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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The person concerned applied for jobseeker's benefit on 13 September, 2010 and her entitlement is currently being examined. When all enquiries are completed a decision will be made as soon as possible and she will be notified of the outcome.

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The five priority issues identified in the correspondence from the Carers Association are: · "Hands off" the half rate carer's allowance and the respite care grant; · Protect carer's allowance and carer's benefit and address anomalies in qualifying criteria; · Enhance and support carers' health and wellbeing; · Provide comprehensive supports for family carers, including young...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The person concerned has been approved for a grant of €1000 under the technical assistance and training fund. Payment will issue shortly.

Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Workers are insured under the Social Welfare Acts as either employed or self-employed contributors. All workers, both employed and self-employed, are obliged to pay PRSI contributions as a percentage of their personal reckonable income. Participation in a Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS) course is not, in general, regarded as employment or self-employment. Consequently...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme (SWA) is administered on behalf of the Department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive (HSE). Apart from a number of excluded categories, anyone in the State who satisfies a habitual residency condition (HRC) and a means test, has registered for employment, unless they have a physical or mental disability, and can prove...

Written Answers — Departmental Contracts: Departmental Contracts (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department has contracts in place for 1,801 individual voice and data links with Eircom. The total cost of these contracts was some €6m in 2009. Officials in the Department are currently preparing a tender for the provision of all such links and this is due to be published before the end of the year. The Department also has a private fibre network connecting Dublin headquarter...

Written Answers — Departmental Contracts: Departmental Contracts (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The energy requirements of Government Departments, Offices and Agencies were catered for by the former Government Supplies Agency (GSA). The National Procurement Service has subsumed responsibility for GSA contracts. Details of the energy contracts are indicated as follows. Supplier Contract Date Contract Value 2008 Contract Value 2009 Electricity ESB.ieEnergia PS 77 01/07/07...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In order to qualify for a jobseeker's payment, a person must satisfy certain conditions which include being available for and genuinely seeking work. If a customer fails or refuses to take up a reasonable offer of employment, he or she may be disqualified for payment for up to nine weeks. In determining whether steps taken to seek employment have been reasonable, the Deciding Officer...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If a person takes up a position on a community employment scheme, it can impact on his or her social welfare entitlement in different ways, as the conditions for receipt of social welfare payments vary across the schemes. >Jobseeker's Allowance/Benefit To qualify for jobseeker's allowance/benefit, a person must be unemployed, available for and genuinely seeking work. A person is...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 61,920 casuals/part-time workers were in payment on Live Register on 24th September, 2010 (i.e. in receipt of jobseeker's benefit or jobseeker's allowance).

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The position is that where a person in receipt of a disability-related payment, such as Invalidity Pension, Illness Benefit or Disability Allowance, continues to satisfy the qualifying conditions for that scheme, the pension or allowance continues to be paid up to age 66, at which point the person concerned can apply for a State Pension (Contributory) or State Pension (Non-Contributory) as...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Self-employed workers are liable for PRSI at the Class S rate of 3%. Class S contributions provide cover for long-term benefits such as State pension (contributory) and widow's/widower's pension (contributory). They do not provide cover for short-term benefits such as jobseeker's and illness benefits - these are only available to people covered by PRSI Classes A, E, H and P. This reflects...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The back to school clothing and footwear allowance (BSCFA) scheme provides a one-off payment to eligible families to assist with the extra costs when their children start school each autumn. The allowance is not intended to meet the full cost of school clothing and footwear but only to provide assistance towards these costs. A person may qualify for payment of an allowance if they are in...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Supplementary Budget of April 2009 provided for the discontinuance of the Christmas bonus. No provision has been made for the payment of a Christmas bonus in the 2010 Estimates.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the appeal from the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer who proposes to hold an oral hearing in this case. The person concerned will be informed when arrangements have been made. There was a 46% increase in the number of appeals received by the Social Welfare Appeals Office in 2009 when compared to 2008, which in itself...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 5 May 2010. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. These papers were received back in the Social Welfare Appeals Office on 15...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received by the Department on 13th September 2010. This application together with medical reports has been forwarded to one of the Department's Medical Assessors for a medical opinion on the case. Upon receipt of this opinion a decision will issue to the person concerned. Currently it takes approximately seven weeks to process an application.

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No agencies or offices have been established under the aegis of my Department since 2007.

Written Answers — State Companies: State Companies (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No state-owned companies have been established under the aegis of my Department since 2007.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: An application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received on the 7th July 2010 from the person in question. This application was referred to one of the Department's Medical Assessors who found that her child was not medically eligible for DCA. A letter issued to the person in question on the 15th September 2010 where she was advised of the decision to refuse DCA. In the case of an...