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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The person concerned is in receipt of her full entitlement to rent supplement based on her household circumstances. She has been assessed based on the information provided to the Department regarding the earnings of the family unit as a whole. If the person concerned wishes to appeal the decision she may do so to the Social Welfare Appeals Office.

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: A lump sum claim in respect of the person concerned was received electronically on 12 October 2011. However, a completed paper claim form, signed by both the employer and the employee, is required in order to validate the claim so that the claim can be processed. This is awaited.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 4 October 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 27...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 31 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 24...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 24 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 29 August...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The person concerned has been requested to provide additional information in support of her application for one parent family payment. A decision will be made on her application when she furnishes all documents requested. Her application for supplementary welfare allowance was refused because she failed to provide information requested. The person concerned has appealed this decision to the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The social insurance record in respect of the person concerned for 2009, which is the governing year for benefit in 2011, is incomplete. It is not possible, therefore, to pay Jobseeker's Benefit until this matter is clarified. A Social Welfare Inspector is investigating the class and number of social insurance contributions paid by her in 2009 while she was employed by a company which has...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (29 Nov 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 — Unemployment Levels: Unemployment Levels (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: According to the latest data available within my Department there are 22,474 customers who are classified as being currently involved in self-employment. These figures are made up of 11,720 customers who are in receipt of Farm Assist and 10,754 who are receiving a Jobseeker's payment and engaged in self-employment. In addition, there are a further 5,331 customers who are in receipt of either...

Written Answers — Departmental Equipment: Departmental Equipment (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: My Department or the agencies under its aegis do not lease computer servers. While they are not the subject of a lease agreement, there are 30 servers provided to the Department with a total capacity of 10,110 gigabytes under an outsourced managed services agreement. The servers are spread across two sites, a live environment and a disaster recovery environment. The capacity of each server...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 29 October 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 11...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The legislative basis which provides for the introduction of the Partial Capacity Benefit scheme is contained in the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2010, which was enacted by the Oireachtas in December 2010. The Partial Capacity Benefit scheme will be open to people who are in receipt of Invalidity Pension (IP) or who have been in receipt of Illness Benefit (IB) for a minimum...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned has been registered. 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 09 November 2011 and the appeal will,...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: Domiciliary care allowance can be paid to qualified child until their 16th birthday. The child in question turned sixteen on 11th September 2011 and as a result the allowance stopped. Notification of the allowance ceasing was issued to the customer on 29th June 2011.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The person concerned is in receipt of half-rate carer's allowance, along with an invalidity pension. Where a care recipient is under 16 years of age and qualifies for a domiciliary care allowance, they are deemed to satisfy the medical conditions for carer's allowance. However, once the child reaches 16 years old and no longer qualifies for domiciliary care allowance, the carer's allowance...

Written Answers — Live Register: Live Register (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: Issues associated with the creation of employment opportunities are for my colleague the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in the first instance. However, as part of the overall Government approach to unemployment, the Department of Social Protection operates a range of employment support measures designed to encourage and support social welfare recipients of working age to reduce...

Written Answers — Work Placement Initiatives: Work Placement Initiatives (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: Tús is a community work placement initiative which will provide up to 5,000 short-term, quality work opportunities for those who are unemployed for more than a year when fully operational. This initiative is being delivered through the network of local development companies nationally and by Údarás na Gaeltachta in Gaeltacht areas – referred to as Implementing Bodies. Expressions of...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The average time taken to award a claim for carer's allowance to end Sept 2011 was 14 weeks. A total of 15,514 applications were registered to end Oct 2011 and 11,684 were processed in the same period. Some 7,935 applications are awaiting a decision at present. Approximately 51,000 carer's allowance claims are in payment. I acknowledge that the time taken to process carer's allowance claims...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The Department is currently reviewing the entitlement to back to school allowance in this case and will advise the person concerned of its decision in due course.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer having fully considered all the available evidence disallowed the appeal of the person concerned by way of a summary decision. The person concerned has been notified of the Appeals Officers decision. Under Social Welfare legislation, the decision of the Appeals Officer is final and conclusive and may only be reviewed...