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- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the Department by the Health Service Executive as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. The Executive must satisfy itself that a bona fide tenancy exists in respect of a property for which a rent supplement is paid. In this regard the first step in verifying the tenancy is the completion of the appropriate application forms on which...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The following is a tabular statement showing the expenditure on rent supplement at quarterly intervals from 2006 to 2008. Provision has been made for expenditure of â¬461.6m on rent supplement in 2009. Expenditure on Rent Supplement at Quarterly Intervals, 2006 to 2008 Quarter Expenditure â¬000 Quarter 1 2006 96,357 Quarter 2 2006 97,551 Quarter 3 2006 97,104 Quarter 4 2006 97,328...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) and Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance (BSCFA) schemes are administered by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive (HSE) on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. The operational arrangements for the processing of applications and the payment to qualifying individuals, is a matter for the respective...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Department delivers a frontline service through a network of 61 Local Offices and 62 Branch Offices countrywide. Local Offices are staffed by civil servants, whereas Branch Offices operate under a contract for service to the Department. Branch Managers are obliged under their contract to provide sufficient clerical assistance to allow for the efficient performance of the work of the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 938 and 952 together. The person concerned applied for family income supplement on 3 July 2008. Her claim was disallowed on 28 August 2008 by a Deciding Officer of the Department on the grounds that she was not working the required number of hours. An appeal was opened on 17 October 2008 and I am informed by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that the case has...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Department is committed to ensuring that claims are processed and that decisions on entitlement are issued as expeditiously as possible having regard to the eligibility conditions that apply. These conditions vary from scheme to scheme. In some cases there is an unavoidable time lag involved in making the necessary enquiries to enable decisions to be made. Time can also elapse where the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Illness Benefit (formerly know as Disability Benefit) is an income support payment for people of working age who are unable to work due to illness and who satisfy certain social insurance conditions. The scheme was intended to provide income replacement for insured persons during short spells of incapacity or illness, while other payments are available to people who are unable to work...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The principal social welfare payments available to an unemployed person are jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker's allowance. To qualify a person must satisfy certain conditions set out in legislation, including, that the person is unemployed, is capable of work, is available for work and is genuinely seeking work. The Department also offers a range of education and employment supports designed...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the department by the Health Service Executive as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term income support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation, whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Health Service Executive has advised that the payment of supplementary welfare allowance in this case is currently under review with the Executive's Appeals Office. The person concerned will be informed of the Appeals Officer's decision in due course.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Further to my response to PQ 41314/08 on 18 November 2008, which set out the mechanisms by which a decision of an Appeals Officer may be reviewed, I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that no request for such a review has been received from the person concerned. The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an office of the Department that is independently responsible for determining...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The person concerned made a claim for Jobseekers Benefit on 13 February 2008 and sought to have his claim backdated. Under social welfare regulations a claim may only be backdated where the claimant can prove that there was good cause for the delay in making the claim. The Deciding Officer considered that he had not shown good cause to have his claim backdated and payment was duly awarded...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme is administered on behalf of the department by the Health Service Executive. The Executive has advised that it has no record of an application for supplementary welfare allowance from the person concerned. As advised in my reply of 16th December 2008 to the Deputy, the person concerned has been refused rent supplement as she is regarded as not...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme is administered on behalf of the department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive (HSE). The South-Eastern area of the HSE has advised that the person concerned was refused basic SWA in September 2008 on the basis of non disclosure of means. The person concerned has been advised by the HSE that his claim cannot be...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on behalf of the department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive, an exceptional needs payment (ENP) may be made to help meet an essential, once-off cost which the applicant is unable to meet out of his/her own resources. There is no automatic entitlement to this payment. Each application is...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: This department's role is to assist social welfare recipients with heating costs, both through their basic payments and through the household benefits package with fuel, electricity and gas allowances. The national fuel allowance scheme assists householders on long-term social welfare or health service executive (HSE) payments with meeting the cost of their heating needs during the winter...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance (BSCFA) scheme is administered on behalf of the department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. Applications for the allowance may be made between the beginning of June and the end of September each year. The Executive has advised that it has no record of an application for BSCFA from the person concerned for...
- Written Answers — National Carers Strategy: National Carers Strategy (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 953, 979 and 995 together. The development of a National Carers' Strategy is a Government commitment in both the national partnership agreement Towards 2016 and the Programme for Government. A working group, chaired by the Department of An Taoiseach, was established to develop the strategy. My Department provides the secretariat to the working group which...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 954, 984 and 1005 together. Supporting and recognising carers in our society is, and has been, a priority of the Government since 1997. Over that period, weekly payment rates to carers have greatly increased, qualifying conditions for carer's allowance have significantly eased, coverage of the scheme has been extended and new schemes such as carer's benefit...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Travel: Ministerial Travel (27 Jan 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The total amount spent by the Department on foreign travel in 2008 was Euro 263,189. This figure which includes travel and subsistence costs, is provisional pending completion of statutory accounts.