. of Adult Dependants paid on Activation Schemes at Jan 2018 County Back to Education...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Payments (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (formerly known as Family Income Supplement) is a weekly tax free payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. An application for Working Family Payment (WFP) was received from the person concerned on 25 November 2017. The person concerned has now been awarded WFP with effect from 5 October 2017 to 3 October 2018. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: As of 15 February 2018, over 3.126 million PSCs have been issued. This includes almost 1.01 million Free Travel PSCs. The number of PSCs currently issued to under 18 year olds is 27,315. In this context, it should be noted that a new PSC is issued to a person once he or she turns 18 years of age. I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: SAFE 2 identity verification is currently required for: - Access to Social Welfare Services (including Child Benefit and Treatment Benefits); - First time adult passport applicants in the state; - Replacement of lost, stolen or damaged passports issued prior to January 2005, where the person is resident in the State; - Citizenship applications; - Driver Theory Test Applicants; and - Access to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension Appeals (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred on 19thFebruary 2018 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 Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The 2014 provisions relating the extension of self-employed social insurance to spouse/civil partner performing the same or ancillary tasks as a self-employed worker, but who is not a business partner or an employee, were implemented on foot of Directive 2010/41/EU, relating to the application of the principle of equal treatment between men and women engaged in an activity in a self-employed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, my Department may make a single exceptional needs payment (ENP) to help meet essential, once-off expenditure which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. The Government has provided over €36 million for exceptional payments in 2018. The ENP scheme is demand led and payments are made at the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. I confirm that my department received an application for CA from the person concerned on the 24 January 2018. The application is currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Make Work Pay (MWP) report was published on 6thApril 2017, following the deliberations of an interdepartmental group established under the Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities. The interdepartmental group considered a range of approaches across relevant Departments to deliver on this commitment and made 24 recommendations under the broad headings of:...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Applications (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned has been awarded state pension (contributory) with effect from the 14 of May 2014. The decision has been made based on the current available social insurance record of the person concerned, comprising 1,404 reckonable paid and credited contributions. This results in a reduced rate pension entitlement based on a yearly average of 31 contributions covering the period...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension Eligibility (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 545 and 546 together. To qualify for a widow(er)’s or surviving civil partner’s (contributory) pension, the surviving spouse must be deemed, under Irish law, to be the legal widow(er) of the deceased. The legislative provisions pertaining to the recognition of divorces outside the State are set out in Section 5 of the Domicile and Recognition of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension Applications (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: To qualify for a widow(er)’s or surviving civil partner’s (contributory) pension, the surviving spouse must be deemed, under Irish State Law, to be the legal widower of the deceased. The person concerned was previously married in Ireland and divorced in Northern Ireland. His subsequent marriage to his late wife took place in Northern Ireland. The legislative provisions...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension Applications (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: To qualify for a widow(er)’s or surviving civil partner’s (contributory) pension, the surviving spouse must be deemed, under Irish State Law, to be the legal widow of the deceased. The late husband of the person concerned was previously married in Ireland and subsequently divorced in the United Kingdom. The legislative provisions pertaining to the recognition of divorces...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an oral hearing of the appeals of the person concerned took place on 7thDecember 2017. At the oral hearing it was agreed that the person concerned would send in further documentation in support of the appeals and this has been reiterated in subsequent communications between the Appeals Officer and the person concerned. To date, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Applications (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned submitted an application for Supplementary Welfare Allowance to assist with funeral expenses on the 13th of February 2018. A decision to award the claim was made by the designated person on the 13th of February 2018 and a payment was issued to the person concerned in the amount of €2,500 that day. I hope this clarifies the matter for the deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 31 July 2017. It is a condition for receipt of CA that the applicant’s...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Data (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The six rates bands came into existence at the start of September 2012 for persons with a date of birth after 31stof August 1946. At the end of January 2018 there were 395,091 people in receipt of state pension (contributory) in total and of these 153,355 were in receipt of payment based on the six rate bands from September 2012. The number of claimants in each of these rate bands is: ...