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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (1 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The fuel allowance is a payment of €24.50 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €686 each year) from October to April, to over 352,000 low income households, at an estimated cost of €261.35 million in 2020.  The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs.  The allowance represents a contribution towards the energy costs of a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme (1 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The back to school clothing and footwear allowance scheme provides a once-off payment to eligible families to assist with the costs of clothing and footwear when children start or return to school each autumn.  The allowance is payable for eligible children between the ages of 4 and 17 in respect of whom a qualified child increase is being paid.  It is also payable to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (1 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The number of people receiving a Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) by the payable rate for the week ending 2nd October 2020 is set out in Table 1. The total gross inflow (that is, new PUP claimants) to the PUP for each week since restrictions were introduced for Dublin and Donegal are set out in Table 2. The net weekly change, that is inflows to PUP less outflows...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (1 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned made a claim for Jobseekers Benefit on 4/8/2020 which was disallowed on 29/09/2020 as follows:  To qualify for Jobseeker's a person must be available for full-time work. The reason for this decision is that the person concerned is registered with Hibernian College, and is expected to complete an average of 37 hours study per week. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (1 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Community Employment (CE) programme is a community centred labour market initiative established for the purposes of social inclusion and activation, to help long-term unemployed people and other vulnerable groups to enter the workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment. In early 2019, the Government agreed to establish an Interdepartmental Group (IDG) to explore how social...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (1 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Since the introduction of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment scheme in March, approximately 750,000 people have applied for payment and in some cases, they have done so on a number of occasions as they moved in and out of employment. Consequently, there are over 1 million applications to be examined to determine if arrears are due. During the month of March, my Department received and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (1 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The information requested by the Deputy cannot be provided within the timeframe available. The Department is now seeking to compile the data sought by the Deputy and will provide the relevant information directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (1 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Fuel allowance is a means-tested payment to assist householders on long-term social welfare payments towards the cost of their heating needs.  The main eligibility conditions that apply to the fuel allowance scheme are that a person must be in receipt of a qualifying payment, must satisfy a means test and must either be living alone or with other qualifying persons.  According to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (1 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: No application for Fuel allowance has been received form the person concerned.  I have arranged for a fuel application form to issue to the person concerned.  On receipt of the completed application, eligibility for fuel allowance will be examined and the person will be notified in writing of the decision. Fuel allowance is a means-tested payment to assist householders on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension (1 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: A person claiming Widow's, Widower's or Surviving Civil Partner's Contributory Pension must provide evidence they are the legal widow, widower or surviving civil partner.  Where the marriage took place outside the state, the person must provide the original marriage certificate as evidence. The person concerned provided a sworn affidavit as to marriage;...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Employees and self-employed people who lose their employment as a consequence of the pandemic may apply for the Pandemic Unemployment Payment.  The scheme has been extended until the end of March 2021 to support employees and businesses that continue to be impacted by the pandemic.  I have also secured agreement that the scheme will remain open to new applicants until the end...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (1 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: JobPath provides the long term unemployed an employment service. This service seeks to support the long-term unemployed to obtain and sustain paid employment. The service is delivered by two companies, Turas Nua Limited and Seetec Limited on behalf of my Department.  Between July 2015 and the end of August 2020, some 276,149 jobseekers had engaged with the JobPath service. This...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Deaths (6 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Part 5 of the Civil Registration Act 2004, as amended, provides the legal framework for the registration of deaths. Currently, the obligation to register a death rests with the relatives of the deceased, or in their absence, other persons specified in the Act. A death must be registered within three months of the date of death. Other than the obligation to register a death, there are no...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (6 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 492, 504 and 505 together. My Department’s Back to Education Allowance (BTEA) provides income support for jobseekers and certain others in receipt of social welfare payments who pursue full-time courses of education at second or third level. The main focus of the allowance is to assist qualifying applicants to improve their educational qualifications...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (6 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Under the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020 (No. 1), the Government, having regard to the manifest and grave risk to human life and public health posed by the spread of Covid-19, extended the Social Welfare Acts to provide for entitlement to illness benefit for persons who have been diagnosed with, or are a probable source of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (6 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Redundancy Payments Act 1967, as amended, provides for the making of payments by employers to employees in respect of redundancy. It is the employer’s responsibility to pay statutory redundancy payments to all eligible employees. In the event that an employer is unable to pay due to financial difficulties, an application for payment from the Social Insurance Fund may be submitted...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (6 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: As announced in the July Stimulus package, the enterprise support grant was extended to assist eligible self-employed, including sole traders, who exit the COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment or jobseekers schemes after 18th May 2020 to re-start their business which was closed due to the impact of the pandemic. Funding of €12 million has been provided for this grant. Since the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (6 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Pandemic Unemployment Payment in respect of the person concerned has now been re-rated to a rate of €250 per week, based on their 2019 self-employed returns. Arrears due from 26/06/2020 will issue next week.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (6 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The fuel allowance is a payment of €24.50 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €686 each year) from October to April, to an average of 352,000 low income households, at an estimated cost of €261.35 million in 2020. The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs. The allowance represents a contribution towards the energy costs of a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (6 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table. Table 1: PUP recipients by rate payable week ending 3rd October 2020 € € € Sector €203 €250 €300 A Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing 720 488 1,555 B Mining...