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- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: The type of payments to which the Deputy refers are known as top-up payments and fall into two specific categories. Where a person has an additional income above the rate of supplementary welfare allowance they are, in certain circumstances, allowed to top up their rent as they will have sufficient income to meet their basic needs after paying their rent. The second type of top-up payment...
- Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: The School Meals Programme operated by my Department gives funding towards the provision of food services for disadvantaged children through two schemes. The first is the statutory Urban School Meals scheme, operated by local authorities and part-financed by the Department. The second is the School Meals Local Projects Scheme through which funding is provided directly to participating schools...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 16 April 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. These papers were received in the Social Welfare Appeals Office on 3 May 2011...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: Child benefit is classified as a family benefit under EU Regulations 883/04 and 987/09. These regulations govern entitlement and determine the competent authority to make payment. A parent residing in the Republic and employed in Northern Ireland is entitled to the family benefits provided by Northern Ireland, which consist of child benefit and child tax credit. If the total amount paid is...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 254 and 256 together. An Exceptional Needs Payment is a single payment to help meet essential, once-off, exceptional expenditure, which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income, and can include assistance with funeral expenses. I attach a tabular statement showing the expenditure on funeral expenses under the exceptional...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: Payment of one-parent family payment to the person concerned was disallowed by a deciding officer, having considered all the facts relevant to the case, on the grounds that she and another person are living together as husband and wife and that her means could not be determined as she failed to submit documents requested. The person concerned appealed the decision to the Social Welfare...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 258 and 259 together. I have asked my officials to compile the data sought by the Deputy and will publish it when it becomes available. When that task is completed, I will then examine the implications, if any, of having the equivalent data made available to the House on an ongoing basis. I will communicate with the Deputy in that regard after the recess.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received on 13 April 2011 from the person in question. This application was referred to one of the Department's Medical Assessors who found that her child was not medically eligible for the allowance. The person in question was notified of the decision on 22 June 2011 and has in the last few days notified the Department of her wish to appeal...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: Ordinary employees who have access to the full range of social welfare benefits, including jobseeker's benefit, pay Class A PRSI at the rate of 4%. In addition their employers also make a PRSI contribution of 10.75% in respect of their employees, resulting in the payment of a combined 14.75% rate per employee under full-rate PRSI Class A (for employees earning less that â¬356, the rate of...
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: Under the Redundancy Payments Acts all eligible employees are entitled to a statutory redundancy lump sum payment on being made redundant. The scheme provides that an employee is entitled to two weeks pay for every year of service, plus a bonus week, subject to the prevailing maximum ceiling on gross weekly pay that is currently set at â¬600. The statutory redundancy scheme operated by the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: The administrative arrangements for the 2011 back to school clothing and footwear allowance scheme differ from those that applied in previous years. For this year, the majority of back to school clothing and footwear allowance entitlements were fully automated with no application form required from customers. Those customers who did not receive an automated payment are required to complete an...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: Under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme a travel supplement may be paid where there is a recurring travel expense. The Health Service Executive (HSE) has advised that the person concerned was awarded a travel supplement of â¬30 per week from 27 June 2011 to assist with the cost of visiting her newborn baby in the National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street, Dublin. The HSE has...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has advised that it received the information requested from the person concerned on 15 July 2011 and that her application is currently being processed. The person in question will be notified of the outcome in due course.
- Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: The National Internship Scheme has been set up with a view to giving job seekers the opportunity to take part in a quality internship with a host organisation. A host organisation participating in JobBridge must be in a position to provide a substantial commitment to their intern and to ensure that they are provided with a quality internship. It is considered that many sole traders and...
- Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: In order to be eligible to participate in JobBridge, the national internship scheme, an individual must: - currently be in receipt of a Jobseeker's Allowance/Jobseeker's Benefit or signing for credits on the Live Register, and - have been so for a total of three months or more in the last six months. An individual who does not receive a Jobseeker's Allowance/Benefit payment may therefore...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has advised that the person concerned is in receipt of an exceptional short-term support payment of â¬500 per month in respect of her accommodation needs. The HSE has further advised that it not aware of any issue in relation to the amount currently payable or any issue in relation to arrears. The person concerned should contact the community welfare...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: The person concerned has submitted claims for domiciliary care allowance in respect of two children. In both cases, the child was not considered to satisfy the medical criteria for receipt of the allowance. In the case of an application which is refused on medical grounds, the applicant may submit additional information and/or ask for the case to be reviewed, or they may appeal the decision...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: Payment of the Christmas bonus was discontinued in 2009 and no provision has been made in the Estimates for the payment of a Christmas bonus in 2011. The cost of paying this bonus to the usual categories of recipients would be in the region of â¬231m. In order to consider incurring additional expenditure of this magnitude it would be necessary to introduce measures to achieve corresponding...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received on 18 April 2011 from the person in question. This application was referred to one of the Department's Medical Assessors who found that her child was not medically eligible for the allowance. In order to qualify, a child must have a disability so severe that the child needs care and attention and/or supervision substantially in excess...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jul 2011)
Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 21 March 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. These papers were received in the Social Welfare Appeals Office on 18 May 2011...