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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Data (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Work is ongoing in my Department to tackle false self-employment across the economy. In that regard I am currently reallocating resources to this issue to understand, measure and quantify better the prevalence of false self-employment and obtain a sectoral analysis of its level of incidence. My Department is already focussed on increasing the number of employer inspections it conducts...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Code of Practice is currently being reviewed by an Interdepartmental Group comprising the WRC, Department of Finance, Revenue and this Department. A substantial revision is nearing completion, at which time it will be shared with ICTU and IBEC through the Labour Employer Economic Forum (LEEF) structure for observations. This revised Code draws heavily on case law that has emerged since...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The means test for Carer's Allowance is one of the most generous means tests in the social welfare system, most notably with regard to spouse’s earnings. Since April 2008, the income disregard has been €332.50 per week for a single person and €665 per week for a couple. This means that a couple can earn in the region of €37,500 and qualify for the maximum rate of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's Allowance is a means-tested payment for carers who look after certain people in need of full-time care and attention on a full time basis. As of end of July 2019, there were 82,015 people in receipt of Carer's Allowance. The projected expenditure on Carer's Allowance in 2019 is almost €840 million. A primary qualifying condition for the Carer’s Allowance payment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: My Department is committed to providing a quality service to all of its customers. This includes ensuring that scheme applications are processed and decisions on entitlement made as quickly as possible. Like all Government Departments and agencies, the Department is required to operate within a staff ceiling figure and a commensurate administrative staffing budget. However, I can assure...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The information requested by the Deputy, where available, is provided the following tabular statements. 2019 (January to end-August) Scheme Registered Awarded Disallowed Pending State Pension Non-Contributory 6,183 5,330 1,497 1,641 State Pension Contributory 27,548 14,297 9,486 6,509 Widow(er)'s Contributory Pension 5,204 4,026 751 427 Jobseeker's Allowance 85,606 69,377...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Data (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The figures requested by the Deputy are provided in the table below. Number of applications received for Widow's, Widower's, or Surviving Civil Partner's Contributory Pensions, 2014 to date. Year Registered 2014 7,390 2015 7,707 2016 7,699 2017 7,599 2018 7,542 to end-August 2019 5,204

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions Data (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 157 and 158 together. The information requested by the Deputy is detailed in the attached tabular statements. Table 1: State Pension Non-Contributory claims received, awarded, rejected withdrawn and pending at the end of December in each of the years 2016 - 2018 and up to the end of August 2019. Registered Awarded Rejected Withdrawn Pending 2016 9,213...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. The number of Domiciliary Care Allowance appeals registered in 2019 to the end of August was 1,164 and the number finalised was 1,054. For the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. The figures in the table below cover all current “live appeals” at various stages of the appeals process, including those with the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Redeployment (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: My Department is committed to providing a quality service to all its customers. This includes ensuring that applications are processed and that decisions on entitlement are made as quickly as possible. The staffing needs for all areas within the Department are continuously reviewed, taking account of workloads, management priorities and the ongoing need to respond to new increasing...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: International Agreements (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Ireland has negotiated Bilateral Social Security Agreements with 10 countries. The main purpose of these Agreements is to protect the pension rights of people who have worked and paid social security contributions in Ireland and the countries with which Ireland has such agreements. This is achieved by allowing reckonable social security contributions paid in one or more of these countries to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (25 Sep 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. I confirm that my department received an application for CA from the person concerned on 2 September 2019. The application...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Applications (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 165 and 166 together. The person concerned was awarded a maximum rate widow's, widower's and surviving civil partner's contributory pension with effect from 26 July 2019. Payment has issued to the person's nominated account in a financial institution and all due arrears have been paid. Fuel allowance is a means-tested payment to assist householders on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (26 Sep 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 July 2019. Means are any income belonging to the carer...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (26 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly in work payment which provides additional financial support to employees on low earnings with children relative to family size. The person concerned recently resumed paid employment as an employee. Following receipt of requested employment details from their current employer, WFP has been reinstated to the person concerned with effect to 01 January...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (26 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is a service which supports people who are long-term unemployed to secure and sustain full time paid employment. Two companies, Seetec and Turas Nua, have been contracted by my Department to deliver the service. The JobPath employment service commenced in 2015 and, under the terms of the contracts signed with the providers was to run for at least six years comprising two...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's Allowance and Carer’s Benefit are payments for carers who look after certain people in need of full-time care and attention on a full time basis. As of end of August 2019, there were 82,233 people in receipt of Carer's Allowance and 2,967 beneficiaries of Carer's Benefit. The projected combined expenditure on Carer's Allowance and Carer’s Benefit in 2019 is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 16 September 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. When these papers are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Data (26 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Back to Education Allowance Scheme (BTEA) is designed to support second chance education. It enables eligible persons to pursue education and to continue to receive income support for the duration of a course of study. The weekly rate of payment is linked to the persons' underlying payment, for example jobseekers allowance, and all budget increases in these rates are applied to BTEA...