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Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: Currently, there are 1,143 community employment schemes in operation nationally with 23,300 places of which there are circa 22,000 participants. The overall estimated budget stands at €315 million for 2012. The training and materials grant for Community Employment is based on receipted eligible expenditure. The maximum training and materials grant for Community Employment will reduce from...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: To qualify for farm assist, a person should be aged between 18 and 66 years and engaged in farming. The person concerned must be farming land for the purposes of husbandry and must also satisfy the other conditions of the scheme including a means test. In this context, husbandry is regarded as working the land including the keeping of livestock. All cases are fully investigated and...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: A completed review form for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received from the person concerned on 24th September 2010. It was referred to one of the Department's Medical Assessors who found that the child was no longer medically eligible for DCA. A letter issued on 20th November 2010 refusing the allowance. The person concerned subsequently lodged an appeal against this decision. He...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: A completed review form for domiciliary care allowance was received from the person concerned on 17th January 2011. This form was referred to one of the Department's Medical Assessors who found that the child was no longer medically eligible for the allowance. A letter issued on 26th January 2011 advising of the decision. The person concerned subsequently lodged an appeal against this...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (31 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 17th 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 05th...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the disability allowance claim, of the person concerned, was disallowed by a Deciding Officer following an assessment by a Medical Assessor of the Department who expressed the opinion that she was medically unsuitable for disability allowance. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an appeal was registered on 22 October...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The payment rates for long-term social insurance-based payments such as invalidity pension, widow/widower's contributory pension and state pension (contributory) are normally higher than the analogous social assistance based payments such as disability allowance. The higher rates reflect the fact that entitlement to long-term social insurance payments is based on PRSI contributions made by...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (31 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 24th January 2012. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When received, the appeal in question will be referred in due course to an Appeals...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The National Internship Scheme provides internship opportunities of either 6 or 9 months for unemployed individuals on the Live Register, in organisations in the private, public and community/voluntary sectors. The scheme is limited to individuals who are currently on the Live Register and have been in receipt of Jobseeker's Allowance/Benefit or are signing on for credits for at least 3 of...

Written Answers — Insolvency Payments Scheme: Insolvency Payments Scheme (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The insolvency payments scheme is a scheme to protect pay-related entitlements of employees whose employer has become legally insolvent as defined in the scheme. Some limitation and conditions apply to payments made under the scheme. All entitlements based on pay are limited to a maximum weekly rate which is revised periodically. Awards made by a rights commissioner are subject to these...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the invalidity pension claim, of the person concerned, was disallowed by a Deciding Officer following an assessment by a Medical Assessor of the Department who expressed the opinion that he was medically unsuitable for invalidity pension. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an appeal was registered on 12 December 2011...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: I confirm than an application for carer's allowance has been received from the person concerned. 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 award a claim for carer's allowance for quarter ended Sept 2011 was 17 weeks, and not the 30 weeks...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the appeal from the person concerned was registered in that Office on 1 April 2011 and, in accordance with the statutory procedures the relevant department papers and the comments of the Deciding Officer on the matters raised in the appeal were sought and received on 13th April. The case was referred to an Appeals Officer on 17th May who...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: Due to the current economic circumstances and the need for the Department of Social Protection to find savings of €475 million in Budget 2012, it was necessary to examine all aspects of Departmental expenditure. This has resulted in the following changes being made to the Community Employment (CE) scheme, which were announced as part of Budget 2012: 1. A reduction in the training and...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: Applications for domiciliary care allowance were received from the person concerned in respect of two children on 13th May 2011. These applications were referred to one of the Department's Medical Assessors who found that the children were not medically eligible for the allowance. She was notified of the decision on 19th August 2011 and has since appealed the decisions. Currently, one...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: There are currently 24,101 persons in receipt of Domiciliary Care Allowance in (DCA) in respect of 25,914 children. A breakdown of the persons in receipt of the allowance on a county basis is not available. DCA cases are routinely reviewed to ensure that the conditions for receipt of the payment continue to be met. Cases are reviewed based on either: · A scheduled review based on the...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: A redundancy lump sum claim in respect of the person concerned was recently awarded. A cheque payment issued directly to the person concerned.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (31 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 — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all the evidence, disallowed the appeal of the person concerned by way of summary decision. Under Social Welfare legislation, the decision of the Appeals Officer is final and conclusive and may only be reviewed by the Appeals Officer in the light of new evidence or new facts. Following the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (31 Jan 2012)

Joan Burton: The disability allowance claim of the person concerned was disallowed by a Deciding Officer following an assessment by a Medical Assessor of the Department who expressed the opinion that he was medically unsuitable for the allowance. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an appeal was registered on 24 January 2012 and in accordance with the statutory procedures the...