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

Joan Burton: The person concerned made an application for jobseeker's allowance on 8 August 2011. One of the qualifying conditions for receipt of this payment is that a person satisfies the Habitual Residence Condition. On 22 September 2011 the person concerned was requested to provide certain documentation in support of his application. A decision will be made on receipt of the requested documentation.

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

Joan Burton: The community welfare service (CWS), and the community welfare officers providing it, transferred formally to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. I have been advised that there are no current claims for supplementary welfare allowance in respect of the family concerned. The persons concerned should contact the...

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

Joan Burton: The community welfare service (CWS), and the community welfare officers providing it, transferred formally to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. The person concerned has appealed the decision to refuse rent supplement to the Social Welfare Appeals Office but no decision has been made on her appeal. The Social...

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 26th September 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 5th...

Ministerial Staff (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Deputy Adams was not there.

Ministerial Staff (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Deputy Adams should examine his party's record.

Flood Relief (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Since around 2004 the Department of Social Protection has been responsible for humanitarian assistance. The level of humanitarian assistance is a matter for the Government as a whole but is administered in general by the Department through community welfare officers. The critical issue that Members can assist with is information on people who are in terrible distress. I am aware of that....

Employment Support Services (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I am delighted to have an opportunity to reply to the matter raised by Deputy Mitchell. The JobBridge scheme is the Government's national internship scheme. It will provide up to 5,000 places for those seeking employment, with an internship opportunity of six to nine months in an organisation in the private, public or community and voluntary sectors. During this time participants will...

Employment Support Services (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: We are keeping the scheme under review. It has been extremely successful. We are limited overall to 5,000 places over a two year period but we will continue to examine the eligibility criteria. The scheme is a labour activation measure. We have agreed with the IMF that people who have been on the live register should be given encouragement options to go back to work or to take part in...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The community welfare service (CWS), and the community welfare officers providing it, transferred formally to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. The person concerned has been awarded rent supplement from 1st August 2011. The first payment including arrears was made on 24th October.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Under social welfare legislation any payments received by way of pension are not regarded as reckonable emoluments for the purposes of self-employed Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI). Pension annuities provide a secure means of converting savings into pension income to be paid over the span of the individual's life and thereby avoid the danger that pensioners could exhaust their pension...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Following on from the transfer of the Community Welfare Service from the Health Services Executive (HSE) to the Department of Social Protection, with effect from Saturday 1st October, legislation was commenced which provides that appeals for supplementary welfare allowance (SWA), which includes Mortgage Interest Supplement, are now made to the Social Welfare Appeals Office. Up to now, the...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: As you are aware, pensions are a long-term investment aimed at ensuring that a person has an adequate income in retirement. Government policy supports this aspiration. However, under the provisions of the Pensions Act 1990, if a person with less than two years qualifying service leaves a pension scheme, they are entitled to a refund to the value of their own contributions less tax at the...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: In order for an individual to be eligible to participate in JobBridge, the National Internship Scheme, an individual must: ·be currently in receipt of a live claim (Jobseekers Allowance/Jobseekers Benefit/Signing for Credits) on the Live Register; ·have been in receipt of Jobseekers Benefit, Jobseekers Allowance or signing for Social Insurance Contribution Credits for a total of 78 days or...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: There is no record in the Department of a redundancy claim having been received from the person referenced by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Under the current community employment eligibility guidelines, the person concerned is not eligible to apply for a position on the programme as he is not in receipt of any payment from the Department of Social Protection. He would need to be in receipt of one of the qualifying payments to be eligible or be in receipt of Jobseekers Benefit/Assistance for at least 12 months prior to...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Creating jobs and tackling poverty are two of the key challenges that we face. It is essential that our tax and social protection systems play their part in addressing these issues and ensure that work is worthwhile. To this end, I established an Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare last June. The main rationale for setting up the Advisory Group is to harness expert opinion and...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: In general, the maximum participation limit for community employment is one year with the opportunity to extend for a further year if this is considered by FÁS as the most suitable and cost effective measure to assist the CE participant in gaining employment. A participant may be eligible for different periods of engagement and extensions on CE due to a range of circumstances, including...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The three statutory bodies operating under the aegis of the Department are the Social Welfare Tribunal, the Citizens Information Board and the Pensions Board. In addition, the Office of the Pensions Ombudsman comes under the remit of the Department. Additional information in relation to these bodies is available on the Department's website at www.welfare.ie/EN/AboutUs/Pages/stateagencies.aspx

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I confirm that an application for carer's allowance has been received from the person in question. On completion of the necessary investigations relating to all aspects of her claim a decision will be made and the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome. The average time taken to process a claim to completion, including assessment of the claimant's means and the...