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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Cessation (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Department was unable to offer a contract to Killenaule Parish Enterprise Company, Co. Tipperary, as this company didn’t meet the requirements as laid out by the Department. Every opportunity was given to the Company involved to meet these requirements. All CE participants with Killenaule Parish Enterprise Company have been transferred to other CE Sponsors within the area and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: I confirm that my department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person concerned on 20 April 2017. Additional information in relation to the person’s application has been requested by a deciding officer on 13 June 2017. Once the information is received the application will be processed without delay and the person concerned will be notified directly of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: An Exceptional Needs Payment in respect of funeral expenses for this customer was processed and paid on 18thApril 2017. I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is currently receiving carer’s allowance (CA) for one care recipient, with an increase for one qualified child. The weekly carer’s allowance payment the person concerned is receiving is €238.80. This payment consists of a personal rate of €209.00 and €29.80 full rate for her child. This is the maximum amount that the person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: The supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme provides assistance to eligible people in the State whose means are insufficient to meet their needs and those of their dependants. The main purpose of the scheme is to provide immediate and flexible assistance for those in need who do not qualify for payment under other State schemes. Supports provided under the SWA scheme can consist of a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: Entitlement to Back to Education allowance requires that a client is - in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment for 234 days or nine months in advance of the course commencing and - must apply for BTEA immediately before they are starting the course of education. The relevant qualifying social welfare payment in this instance is for Jobseeker’s Allowance (JA).The person...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: The person is currently repaying €30.60 per week in respect of her overpayment. Under social welfare legislation, a weekly deduction of up to 15% of the personal rate of a social welfare payment can be deducted in order to recover the debt due to my Department. In determining a recovery plan, consideration is given to the size of the debt, the cause of the debt, previous efforts...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the grounds of appeal of the person concerned were received in that office on 23rd May 2017. 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 these papers have been received from the Department, the case in question...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Payments (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is in receipt of a One Parent Family payment, this payment was reinstated on the 11th of May 2017 with any arrears due having been paid. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: The first person concerned submitted an application for an exceptional needs payment on 29/5/17 in respect of costs associated with moving in to a new social housing dwelling. The application was refused under section 190(1) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 which disqualifies persons who are in full-time employment. The partner of the person concerned is currently engaged in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: There is a legal responsibility on parents, whether married or unmarried, to maintain dependent children and on spouses/civil partners to maintain each other in accordance with their means. The issue of maintenance payments is first and foremost a private matter for the persons concerned, and if they cannot resolve the matter, for the Courts through Family Law provisions. Matters relating...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Programme for a Partnership Government contains a commitment “to introduce a PRSI scheme for the self-employed and provide a supportive tax regime for entrepreneurs and the self-employed ”. Significant progress was made on this commitment in Budget 2017. Self-employed contributors now have access to treatment benefits since last March and, from December next will have...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Applications (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned applied for their state pension (contributory) on 26th January 2017. To ensure that the Deciding Officer can be satisfied that the record upon which a person’s entitlement is based is accurate and refers to the correct individual, it is sometimes necessary to investigate certain aspects of the relevant social insurance history. This can result in a delay in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Eligibility (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: Budget 2017 fully reversed the previous cuts to the Farm Assist means tests which were introduced in Budgets 2012 and 2013. The changes mean that now 70% of farm income is assessed as means, down from 100% being assessed as means (which is equivalent to a 30% income disregard). An additional annual means disregard of €254 for each of the first two children and €381 for the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Applications (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: An application for an emergency needs payment in respect of the person concerned was refused under section 190(1) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 which disqualifies persons who are in full-time education. Supplementary Welfare rules also require claimants who are fit for work, to be available for and genuinely seeking work. If the person concerned is experiencing undue...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: The State pension (contributory) is one of the State pension schemes, and its rate of payment is related to PRSI contributions made over years into the Social Insurance Fund. As such, those who have paid more into the fund are most likely to be paid under that scheme. There are a number of criteria which must be satisfied to qualify for a State pension contributory. These include that the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: I can confirm that the person concerned has been in receipt of Carer’s Allowance (CA) with an increase of child dependant allowance for two children for several years. The person concerned was awarded an increase for an additional child from 2 February 2017. Arrears of allowance from 2 February 2017 to 3 May 2017 were issued to the nominated bank account on 11 May 2017. The person...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: I confirm that my Department received an application for carer’s allowance (CA) from the person concerned on 21 December 2016. The application was referred to a local social welfare inspector (SWI) on 30 March 2017 to assess the level of care being provided, assess means and confirm that all the conditions for receipt of carer’s allowance are satisfied. The SWI’s report...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pensions Insolvency Payments Scheme (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: Former workers who left the service of Waterford Crystal in the early 1990s received their full pension entitlements in relation to pre-1991 service under the schemes at that point. In line with the rules of the company’s pension schemes at the time and the Pensions Act, 1990, such persons had the option to choose whether to take a deferred pension in respect of full service with the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Data (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2075, 2102, 2112, 2129 and 2130 together. The full year cost of increasing the fuel allowance by €6.50 per week, from €22.50 to €29 per week, for the duration of the fuel season is estimated to be €66 million in 2018. The full year cost of increasing the living alone allowance by €6, from €9 to €15.00 per...