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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (27 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is currently not in receipt of a Jobseekers Allowance payment. Regretfully he has failed without good cause to attend an Activation Review Meeting on the 25th July 2018 or to make contact with his Case Officer to rearrange this meeting. The sanctions imposed have led to both a penalty rate and a benefit suspension on his payment. Decisions in relation to the imposition...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (27 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is in receipt of a Jobseekers Allowance payment of €393.00 per week from the 11th September 2018. The weekly payment is made up of a personal allowance of €198.00, an adult dependent allowance of €131.40 and a child dependent allowance of €31.80 per each child. There are 2 child dependents. This is the correct level of Jobseekers Allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (2 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Customer Communications and Advertising Activity budget for 2018 is €1,350,000. This budget covers all planned external communications and public information campaigns. It is also used for the development of customer information guides, customer event, reports, videos, documents, posters and other visual material for use by the Department in its engagements with customers and...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: State Pension (Non-Contributory) (2 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department recently issued a guideline to staff clarifying the existing legislation for continuing to pay specific social welfare payments to either a customer or to a qualified dependant for a period of six weeks after death. The Department has not made any amendments to legislation or policy in this regard. The guideline was issued because it had come to attention that the existing...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (2 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: There are a number of payments and pensions paid by my department to people over State pension age. One of these is the State pension (contributory), qualification for which is based on a number of criteria, including that a minimum of 520 qualifying contributions have been paid into the Social Insurance Fund. People who have not made such contributions are generally paid alternative...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Carer's Allowance Applications (2 Oct 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 child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 14 May 2018. As the person concerned failed to supply any...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Carer's Allowance Applications (2 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: My department received an application for carer’s allowance (CA) from the person concerned on 29 January 2018. 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 child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. The...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Illness Benefit Eligibility (2 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 588 and 591 together. The Deputy has raised the concerns of individuals who are self-employed in relation to access to illness benefit payments from my Department. It should be noted that where an individual, whether employed or self-employed, does not qualify for a benefit payment based on their social insurance contribution status or history, my...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Working Family Payment Applications (2 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly tax-free payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. An application for WFP was received from the person concerned on 7th August 2018. The applicant has been awarded WFP for 52 weeks with effect from 9th August 2018 to 7th August 2019. The first weekly payment and all arrears owing will issue to the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Staff Sick Leave (2 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: Staff in my Department are paid sick pay in accordance with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Circular 05/2018 (Arrangements for Paid Sick Leave). In accordance with the provisions of the sick pay scheme staff who exceed 183 sick days in the previous 4 years may have access to Temporary Rehabilitation Remuneration for a period of 547 days. The officer concerned exceeded sick...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Project Ireland 2040 Expenditure (2 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection did not hold any seminars relating to Project Ireland 2040 up to and including September 2018. As such, there is no cost to report. I trust this clarifies matters for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Relations Contracts Expenditure (2 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department administers over 70 separate schemes and services, which affect the lives of almost every person in the State. In 2017, 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 committed to ensuring that members...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Insurance Data (2 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: Currently, Class A employers pay PRSI at the rate of 8.6% where weekly earnings are between €38 and €376. Once weekly earnings exceed €376, the rate of employer PRSI is 10.85%. It is estimated that a 0.6% decrease in the 8.6% rate of employer’s PRSI for persons earning less than €376 weekly would cost the Social Insurance Fund €25.2 million in a...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Correspondence (2 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: I have received a number of representations on behalf of employers expressing concerns about the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017, some of which are similar to the concerns raised in the representations made by the Deputy on behalf of the Irish Organic Association (IOA). In my response of last week to the particular representations made by the Deputy I explained a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (2 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The back to education allowance (BTEA) is a scheme that allows persons in receipt of certain social welfare payments the opportunity to pursue a course of study, while still maintaining their income support, subject to satisfying a number of conditions. The conditions include progressing in the level of education held by an applicant with reference to the national framework of...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Welfare Benefits Payments (2 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Christmas Bonus was abolished in the 2009 Supplementary Budget and was partially reinstated as a 25% payment in 2014. This increased to 75% in 2015 and the Bonus was paid at 85% in 2016 and 2017. The decision to pay a Christmas Bonus, and the rate of payment, is usually made as part of the Budget process. The cost of paying an 85% bonus, as in 2016 and 2017, is estimated at...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: Diet supplement, administered under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, is payable to qualifying persons, in receipt of the supplement prior to February 2014, who have been prescribed a special diet as a result of a specified medical condition. There are currently 2,500 in receipt of diet supplement at a cost of €1.4 million in 2018. Following the outcome of a review...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Working Family Payment Applications (2 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly tax-free payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. An application for WFP was received from the person concerned on 18th September 2018. The applicant has been awarded WFP for 52 weeks with effect from 16th August 2018 to 14th August 2019. The first weekly payment and all arrears owing issued to the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (2 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Deputy has raised the concerns of an individual who is self-employed in relation to access to social welfare payments from my Department. It should be noted that where an individual, whether employed or self employed, does not qualify for a benefit payment based on their social insurance contribution status or history, my Department may be able to assist in other ways. For example self...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Carer's Allowance Appeals (2 Oct 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 child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. I confirm that my department received an application for CA from the person concerned on the 25 January 2018. The...