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Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (12 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: Budget 2009 provided for improvements in all weekly personal, qualified adult and qualified child rates of payment as well as improvements in family income supplement, back to school clothing and footwear allowance and the national fuel scheme. The amount provided in Budget 2009 for these improvements was €503 million.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (12 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: Disability Allowance is a weekly Allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged over 16 and under 66. The disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, a means test and a habitual residency test. Habitual Residency is intended to convey a degree of permanence of residing in a country, evidence by a regular...

Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (12 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: There is no record of an application for a PPS number having been made by the person concerned. Applications for PPS numbers are generally dealt with on the day the person attends the particular PPS Centre.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The person concerned was refused jobseeker's allowance on 3 February 2009. The deciding officer, having examined all the circumstances, considered that the person concerned did not satisfy the habitual residence condition as her centre of interest within Ireland and future intentions to remain in Ireland have not been clearly established, in view of her employment record here or any...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: In order to qualify for a range of Social Welfare payments, including Child Benefit, applicants are required to satisfy the Habitual Residence condition (HRC) which was introduced on 1 May 2004. The HRC requires the applicant to satisfy the deciding officer that they meet certain conditions, including that their centre of interest is in Ireland and that their future intentions, as...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: Disability Allowance is a weekly Allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged over 16 and under 66. The disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, a means test and a habitual residency test. The person concerned was awarded Disability Allowance on 2 October 1996 and is currently receiving the weekly...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: Invalidity pension is a payment for people who are permanently incapable of work because of an illness or incapacity and who satisfy certain social insurance (PRSI) contributions. To qualify for an invalidity pension a person must have a total of 260 weeks' PRSI contributions paid and 48 weeks PRSI paid or credited in the last complete tax year prior to application. The Department records...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The person concerned was in receipt of Jobseekers Allowance at the weekly rate of €197.80 up to 19th August, 2008. Payment was suspended on that date on receipt of information that the person was no longer living at his stated address. He failed to make contact with the office and the claim was subsequently closed. The person made a new application for Jobseekers Allowance on 21st...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (17 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: According to the Central Statistics Office, it is estimated that supplementary pension coverage for workers in general was 54% in the first quarter of 2008 and, for the key target group, those aged 30 years and over, stood at 61%. Almost all Irish public sector workers are members of occupational pension schemes. When public sector workers are removed from the coverage figures above, it can...

Written Answers — Death Certificates: Death Certificates (17 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The administration of the Civil Registration Service is statutorily a matter for the Registrar General. I have had enquiries made with the Registrar General and he has informed me that the position is as follows: When a person dies, it is the duty of a relative of the deceased to act as qualified informant. This means that the relative must give to a registrar of births, deaths and...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: A total of 441,168 PPS numbers were issued to non-EU nationals from mid-June 2000 to end of January 2009 of which 37,195 issued in 2008 and 2,533 were issued in January 2009. The majority of applications for a PPS numbers are from people living in the State. A small number of PPS numbers are issued to people residing outside the State. These numbers are issued mainly, to people applying...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (17 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The policy in relation to SSIAs and social welfare payments has not been changed in recent times. In assessing means for social assistance purposes, account is taken of any cash income the person may have, together with the value of capital and property (except the family home). Capital may include the following: Stocks and shares of every description, which are assessed according to their...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The claim for disability allowance, by the person concerned, was refused by a Deciding Officer of the Department on 25 August 2008 on the grounds that he did not satisfy the statutory means assessment for eligibility to this allowance. An appeal was opened on 24 September 2008 and I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that the case was considered by an Appeals Officer on 24...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the department by the Health Service Executive as part of the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme. Expenditure on rent supplement was €392m in 2007 and €441m in 2008. The following tabular statement shows the number of recipients of rent supplement by county and Dublin postal codes at the end of 2008. Recipients of Rent Supplement...

Written Answers — Family Support Services: Family Support Services (17 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 341 and 355 together. The Family Support Agency provides funding through a Scheme of Grants to voluntary and community organisations providing marriage and relationship counselling, marriage preparation courses, child counselling in relation to parental separation and bereavement counselling and support on the death of a family member. The focus of the scheme...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The Family Income Supplement (FIS) is designed to provide support for people with families who are on low earnings. This preserves the incentive for them to remain in employment in circumstances where they might only be marginally better off than if they were claiming other social welfare payments. In terms of the amount of work required to qualify for FIS, the customer must be in paid...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (17 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which includes rent supplement, is administered on behalf of the department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive (HSE). The purpose of the 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...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (17 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: In late 2007, the Department identified a number of cases where non-Irish nationals were living in their native country and returning to Ireland on a monthly basis to sign for jobseekers payments. Arising from this, the Department undertook a number of small scale residency checks on non-Irish nationals in receipt of jobseekers payment. Between October 2007 and February 2008 some 766 cases...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (17 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The current Chairperson of the Pensions Board was appointed by one of my predecessors, the late Seamus Brennan, in January 2006, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by paragraph 2 (as amended by section 50 of the Pensions (Amendment) Act, 2002 (No.18 of 2002)) of the First Schedule to the Pensions Act, 1990 (No. 25 of 1990), as he was considered to be a most suitable person for the...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (17 Feb 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The Family Income Supplement (FIS) provides income support for employees on low earnings with families. This preserves the incentive to remain in employment in circumstances where the employee might only be marginally better off than if he or she were claiming other social welfare payments. FIS is calculated on the basis of 60% of the difference between the income limit for the family size...