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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The free travel scheme is available to those who live permanently and legally in the State and are over age 66, or are under age 66 and in receipt of certain qualifying payments. As at 4 September 2020, there were forty (40) free travel applications waiting to be processed. The current average turnaround time for free travel applications is less than 1 week. The SAFE registration...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I can confirm that my Department has allocated a Personal Public Service Number (PPSN) to the individual referred to by the Deputy and a letter advising her of her PPSN issued on 7th September 2020. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I can confirm that my Department has allocated Personal Public Service Numbers (PPSNs) to the two individuals referred to by the Deputy and letters advising them of their PPSNs issued on 28th July 2020 and 2nd September 2020 respectively. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Community Employment (CE) is a positive initiative that enables the long-term unemployed to contribute to their communities whilst up-skilling themselves for prospective future employment. It helps to break the cycle of unemployment and improve a person’s chances of returning to the labour market. In early 2019, the Government agreed to establish an Interdepartmental Group (IDG) to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: My Department's focus is on ensuring that the State provides the appropriate employment services to assist in attaining sustainable employment. Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19 my Department engaged external consultants to review all current contracted public employment services. The consultant's review of contracted Public Employment Services is currently being finalised. In accordance...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 754 to 757, inclusive, together. All social welfare schemes are subject to control and compliance checks in order to ensure that the Exchequer resources provided for those schemes are protected. The pandemic unemployment payment (PUP) scheme is subject to conditionality, in particular the requirement to be resident in Ireland to receive the payment under the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: 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 8 July 2019. The application was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned is in receipt of disability allowance (DA) since 15 October 2002. Following a review of his entitlement in August 2018 it was found that he had means from employment not previously disclosed to the Department. Based on his earnings, it was decided that this gentleman was entitled to a lower rate of DA than the rate he had received resulting in an overpayment. Accordingly,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: As the Deputy will be aware, I have asked my officials to amend the regulations so that people on jobseeker's payments who wish to travel to any of the countries on the green list can do so and continue to receive their payment. For countries that are not on the green list, persons can travel for essential reasons only. For example, if someone is going to a non-green list country, it must be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Offices (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The State property portfolio is managed by the OPW, with accommodation allocated to Departments based on business and operational needs. I am advised that the vacancy rate across OPW's office portfolio, including this Department, is of the order of 1%. My Department has more than 6,500 staff operating in 221 locations, including 13 main offices and 75 Intreo Centres. Although all...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ministerial Advisers (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The appointment of Special Advisors is as provided under Section 11 of the Public Service Management Act 1997. Guidelines for the Appointment of Ministerial Staff of the 33rdDáil, including the relevant terms and conditions of appointment of Special Advisers, were approved by Government on 4th August 2020 and have been published by the Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The estimated full year cost of increasing each weekly social welfare scheme by €1 and €5 per week is as follows; Scheme Full year cost of a €1 increase (€m) Full year cost of a €5 increase (€m) Social Insurance Schemes Pension Payments ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 766 and 767 together. As part of a suite of measures announced in the July Stimulus, the Pandemic Unemployment Payment will now be extended to April 2021. By week-ending Friday, 11th September 2020, the PUP scheme will have cost an estimated €3.44 billion. The cost of PUP in the period between September and December 2020, and up to April...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The COVID 19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment was introduced in March 2020 as a time-limited emergency measure to meet the surge in unemployment which resulted from the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. To be eligible for this payment a person must have been in employment /self-employment immediately prior to 13th March 2020 and have become fully unemployed or suffered a collapse of income if...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Information on Inflows and Outflows for the pandemic unemployment payment each week since June 29th 2020 are set out in the table below PUP payment date Inflow Outflow Net 30 June 4,423 31,368 - 26,945 07 July 5,326 31,400 -26,074 14 July 3,606 70,812...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: On Tuesday September 1st, 224,956 people received a Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP). Of those, 58,115 received a €203 payment, and the remaining 166,841 people received a €350 payment. As outlined at www.gov.ie/en/publication/0b0fc-covid-19-pandemic-unemployme nt-payment-rates-from-17-september-2020/ , from September 17th, the PUP will be paid at three rates. While...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The emergency Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment has been introduced as a time-limited emergency measure so that payments can be made as quickly as possible to the large number of people who have become fully unemployed due to the pandemic. Individuals who were working and were also in receipt of any social welfare payment such as a Carer's Payment, Working Family Payment (WFP) or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 772 and 773 together. Rent supplement continues to play a key role in supporting families and individuals in private rented accommodation, with the scheme currently supporting 19,600 recipients; of which there are 6,000 cases receiving payment under the enhanced rent supplement criteria provided during the Covid pandemic. The scheme provides short-term...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Enhanced (COVID) Illness Benefit was introduced on March 9th2020. To date, enhanced (COVID) Illness Benefit has been received by 46,813 customers. The number of customers currently receiving enhanced (COVID) Illness Benefit is 1,147 at 27 August 2020. I trust this clarifies the position for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: An age related jobseeker’s allowance rate of €112.70 generally applies to young jobseekers aged 18-24 to incentivise them to engage in education or training to improve their chances of obtaining full time sustainable employment. Where a young jobseeker participates in education or training they can receive the maximum weekly personal rate of €203. The Youth...