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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) supports the actions of EU countries to provide material/food assistance to the most deprived. Funding of €3.8 billion is available via the Fund between 2014 and 2020. Each Member State has to match this with a minimum of 15% national funding. The total value of the fund in Ireland for the period 2014 to 2020 is €26.7m,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Food Poverty (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: The CSO publishes two items from the Survey of Income and Living Conditions relating specifically to the consumption of food. The first refers to the percentage of the population who were “unable to afford a meal with meat, chicken or fish every second day”. In 2017, the latest year for which data is available and which was released by the CSO earlier this week, this was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (18 Dec 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 12 October 2018. WFP is not payable while an applicant is a Qualified Adult (QA) on their spouse's Jobseeker's Allowance. (JSA) The applicant is a qualified adult on their spouse's...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Waiting Times (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Income (WFP ) is an in-work payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. Once awarded, it is payable for 52 weeks, provided the employee does not lose or change their job. My Department is committed to providing a quality service to all its customers. This includes ensuring that applications are processed and that decisions on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit claim for the person concerned is paid up to the 15th December 2018, including payment for all qualified children, and all arrears owing to him have been issued. The claim is medically certified up to the 16th December 2018. If the person concerned remains ill and unfit for work, a further medical certificate should be submitted to the Department as soon as possible in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Payments (18 Dec 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 15 November 2018. The applicant has been awarded WFP with effect from 18 October 2018 to 16 October 2019. The first weekly payment and all arrears owing will issue to their nominated bank...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned has been in receipt of a half-rate carer's allowance (CA) since 13 August 2009 as her husband had been claiming an increase in his jobseeker allowance (JA) in respect of her. Her husband's JA ceased in 2011 and has been in receipt of a state pension contributory (SPC) since 2015 without claiming an increase in respect of his wife. The person concerned sought an increase...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: The information requested (where available) by the Deputy is detailed in the attached tabular statement. Recipients of Carer's Benefit, Carer's Allowance and Carer's Support Grant (formerly Respite Care Grant) at the end of December in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and at 30 November 2018. Cavan Recipients Carer’s Benefit Carer’s Allowance Carer's Support Grant* (Respite...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: Retained fire-fighters who are otherwise unemployed are entitled to a jobseeker’s payment in respect of days that they are engaged in fire-fighting or training, subject to the usual qualification conditions in relation to means or social insurance contributions. They are also required to satisfy the statutory conditions for the receipt of a jobseeker’s payment of being...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: On 23 January last, the Government agreed to allow pensioners, born on or after the 1st September 1946, affected by the 2012 changes in rate bands, to have their state pension (contributory) entitlement calculated under an interim “Total Contributions Approach” (TCA). The changes also provide for up to 20 years of home caring periods in the calculation of that entitlement for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: Community Employment (CE) schemes are typically sponsored by groups known as CE Sponsors wishing to benefit the local community. Such schemes provide a valuable service to local communities, while at the same time, providing training and educational opportunities to job seekers. The tables attached provide details of the number of persons under 25 years of age participating on CE schemes by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is qualified for optical benefit. Under the scheme a free eye examination can be received once every other year, together with either free or subsidised spectacles, depending on personal choice, and repairs to same. Alternatively contact lenses can be chosen instead of spectacles if preferred. Qualified contributors can obtain the required services from opticians...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Treatment Benefit Scheme Payments (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: The optical benefits provided by the Department under the treatment benefit scheme are made available to qualifying customers via a network of opticians who hold contracts with the Department. Opticians contracted to provide these services are paid once per month, in line with the terms of their contract. All optical benefit claims submitted to the Department via the WelfarePartners...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (18 Dec 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. In order to qualify, applicants must show that they are habitually resident in the State, that their means are less...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Non-Contributory) Appeals (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred on 12 December 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: Carer's Benefit Eligibility (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: Carer's Benefit (CARB) is a statutory PRSI-based payment made to a person who leaves the workforce to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. Social welfare legislation provides that it is payable for a maximum of 104 weeks in respect of each person being cared for and there is no provision in legislation for the extension of that period. Carer's Leave, which is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Department makes approximately 79 million social welfare payments per annum of which nearly 42% are via the post office network. Payment via the post office network are governed by the Department’s contract with An Post. This contract sets out the fee rate payable to the company for providing this service to the Department. This is a commercial contract and details of the price...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy is aware, Community Employment (CE) aims to help the long-term unemployed to re-enter the workforce by breaking their cycle of unemployment through a return to a regular work routine and through the provision of training and development. The CE Drug Rehabilitation Programme Framework was implemented in January 2016 and involves a multi-agency approach to rehabilitation and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned has been receiving a half-rate carer's allowance (CA) since 15 September 2016 as her husband was claiming an increase on his jobseeker's allowance in respect of her. As her husband's jobseeker's allowance has ceased on his return to work, the person concerned sought an increase to full rate CA. Because CA is a means-tested payment, her husband's means from employment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (18 Dec 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. In order to qualify, applicants must show that they are habitually resident in the State, that their means are less than...