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Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (24 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 13 August 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, in due course, to an Appeals...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (24 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 18th 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 25th...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (24 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The Community Employment programme provides a very important and valued contribution to social employment, training and progression for unemployed people. Furthermore, many Community Employment schemes provide vital community services right across the country. There are currently 1,143 CE schemes in operation nationally with 23,300 participants. The overall estimated budget stands at...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (24 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 11th January 2012. 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 in due course to an Appeals...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (24 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 14th January 2012. 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 — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (24 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: A new redundancy payment processing system went live on 3 October, and publication of figures on the Department's website was suspended while this system was being tested and implemented. The delay in publishing the figures is regretted. However, priority was given to the processing of rebate claims to employers and lump sum payments to employees. Up to date figures in relation to claims...

Written Answers — Public Sector Reform: Public Sector Reform (24 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The three statutory bodies operating under the aegis of the Department are the Citizens Information Board, the Pensions Board and the Social Welfare Tribunal. In addition, the Office of the Pensions Ombudsman comes under the remit of the Department. The Citizens Information Board The Citizens Information Board (CIB) is the statutory body responsible for supporting the provision of...

Written Answers — Public Sector Reform: Public Sector Reform (24 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The report on Public Service Reform proposes the integration of the regulatory functions of the Pensions Board with the Financial Regulator and the merging of the Pensions Ombudsman with the Financial Services Ombudsman. These proposed rationalisations are the subject of a critical review which is to be completed by the end of June 2012. This review will include identifying any potential...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (24 Jan 2012)

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 but it does not have a board. Social Welfare Tribunal The Social Welfare Tribunal consists of a Chairperson and four ordinary members. It holds...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (25 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: Tús, the community work placement initiative introduced during 2011, will provide short-term, quality work opportunities for those who are unemployed for more than a year when fully operational. As of 20 January 2012, 2,395 persons are engaged with 5,000 to be employed when Tús is fully operational later this Spring. Tús is focused on those people who are on the live register for 12...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that it has not received an appeal from the person concerned. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions on social welfare entitlements.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Jan 2012)

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 and 2011 when the intake rose to 32,432 and 31,241...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (25 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: All CE schemes nationally including those in the Dublin Central area have been contacted and have received material relating to Community Employment review.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received on 20th June 2011. This application was referred to one of the Department's Medical Assessors who found that the child was not medically eligible for the allowance. A letter issued on 19th September 2011 advising of the decision. In the case of an application which is refused on medical grounds, the applicant may submit additional...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 3rd January 2012. 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...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 19th December 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 in due course to an...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The average time taken to award a claim for carer's allowance in the quarter ending Sept 2011 was 17 weeks. The average time to award for the last quarter of 2011 is unavailable as, due to the phased introduction of a new claims processing system in the carer's allowance area, new claims are being processed on the new system while older claims are still being processed on the old system. As...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (25 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: Community Employment schemes provide a very important and valued contribution to social employment, training and progression for unemployed people. Furthermore, many Community Employment schemes provide vital community services right across the country. There are currently 1,143 CE schemes in operation nationally with 23,300 participants. I have protected the number of places on CE so that...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received on 12 January 2012. This application has been forwarded to one of the Department's Medical Assessors for their medical opinion. Upon receipt of this opinion, a decision will issue to the customer. The Deputy should note that, currently, it can take up to nine weeks to process a DCA application.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The Department does not maintain processing times in relation to files prepared for submission to the Social Welfare Appeals Office (SWAO). However, according the SWAO annual reports, of the time taken to process appeals, the number of weeks attributable to the Department were as follows - 2006 – 8 weeks 2007 – 10 weeks 2008 – 9 weeks 2009 – 10.5 weeks 2010 – 12.7 weeks 2011 –...