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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: Maternity benefit is payable when a woman on maternity leave from work has the required number of paid PRSI contributions/credits on their social insurance record and has paid a class A contribution within 16 weeks of the end of the week in which their baby is due. The three most recent complete calendar years are considered along with the current year when determining eligibility to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (5 Mar 2020)

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 was in receipt of CA for one care recipient only. This payment was in place from 22 May 2014...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that only one appeal by the person concerned was received in that office in respect of Domiciliary Care Allowance. An Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence, decided to allow the appeal by way of a summary decision on 22 January 2020. The person concerned was notified of the Appeals Officer’s decision....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned purporting to be an Angolan national, of a certain name and date of birth, entered the State in or around 2006. He was allocated a Personal Public Service Number (PPSN) and held a Garda National Immigration Bureau Card Stamp 4. The person concerned was in receipt of a Jobseeker’s Allowance payment from January 2014 to January 2019. In September 2018, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: According to the records of my Department, an application for a Back to Education Allowance has not been received from person concerned. It is open to the person concerned to apply for a Back to Education Allowance. He can contact his local Intreo Centre where information is available on all schemes and services offered by my Department. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned was in receipt of a jobseeker payment that included an increase in respect of a Qualified Adult from 5thFebruary 2018 to 28thAugust 2018. Persons in receipt of means-tested payments are obliged to inform the Department of any change in their means or circumstances which may affect the rate of payment. During the course of review of the person's entitlement, it came to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. An increased payment can be made where full-time care is being provided to two people. An application for CARB was received on 14 February 2020 from the person concerned. To qualify the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: In order to qualify for treatment benefit, including optical, dental and hearing aid benefit, a PRSI contributor must satisfy a number of conditions. These include, for those aged between 25 and 65 years, having a total of 260 paid contributions at class A/E/H/P or S since entering insurable employment and having at least 39 reckonable contributions paid or credited in the relevant tax year...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. An increased payment can be made where full-time care is being provided to two people. To qualify the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment conditions, show that they are providing full-time care and attention and must show that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Legislation (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: Increasing pension age, to moderate the increase in pension duration, is a means by which pensions can be made sustainable in the context of increasing longevity.  In order to provide for sustainable pensions and to facilitate a longer working life, legislation passed in 2011 provides for an increase in the State pension age in three separate stages.  In 2014, the State pension age...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, the Department may make a single exceptional needs payment (ENP) to help meet essential, once-off expenditure which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income.  An urgent needs payment (UNP) may be made to persons who may not normally qualify for SWA but who have an urgent need which they...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: My Department has no role in setting the level of pension increases received by members of occupational pension schemes, irrespective of whether those schemes operate in the semi-state sector or private sector.  Pension increases for occupational pensions are entirely a matter for the scheme trustees and the sponsoring employer to whom enquiries should be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: Pensions legislation provides for the supervision and regulation of occupational pension schemes and, in that context, requires defined benefit (DB) schemes to meet the commitments they have made to their members.  The method by which this is regulated is set out in the funding standard. The funding standard provides a benchmark against which the ‘health’ of a scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1167, 1168 and 1173 together. The Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government is the lead Department for severe weather emergencies and the Office of Public Works (OPW) has responsibility for capital flood relief activities.  However, my Department has an important role to play in assisting households in the immediate aftermath of emergency...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: My Department writes to all Public Services Card (PSC) holders, including those entitled to Free Travel, 90 days before their Card expires, inviting them to renew their Card. Customers are offered a choice of renewing by post or by attending an office of the Department. Where a customer applies to have their PSC renewed, the new Card issues a few days before the old card expires. If the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. An increased payment can be made where full-time care is being provided to two people. To qualify the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment conditions, show that they are providing full-time care and attention and must show that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: I am advised that payments received from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal are not exempt for the purposes of assessing the means of a person in determining their eligibility for a social assistance  payment. Where such payments are made, they are treated as capital for means-testing purposes.  The table below outlines the formula used for determining weekly means...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Coronavirus Outbreak (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: There are a number of income supports available to support people required to take time off from work for illness related reasons, including in circumstances of self-isolation. Illness Benefit is, for example, payable to people who self-isolate on medical advice. Income supports are also available to support short-time working and temporary lay-offs., these include Short-time...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Data (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned applied for State pension (contributory) on 5 November 2012 and was awarded a pension at 90% of the maximum rate with effect from their 66th birthday. According to the person's record of social insurance contributions held by my Department at time of award, they had 1,469 qualifying paid and credited contributions from their date of entry into insurable employment in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Health Services Staff Remuneration (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: I am advised that organisations that provide services on behalf of the HSE do so on a contract basis under Section 39 of the Health Act 2004.  Service arrangements are in place between the HSE and all service providers, which clearly set out the obligations of the organisation, the services for which they are engaged by the HSE, and the funding that has been agreed.  As...