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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (8 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is an in-work weekly payment which provides additional financial support to employees on low earnings with children. An application for WFP was received from the person concerned on 16 April 2019. They have been awarded WFP with effect from 11 April 2019 to 08 April 2020. The first weekly payment and all arrears owing will issue to their nominated...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment (8 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is an in-work payment which provides additional financial support to employees on low earnings with children. In order to qualify for WFP an applicant or the applicant and their spouse, partner or cohabitant must be engaged in full-time remunerative employment as an employee. In addition a family's average weekly income must not exceed a fixed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (8 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is in receipt of Supplementary Welfare Allowance since 12 April 2018 at the rate of €201.00 per week. To transfer his claim to his new address he should make an appointment with the Community Welfare Officer at the Health Centre, Maynooth Road, Celbridge. Their phone number is 01-6303196. I trust that this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (8 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: Following a review of this case, local management are happy to offer an extension of participation on the community employment scheme to the person concerned. My officials will contact the community employment sponsor and the participant to advise them of the position.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (8 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: The new address of the person concerned is already known to the Department and updated on all departmental records.  The child benefit payment also continues to issue as normal to the person concerned. By way of information, any person with a verified MyGovid account can update their address using the mywelfare.ie online service by selecting the 'my details' section and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: National Minimum Wage (8 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: The HSE Home Support Service is a matter for the Department of Health and the HSE and I have no role in the matter. It would not be appropriate for to provide a legal interpretation of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000. Alleged breaches of the National Minimum Wage legislation should be taken up with the Workplace Relations Commission directly by the affected parties.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: EU Directives (9 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: The transposition of the IORP II Directive will result in significant improvements to the regulation and governance of funded occupational pension schemes in Ireland. Officials in my Department, supported by the Pensions Authority, have conducted detailed analysis on the implementation of the Directive. The drafting of regulations is at an advanced stage and my Department is working towards...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Industrial Relations (9 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: As Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection I do not have responsibility for this matter. Access to the industrial relations machinery of the State is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation. In addition, my colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, has responsibility for public service pay and pensions. I hope this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Appeals (9 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is an in-work payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. In order to qualify for WFP, an applicant or the applicant and their spouse, partner or cohabitant must be engaged in full-time remunerative employment as an employee for not less than 38 hours per fortnight. An application for WFP was received from the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (9 May 2019)

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. The person concerned has been in receipt of a half-rate CA since 04 October 2012 as her husband has been claiming an...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (9 May 2019)

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 19 March 2019. The application is currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (9 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned does not satisfy the PRSI qualifying conditions for payment of Illness Benefit. One of the qualifying conditions for Illness Benefit is that a person must have 39 weeks of PRSI contributions paid or credited in the relevant tax year, of which 13 must be paid contributions at class A, E, H or P. The person concerned is currently paying class D contributions, which is not a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (9 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a PRSI based payment, made to persons who are providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. An application for CARB was received from the person concerned on 13 March 2019. The application is currently being processed and once completed, the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (9 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: A child benefit supplement payment has been awarded to the person concerned under EU Regulation 883/2004 and payment has been issued to her nominated bank account for lodgement on Tuesday 7th May. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (9 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 29th January 2019. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection These papers were...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (9 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: A policy to introduce the Total Contributions Approach (TCA) to pensions calculation was adopted by Government in the National Pensions Framework in 2010, as was the decision to base the entitlements of all new pensioners on this approach from around 2020. In January 2018, I announced the Government Decision to introduce a new interim Total Contributions Approach (TCA) to the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Eligibility (14 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: Illness benefit is paid for a maximum of 2 years or 624 claim paid days. The person concerned exhausted her entitlement to an Illness Benefit payment on the 5th September 2018. A letter issued to her on the 3rd July 2018 advising her that her entitlement to the payment was about to exhaust and explaining the position in detail to her. In order to requalify for Illness Benefit the person...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (14 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: The free travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme. These include road, rail and ferry services provided by companies such as Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann, as well as Luas and services provided by over 80 private transport operators. There are currently over 939,000...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions Payments (14 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: Since late September 2018, my Department has been examining the social insurance records of approximately 90,000 pensioners, born on or after 1 September 1946, who have a reduced rate State pension contributory entitlement based on post Budget 2012 rate-bands. These payments are being reviewed under a new Total Contributions Approach (TCA) pension calculation which includes provision for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (14 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is currently in receipt of an Illness Benefit payment at a rate of €271 per week. The person concerned was paid Supplementary Welfare Allowance to the 17th April 2019. This payment ceased on award of Illness Benefit. The Illness Benefit claim from the person concerned has been paid up to date and he is medically certified as unfit for work until the 15th August...