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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The community welfare service (CWS), and the community welfare officers providing it, formally transferred to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. Departmental records show that the person concerned is currently in receipt of a weekly supplementary welfare allowance payment.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (19 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Full individualisation of personal payments within the social welfare system would involve separate and independent treatment of persons in relation to means and other conditions of entitlement and separate payments to each. There are no plans to introduce full such payments in relation to means tested or social insurance payments. However, over the years my Department has introduced various...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (19 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The family income supplement (FIS) is designed to provide income for employees on low earnings with families. This preserves the incentive to remain in employment in circumstances where the employee might only be marginally better off than if he or she were unemployed and claiming other social welfare payments. To qualify for payment of FIS, a person must be engaged in full-time insurable...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (19 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 6 August 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 17 August...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The community welfare service (CWS), and the community welfare officers providing it, formally transferred to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. Departmental records show that the person concerned is currently in receipt of a weekly supplementary welfare allowance payment at the rate appropriate to his family...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (19 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 5 October 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Social Welfare Services on the grounds of appeal be sought. When received, the appeal in question will be referred to an Appeals Officer for...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (19 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I have already indicated to this House that I wish to review and consider improvements to the operation of a number of programmes and initiatives funded by the Department of Social Protection to support people who are unemployed to get back into work, further training and/or education. Matters relating to extending the current eligibility criteria to those that are not in receipt of a social...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: At the end of December 2010 there were 17,974 people in receipt of mortgage interest supplement, an increase of 337% over the 2007 figure. There are currently over 18,500 households benefiting from the scheme for which €77.2m has been allocated for 2011. The Department's review of the administrative, policy and legal aspects of the mortgage interest supplement scheme was published in July...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (19 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Anyone who is unemployed is eligible to apply for the work placement programme. There is no necessity to be in receipt of a payment from the Department of Social Protection.

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (19 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The closing date for transferring work placement programme participant placements to the JobBridge programme was 31 August 2011. Applications received after this date will not be accepted.

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (19 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: At present the company referred to has a total of eight internships under the JobBridge scheme.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (19 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Legislative changes were introduced to the One-Parent Family Payment (OFP) in the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2010. These came into effect on 27 April, 2011. The former OFP scheme provided long-term income support to lone parents until their youngest child was aged 18, or 22 if in full-time education, without any requirement for them to engage in education, training or...

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: There has been a dramatic rise in the level of mortgage arrears in the past two years and the trend continues. Some 45,000 households are more than 90 days behind with their mortgage payments and another 56,000 households have already been forced to restructure their loans due to difficulties in making repayments. This is the legacy of the previous Fianna Fáil-led Government, which failed...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The jobseeker's schemes provide income support for people who are seeking their first job or have lost work and are seeking alternative employment. A fundamental qualifying condition for both the jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker's allowance is that a person must be available for and genuinely seeking full-time work. To satisfy this condition, it is necessary for the person to demonstrate...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the appeal from the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer who proposes to hold an oral hearing in this case. There has been a very significant increase in the number of appeals received by the Social Welfare Appeals Office since 2007 when the intake was 14,070 to 2010 when the intake rose to 32,432. This has significantly...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 12 October 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Department on the grounds of appeal be sought. When received, the appeal in question will be referred to an Appeals Officer for consideration....

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The person concerned was one of the 127,000 households who received an automated back to school clothing and footwear allowance payment in 2011. A cheque payment issued to her on the 24th June 2011.

Written Answers — Money Advice and Budgeting Service: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I refer the Deputy again to my response to question number 240 on the 27th September 2011 and my further response to question number 317 of the 4th October 2011 in this regard. As advised, a proposal to establish a joint Citizens Information Centre (CIC) and Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) office in Killarney is currently being considered by the Citizens Information Board, who has...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The current operational guidelines for the household benefits scheme specify that: - On entry to a nursing home/hospital a client loses entitlement to household benefits from the end of the billing period in which he/she entered the nursing home/hospital. If they return home and reapply for the schemes within six months the schemes can be backdated to the date that the schemes were...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (20 Oct 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 June 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Department on the grounds of appeal be sought. These papers were received in the Social Welfare Appeals Office on 6 October 2011 and the appeal has...