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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Applications (16 May 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. Domiciliary care allowance (DCA) is a monthly payment for a child aged less than 16 years of age, with a severe disability, who requires ongoing...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (16 May 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. CA was awarded to the person concerned from 20 April 2017 and the first payment issued to his nominated bank account on 20 April 2017. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (16 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 204 and 205 together. The Deputy should note that all recipients of Jobseeker’s Allowance aged from 18 to 24 have a personal rate of €107.70, except for people in the following categories (who qualify for a non-age-reduced personal rate of €198.00): - People with dependent children; - People transferring from Disability Allowance to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Expenditure (16 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 206 to 208, inclusive, together. The main social welfare schemes for people who are unemployed are the jobseeker’s allowance and jobseeker’s benefit schemes which provide income support for people who have lost work and are unable to find alternative full-time employment. The 2018 Estimates for my Department provide for expenditure this year...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Data (16 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) formerly known as Family Income Supplement (FIS) is a weekly tax-free payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. Based on Occupation Code data held by the Department, there are currently 3,422 families in receipt of WFP where the principal employed person is classified as a public servant, that is, in the civil or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 May 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. My department received an application for CA from the person concerned on 22 November 2016. It is a condition for receipt of CA that every...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Appeals (16 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: Partial Capacity Benefit (PCB) is a social welfare scheme which allows claimants to return to work (if they have reduced capacity to work) and continue to receive a payment from my Department. To qualify they need to be currently in receipt of either Illness Benefit (for a minimum of 6 months) or Invalidity Pension. In the case referred to by the Deputy, my Department received an...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (16 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: The cost of increasing the monthly electricity allowance and the natural gas allowance by €10 per month per applicant is estimated to be €47.9 million and €5.9 million respectively. These costs are on a full year basis and are based on the estimated number of recipients in 2019. It should be noted that these costings are subject to change in the context of emerging...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Measures (16 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: Section 48 of the Pensions Act sets out the priorities on winding up a scheme. It sets out the order in which the liabilities must be discharged and how they may be discharged for members. When a scheme winds up, section 48(3)(b) provides that the trustees may, notwithstanding anything contained in the rules of the scheme and without the consent of the member concerned, discharge the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (16 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Back to Education Allowance scheme (BTEA) supports persons who have been in receipt of a social welfare payment, including the Widows, Widowers or Surviving Partners payments, to pursue full-time courses of education at second and third level subject to meeting the qualifying conditions. In general, access to the BTEA at postgraduate level (QQI levels 8 & 9 (masters)) is not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (16 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department commissioned Indecon to conduct a review of the Local Employment and Jobclub services. This review is the first significant independent review that has been commissioned since the Local Employment Services (LES) was established in 1995 and it will help inform future decisions regarding how the Department contracts, monitors and procures for LES. My officials are currently...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Marriage Registrations (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: Legislation governing marriages is found in Part 6 of the Civil Registration Act 2004 (as amended). Section 46 of that Act requires that the parties to the intended marriage give to a registrar three months’ notice of their intention to marry, unless an exemption has been granted by the courts under section 47. Applications for an exemption may be made to either: (i) the Circuit...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (17 May 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 April 2018. The application is currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Data (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 235 and 236 together. 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 and urgent payments in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Data (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: The fuel allowance is a payment of €22.50 per week from October to April, to over 338,000 low income households, at an estimated cost of €227 million in 2018. The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs. The allowance represents a contribution towards the energy costs of a household. It is not intended to meet those costs in full. Only...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: As I advised the Deputy in response to recent questions on this issue, the establishment of a service to assist lone parents to seek child maintenance payments would be a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality, as the Family Law Acts, which place a legal obligation on parents to maintain their children, are under the remit of that Department. In cases where the family...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: Scheme trustees have duties and responsibilities under trust law, under other relevant legislation and under the Pensions Act, 1990, as amended. The duties of pension scheme trustees include administering the trust in accordance with the law and the terms of the trust deed and rules. Consequently any decisions made by corporate or individual trustees of an occupational pension scheme are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) formally advised my Department, on 21st February 2018, that their first preliminary report on the PSC would be sent the Department in mid-March for comment. The second preliminary report on MyGovID, Single Customer View and the Public Service Identity was to be sent by April for comment. No further communication has been received from...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Advertising Expenditure (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department administers over 70 separate schemes and services, which affect the lives of almost every person in the State. In 2016, some 1.7 million applications for benefits, assistance and access to schemes were received and processed, and over 82 million individual payments were made to people across all age groups and to employers. The Department is fully committed to ensuring that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: SAFE Level 2 (SAFE 2) registration, used by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, allows a person to verify their identity once, not just for access to services provided by my Department but also for an increasing number of public services provided by other State agencies. Once a person is registered to SAFE 2, they can be issued with a Public Services Card (PSC). There...